Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 4, 1998

Yesterday, Haj Qasim Safaryan, cousin, informed by telephone that his elder brother, Haj Ali Agha went to visit Karbala and went missing in Samara shrine. He has not been heard from for several days and he is sick. appealed I told Akhu Mohammad, [President's Executive Vice President] to follow up. He informed, Akhvi Mahmoud, [Director General of the Middle East of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs], has followed up through our ambassador in Baghdad and the Iraqi embassy in Iran, and no correct information has been received yet. Recently, a group of Nuqi tribes in Rafsanjan have gone to Karbala via Syria. Although they were advised not to go.

Mr. [Mohammed] Hanrdost came. He works in the secretariat of the assembly, but he does not have a useful job. From Mr. [Mohsen] Rezaei, [Secretary of the Assembly] and the people of the army that he transferred there; had criticism He expects us to entrust him with a dynamic job, but we don't need it in the assembly; Because they were answered by the president's office, we have temporarily accepted that they find a job. He expressed his happiness that he came to see me on the day of the start of Agha's governorship. I didn't understand

I asked what it meant; He said, yesterday was the martyrdom of Imam [Hasan] Askari (AS) and today is the first day of Imam Zaman's vilayat. They have registered the Islamic Civilization Party and taken a place for it from the executive headquarters of the Imam's order.

[Mr. Shin Chang-bum], the new ambassador of South Korea came. I asked about the cause of South Korea's economic crisis. He mentioned three reasons: 1- Unaccounted loans from banks to companies and institutions, both of which are in crisis due to the lack of repayment power. 2- Large foreign debts of around 150 billion dollars. Exports due to the fall in the value of the national currency by 60%, the situation is moving towards normalization; If the speculators do not disturb.

[Mr. Salah Zawawi], the Palestinian ambassador came. He said the danger of the development plan of East Jerusalem from 125 hectares to 600 hectares is that it will split the occupied lands of the West Bank into two parts and the possibility of implementing the Oslo agreement will be lost. In order to prevent its implementation through the Organization of the Islamic Conference, he appealed to Iran's leadership, and emphasized on the reform of relations with Egypt, and spoke of the serious danger of cooperation between Turkey and Israel, as well as the plan of Shimon Peres.

In the evening, the members of the central council of the "Muslim Student Thought Center" came from the students of Amir Kabir University. They told me about the danger of students deviating and the weakness of Hezbollah in universities due to the extremism and aggression of nationalists and anti-provincials and asked me for help and guidance. I advised moderation and avoiding excesses. They requested to participate in their seminar.

[Mr. Hossein Kamali], Minister of Labor [and Social Affairs] came. He talked about the problems of the government, factories and workers, the delay in workers' rights due to the recession, the impossibility of producing and selling units, the reduction of overtime, the indecision of the government and the president, and political problems.

Mr. [Mohammed Reza] Nouri [Shahrudi], our ambassador in Saudi Arabia, asked me to talk to the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, who had surgery, on the phone and say hello. I greeted them and warned them to follow up on the issue of oil price reform and opposition to the plan to develop Jerusalem and make it Jewish, and I thanked them for the implementation of the agreements.

This morning, I went to Shahid Labafinejad Hospital for an eye examination due to cataracts. They confirmed the opinion of Dr. Hashemi. They said that the problems of the hospital were due to lack of credit. In the reports, Mr. Mohsen Rezaei's son's escape and his interview with anti-revolutionary radios are of interest.