Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – March 11, 1984

After the prayer, I read the reports. There is a lot of excitement among the Iraqis and they promise to take back the islands. The noise of using chemical bomb has been raised with the injured people going to European countries and America has also taken a negative position in this regard - against Iraq. I got the latest status from the Najaf base; not bad

I went to the meeting tired. The budget bill is discussed. I came to my office before noon. I did the work. I rested in the afternoon. In the evening, when I came to the meeting, Mr. Yazdi had started the meeting, and I sat among the delegates and answered the delegates' requests the whole time. They did not let me be involved in the work of the parliament. A number of representatives expressed an opinion against accepting the command of the war from me, and their words were this, considering the differences between the IRGC and the army and the lack of a suitable solution to coordinate them, and considering the many tasks I have in the Majlis, the party, the Friday imam, and other matters, I should not have accepted. didn't accept If the reputation we have is not used to solve the problems of the system, what should we answer to God and conscience? They are usually satisfied with such answers.

In the evening, I went to the meeting of the central council of the [Islamic Republic] party. It has no attraction for me; They have a policy of repulsion, not attraction. At night, we went up in my car with Mr. Taheri Isfahani, who was in the president's office, and on the way, we talked about the elections in Isfahan and accepting Mr. Dari [Najafabadi]. He quoted the criticisms of some dissidents from the Khyber operation and carried a letter - in this regard - from Ayatollah Montazeri to the Imam.