Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 18, 1998

In foreign reports, the approval of the statute of the International Court for the trial of war criminals, with a high vote and despite the opposition of the United States, as well as the entry of the Troika delegation, to renew negotiations and relations with Iran, is of interest. Some express concern about the explicit support of the Westerners to Mr. [Syed Mohammad] Khatami, [President], which has aroused suspicions, but this concern has not yet found a suitable field to be widely raised. Considering that the radical forces of the past are satisfied and seem to act in harmony with western policies.

[Mr. Mohamed Saad], the Tunisian ambassador came to say goodbye. He thanked me for paying special attention to Arab countries. He also knows a little Persian. Mr. [Hossein Abdi] Abianeh, our former ambassador in Senegal, came; He has been appointed to the embassy in Ivory Coast, and after a period of disconnection, due to the establishment of relations with Israel, our relations have been renewed. He gave a report on the situation there, that half of its population of 14 million are Muslims, and nearly 100 thousand people are Shiites, mainly from Lebanon, and Iran has established schools there.

I did an interview about Shahid Rajaei; For the book that was prepared about him and is going to be published soon. In the evening, the managers of the welfare organization came. They gave a report about their new programs and the reduction of their credits; I did not see any significant points.

Mr. Engineer [Reza] Mir Mohammad Sadeghi came. Although his brothers own several factories, he applied for a job. New content, about the political case and my trial at the time

I have never heard of Taghut before. A cousin, Ashikh Mohammad [Hashemian], had described a part. Ashikh confirmed Muhammad's content that he had gone to Semnan on the order of Ayatollah [Syed Hossein] Khademi, in order to get advice for the school dean - his uncle - who was the head of the [Imperial Imperial] army's trial department, and added that after referring to his uncle, he said that the dean [Nematullah] Nasiri, the head of Savak, had told the court, according to the Shah, that Hashemi should be executed, which was supposed to be sentenced to six years on appeal. Imprisonment should be turned into execution, but his uncle, the explanations he gave to the king through the court, changed the king's opinion and gave him the authority to make a decision. He also turned six years into three years. He said, he was executed for no reason after the revolution and added that Savak had introduced my book "History of Palestine" to the Shah as very dangerous, and Timsar told the Shah that he had seen this book, that it was a translation of the book by [Mr. Akram Zaitar], the ambassador of Jordan, and that it was not dangerous for Iran.