Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 16, 1988

I went to the parliament at half past seven in the morning. I did some of the backlog of travel days. At half past nine, Mr. [Mahdi [Karoubi], [Asadullah [Bayat] and] Abd al-Wahed] Mousavi came to Lari. The war was negotiated; They are worried.

At ten o'clock, the members of the board of the assembly of verse experts [Ali [Meshkini], [Abrahim [Amini], [Mohammed [Moman] and] Hassan [Tahiri] Khorramabadi] came to my office. I left them alone and went to a group meeting of representatives who wanted to know the situation of the war and their duty in relation to the current situation. I made a detailed speech and told the problems of war to prepare their mental ground to accept peace. I said worrying things about the war situation, but I didn't say the worse things that existed.

I returned to my office. We discussed the schedule of expert meetings. After noon prayer, Dr. Rouhani came. I told him the news of the Imam's agreement with the end of the war and we discussed the affairs of the war. Mr. [Mohammed Javad] Larijani came in the evening. We negotiated with him about the quality of acceptance of Resolution 598. I went to the meeting of the assembly of experts. Work started as usual.

Mr. Mohammad Hashemian [representative of Wali Faqih and Imam Juma Rafsanjan [and several others] opposed in the meeting with the presence of Mr. [Mortaza] Fahim Kermani; Because the Imam said in the decree of pardon that he should not participate in political affairs. It was supposed to be resolved peacefully. I returned to my office and then went to the general staff meeting. The defense lines and the general strategy of the war were discussed. I said that the headquarters can also talk about the principle of the continuation of the war.

I went to the president's office. I spoke about the war in the group of experts who participated in the president's banquet and told them the same words of the representatives' meeting in order to lay the groundwork for the end of the war and to acquaint them with the facts.

Then we had another meeting with the heads of the forces and Ahmad Agha. Ahmad Agha announced that the imam has written materials for tomorrow's meeting and has agreed to a ceasefire and has warned extremists from expressing opposition. This article minimizes the internal problems of accepting the ceasefire. We discussed the quality of tomorrow's meeting and the acceptance of the resolution. I arrived home at twelve o'clock at night. There were no children. They had gone to the wedding ceremony of Maryam Marashi and Mehdi Hashemian.