Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 31, 1991

Domestic and foreign doctoral level students and senior experts came. Dr. [Mustafa] Moin, [Minister of Culture and Higher Education] reported. On the occasion of Muharram, they mourned. I spoke to them in detail and explained the situation in the country.

Mr. [Gholamabas] Zairi, the representative of Bandar Abbas, came. He complained to [Mr. Ahmad Khorram], the governor [of Hormozgan]. He criticized the extremists and appealed to Hormozgan. Dr. [Ali] Enayat, representative of Khorramabad, came. He criticized the governor of the [Lorestan] province and demanded to speed up my trip to the province. He asked us not to make anything else expensive before the elections.

Mr. [Gasem Mehrzad] Sadekiani, the representative of Selmas, came. He justified his positions and demanded that I personally not answer the criticisms and leave it to the ministers. [The extremists] are worried about the words of the last two Friday sermons. Mr. [Saeed] Rajaei Khorasani came. As usual, he criticized the extremists and demanded to prevent inflation before the elections. He also had suggestions.

Dr. Velayati, [Minister of Foreign Affairs] came. He gave the report of the trip to Pakistan and explained the trip of the Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is happy with the agreement on the Afghanistan issue. [Mr. Ali Al-Attas], the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia came to meet. Most of the negotiations were about cooperation for Islamic, regional and global issues.

In the evening, I did not go to the meeting of the government board to complete the backlog. I worked until half past seven. Mr. [Syed Mansour] Razavi, my deputy, came and explained about the reforms he wanted in the country's administrative and employment affairs organization; These reforms have been opposed by its managers. I went to the dentist last night to get a night guard. They also filled a tooth. I came home There was no one at home. I had ready dinner.

In the reports, the agreement [George Bush and Gorbachev], the presidents of the United States and the Soviet Union, in limiting nuclear weapons and discovering new chemical warehouses in Iraq, which was not included in Iraq's declaration to the United Nations, draws attention.