Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 4, 1990

I reached my office at half past eight in the morning. Earthquake experts came along with the president of Tehran University and Mr. Mirzadeh and gave explanations for obtaining facilities to strengthen the field of seismology and to carry out safety measures for buildings. I promised to help. They use the opportunity to solve the shortage of related fields. Officials of Baath Publishing Foundation came. They gave explanations for their services and asked for help for the development of the work.

Mr. [Hossein] Kamali, [Minister of Labor and Social Affairs] came. He gave the report of the World Labor Congress in Geneva and said that our situation has improved in international forums because of the government's positions, and expressed his satisfaction with the selection of Iran as the head of the resolution drafting commission, and complained about the lack of cooperation of Bangladesh.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay came and brought the message of their president; It was a formal meeting. Mohsen [Hashmi, head of the presidential inspection office] came and reported about Qazvin glass. He is going to Azerbaijan to investigate the situation of Aras River. It has been reported that construction of Aras beach is progressing slowly.

The government board had a meeting. The discussion was about the reconstruction policy of the earthquake affected areas. For temporary accommodation, we have to pay 20 thousand tomans to each family to build a room. We allocated two billion tomans for this. For the construction of permanent housing, it was decided that it should be earthquake-proof and that the people would build it themselves by granting a loan.

I worked in my office until midnight and came home. On the occasion of Mehdi's marriage, a gift suitcase was brought to him from the brotherhood house of the late Haj Qasim.