Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – June 28, 1998

At nine o'clock in the morning, we drove to Ramsar. Efat and Ashraf, [my wife's sister] were also there. Kandavan tunnel was closed for repair. We went from the mountain road to the top of the tunnel; It is very clean and green and it is the source of the water of the Karaj River. From Marzan Abad, we went to Kalardasht and crossed the forest road of Abbas Abad. Part of the road is paved; It was made with help from outside my program and it seems that they are not helping recently.

We arrived at Ramsar residence at two o'clock in the afternoon. The weather is cloudy and the sea is stormy and the sea water has receded a little compared to the previous year. At the end of the night, Fati and Yasir and their family members also arrived. They had moved late; We were a little worried.

He spent the evening and night studying reports and history of Iran. The assassination of a singer from the Berber clan in Algeria has provoked the Berbers, who make up a quarter of the Algerian population, and chant slogans of discrimination, oppression, and non-Arabism.

In the evening, all of a sudden, the sound of a crowd of crickets from the trees of the residence filled the space, and no matter how much we searched, we did not find even one of them; To the extent that some of the companions claimed, the trees themselves make noise! The intensity of the sound is so high that I forgot the ringing in my ears recently.

The Ceyhan and Adana earthquakes in Türkiye, which resulted in the deaths of more than a hundred people and injured more than a thousand people with a magnitude of 6.3, are among the notable reports.