Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – January 8, 1995

[Mr. Ahmad Birbikram], the Minister of Communications of Bangladesh came. He brought the letter of Mrs. [Khaleda Zia], the Prime Minister. He said that the economic situation of his country has improved in the last few years and he claims that they are going through the problem of opposing parties. Several cases of cooperation with Iran are on the order of negotiations. He demanded that we give work permits to Bangladeshi workers who work in Iran; There are about six thousand people.

Mr. Ahmed Jibreel, [the leader of the People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine] came. He provided an analysis of the situation of the Palestinian issue. Optimistically believes that the movement of [Yasser] Arafat, [the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization], is weakening and Hamas is gaining strength. He expressed his satisfaction with the policy of Hafez Assad and Syria and said that he has not changed any procedure towards the Palestinians who are against peace in Syria.

In the evening, I managed part of the meeting of the government board. I was the guest of the leader. We talked about the statements of Syrian Foreign Minister Farooq Al-Shora, and the assessment of the Palestinian peace issue, which has stagnated, and the Alexandria summit, which is a new movement in the Arab world and is useless, and about Chechnya and Russia, and the issue of the martyrdom of Nahaja commanders in the plane crash and the succession of Timsar Sattari and the extremists of the Court of Accounts, as well as the removal of the ijtihad clause from [the qualifications for the post] of the Minister of Intelligence, which Ayatollah Khamenei also agrees to remove. became

I stayed in my office at night. I spoke on the phone with my sister Fatima about her father's condition and the topic of their trip to Mecca for Umrah.