Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – July 7, 1998

[Mr. Abdullah Al-Ahmar], Speaker of the Yemeni Parliament and his companions came. We talked about the cultural, Islamic and historical commonalities and the need to prevent the implementation of Israel's plan to expand the Judaization of East Jerusalem. He said, it is only Iran that can be the flag bearer of this struggle.

Mr. Seyyed Taha Hashemi, representative of Qom, came. He talked about the growth of differences and factional conflicts and the lack of a plan of the right wing and the weakness of their planning and the breaking of leadership power, the bad economic situation and lack of planning of the government, the losses of the Tehran Mayor's Court, the weaknesses of leadership representatives in the universities, the weakness of the leadership office, and concern about the leadership's boredom, and he asked me to take action to create sympathy among the movement and especially to prevent sedition in the elections of experts and help the leadership work.

Mr. [Gholamreza] Farozesh came and talked about the stagnation of the country and the indecision of the government and the deterioration of the situation and political blackmail and quoted Dr. [Hasan] Habibi, [First Vice President], that they have not made a decision during this time and consulted with a party that a group of managers are trying to establish.

Mr. Engineer [Behzad Mohaghegh] Hazrati, [CEO of Arsa Construction Company], one of the experts

Dam building came. He informed about obtaining the technology of constructing deep shafts from above the mines or tunnels and asked me to tell Mr. [Gholamreza] Aghazadeh, [head of the Atomic Energy Organization], to entrust the construction of the shafts of the uranium mines of Sagand to them; We have already told Ukrainian companies that they have not taken any action and that they are going to sell their equipment to their company, and also about getting the technology of making asphalt cores for earthen dams in places where continuous rains prevent the implementation of Russian cores - such as the North.

In the evening Mr. [Safar Murad] Niyazov, the President of Turkmenistan and a group of his deputies and ministers came. He talked about the situation of his country, the region and Russia, and the news of the agreement between Russia and Kazakhstan regarding the division of the Caspian Sea, which is against our opinion, and asked me to go on a trip to Turkmenistan.

Mehdi came and gave a report on possible gas transmission lines in the region. At the end of the night, Fazeh came and brought the zero issue of Zan newspaper and consulted; I gave notices.