Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – June 30, 1998

At nine o'clock in the morning, we moved to the Noor area to see the forest and mountain area between Noor and Tehran. From the city of Alameda, which has been named "Royan" for the time being, we went to the mountains and saw a part of the road under construction. It is mountainous and forested and very beautiful by the river Glendrud, and currently it has reached the town of Belde, but the main part of it is asphalt. Jihad builds construction, and this year they have not given the funds for it, and the problem has been fixed.

At a point towards "Dinkoh" village, we deviated from the main road. Efat and Ashraf [my wife's sister], who were with us, returned. At the top of the village, in a beautiful plain full of flowers, we prayed noon and evening prayers. There are two other small villages, higher up from there to Alborz ridge. Mr. [Hasan] Khoyd, our guard, is familiar with that part of the region because of the presence of his wife's relatives there, and he brought us here.

The car carrying food and water had lost its way and did not arrive. We decided to go back and eat on the way after finding the car. In addition, fog covered the area and limited visibility. It was also drizzling. On the way back, we talked to a few people in the village. A farmer and a contractor who is building the same road and said that he works on credit due to lack of credit. The official of Jihad said that he is a war veteran and was injured in the Karbala Panj operation. I had seen them before.

[Mr. Sheikh Mufid Fayazi], Imam Juma Noor and his father [Mr. Sheikh Hossein Fayazi], who are originally from this village and had come to this place for the summer, stopped us and asked us to go to their house; I accepted We went to their house. It was not a bad village house. There were also family members, women and children. I said hello. They brought butter, honey and yogurt; The companions ate. They said that in the summer, about a thousand people are in the village and in the winter they go to the city and only about a hundred people stay. People's jobs are livestock and beekeeping.

Mr. Fayazi said, he has several sons. One of them, who was a student, went missing in the 5th Karbala operation, and his other sons are working in Jihad, etc., and one of them is a Friday imam and is studying in Noor Madrasa. The people of the village gathered and expressed their feelings.

On the way back, we saw the food truck and completed the half-baked lunch on the way. Until Ramsar, I listened to Mr. Karbaschi's court negotiation with the car radio. In the accusations, two cases were related to Mr. [Abdullah] Nouri, the deposed minister of the country, and no clear answer was given; Because it was not mentioned before and they were surprised. Mr. [Ali Mohammad] Basharti, the former Minister of Interior, was also summoned and gave a good explanation. The legitimacy and legality of some of the mayor's works was with his permission, which he accepted manfully.

In the evening in Ramsar, I swam in the sea. We went by boat to the far shore and from there I swam to the shore; About a kilometer. For the past two days, I had not swum because the sea was stormy.

Today, the American planes launched a missile at the Iraqi missile center, which did not hit. The pretext of the attack is the claim of locking the radars of the Iraqi defense base on American planes. This conflict caused fluctuations in oil prices.

The tension between [Benyamin Netanyahu], the Prime Minister and [Ezer] Weizmann, the President of Israel, is high. Weizman has accused Netanyahu of being an obstacle to peace, taking Israel to the side of danger, and saying that he has abused himself by promising to withdraw to Egypt and Jordan through him, but did not do so, and defamed him. He has demanded early elections.

In University of Tehran, Tahkeem Vahdat office held a ceremony to appreciate Mr. [Abdullah] Nouri. They have given harsh slogans against the Majlis, the radio and Mr. [Ali Akbar] Natiq Nouri, [Majlis Speaker] and demanded the dissolution of the Majlis.