Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – June 17, 1985

I worked in my office until eight in the morning. I read the reports. Iraq is silent about the Quds operation. Although it is a blow, the world has not reacted much. I presided over a part of the public meeting, then handed it over to Mr. [Mohammed] Yazdi and went to Mr. [Ayatollah] Khamenei's office.

In a four-hour meeting, the air force commanders explained the situation of the air force and its offensive and defensive capabilities. As usual, the enemy's capabilities are many and the internal capabilities are shown to be weak, which is true to some extent. They said so from the beginning. Because the east and west and reactionary camps provide the needs of the Iraqi Baath and do not provide our facilities that they have, and there was always this concern.

In the evening, the assembly unit of the Islamic Republic Party had a meeting. I told Imam's opinions about the party and the decision of the central council about turning off the party's light and reducing the activities, and I gave explanations about the war and asked the representatives not to use political and group goals during the fluctuations of the war and not to weaken the commanders. I was referring to the Isfahan line, which uses the existing conditions against the IRGC commanders, and it seems that they have prepared a letter signed by about a hundred representatives for Mr. Montazeri.

Mounir Shafiq and Sheikh Asad Tamimi, former Friday imams of al-Aqsa Mosque, came and talked about the Palestinian war and Amal organization in Lebanon. The Palestine Liberation Organization makes a lot of political use of the current situation in Lebanon. I came home after breaking the fast.