Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – January 6, 1998

We also had good snow last night. I saw the reports. We had a scary plane accident that went well. The Fokker plane was coming from Urmia to Tehran with more than 100 passengers. Because of the bad weather, he could not sit; He went to Isfahan and it was not possible to land there either. 12 km from Isfahan airport, in a farm; It is not clear why? Alhamdulillah, no one was hurt.

Mr. [Ali] Abdul Ali Zadeh, Minister of Housing and Urban Development, came and asked for my opinion on the issue of changing the capital. I told the records that in the previous investigations, it was considered that it should be in Letian and it was approved by the government, but with the current situation of Tehran, which is built, it may not be necessary. He said, they have taken the policy of building new cities seriously.

Mr. [Ishaq] Jahangiri, Minister of Industries and Mines came. He told about the situation of the steel, copper, zinc, lead, gold, aluminum and mining industries and the work problems and asked me to tell the central bank to treat him better.

Akhvi Mohammad, [executive vice president] came. He said the status of [the party's] brokers' discussions and the state of the government. Mohsen, [the head of my office], came for iftar programs and meetings. In the evening, [members of the central council of the party] construction agents, Mr. [Mohammed Ali] Najafi, [Mohsen] Nourbakhsh, [Mustafa] Hashemi Taba, [Reza] Amrollahi, [Gholamohsein] Karbaschi, [Abdullah] Nouri, [Ishaq] Jahangiri, Ali [Hashmi Behrmani], Faeza [Hashmi Behrmani], [Ataullah] Mohajerani and Akhvi Mohammad came and consulted about the registration and formality of it. they did They suggested [participating in mid-term elections and] my going to parliament. They talked more about the economic situation of the government and the risk of recession. Iftar was my guest.