Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 6, 1987

I went to the public meeting at half past seven in the morning. I stayed in the meeting until ten o'clock. The continuation of the discussion on the merger bill of the Ministry of Agriculture and Jihad was discussed. After breathing, I came to my office and did not return to the meeting. Although I was expected to participate in the voting in such an important discussion, but it seems to me that the bill will not be voted and I did not have a vote either; I refused. The result is not clear and the discussions did not remove the doubts. If I stayed and did not vote in favor, the rejection of the bill would be attributed to my non-voting. The bill to merge the Ministry of Agriculture and Construction Jihad was rejected; The government and Jihad were very confused.

In the afternoon, Imam Juma came to the city of Babak. In order to open the Islamic Azad University, he [requested] a discount in the advance payment of the residents' aid, which was to be distributed, and he also applied for a glass factory to the city of Babak. He consulted to stay there, or to go to Qom. Colonel [Mustafa] Torabi came in the evening. A group of counter-revolutionary pilots reported that they had a relationship with Reza Pahlavi and were trapped. He said the problem of counter-revolutionary soldiers in the fronts and the plan to solve the problem.

Mr. Saeedi, in charge of IRGC information protection, came. He gave a report on some of the discovered cases of conspiracies and complained about the lack of coordination between the commanders of the IRGC and the protection and said about the plan to control the counter-revolutionary soldiers. In the evening, I read the reports in my office. I went home at night.