Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 26, 1989

I got the news at seven in the morning and read the reports. It is not important news. I did the backlog until ten o'clock. A group of representatives of manufacturing industries came. They reported the service to the war and reconstruction and asked for the needs of the classes. They said they covered 550,000 units.

Mr. [Mohsen] Sogagara [head of Iran's Industrial Development and Modernization Organization] came. He gave a report on the status of industries covered by the Ministry of Heavy Industries and presented a plan to activate them. I told them to come up with a complete plan in coordination with the Veterans Foundation and other industrial owners, and I emphasized that my policy is to activate the industries. I married a member of parliament and a war veteran who has become blind. I did physiotherapy in the evening. Mr. Indesh came and presented a plan to activate the factories.

We had a meeting with the commanders of the army and the IRGC about the possible arrival of the Iraqi ships bought from Italy. It was decided to prevent them from entering the Persian Gulf and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be activated to prevent their delivery. In the evening, Mr. [Sidkamal] Kharazi [CEO of the Islamic Republic News Agency - IRNA] came. requested my participation in the opening ceremony of the computer center of the Islamic Republic News Agency; I said I don't have time. I came home at night. My leg pain is a little better.