Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – March 17, 1993

On the way to the office, we went to the opening of the MRI department of the Imam Relief Committee. With my help, they have opened a private department with doctors. Chastity also came. They explained. I did a short interview.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Mr. [Mortaza] Al-Vairi, [Secretary of the Supreme Council of Free Trade Zones] came. He gave remarks about the economic decisions based on the single rate of the currency. He gave the report of the trip to Chabahar and the establishment of its free zone and the news of the start of research on other free zones. Regarding the events related to Mr. Montazeri and the dismissal of Mr. [Mohsen] Mehralizadeh, [head of Kish Azad Region], he expressed his sadness.

Ambassadors of France and New Zealand came to say goodbye. Mr. Heydar Aliyev, the president of Nakhchivan, came and thanked for the help and asked for the continuation of the help, and he spoke about the inexperience and weakness of the People's Front, and specifically Mr. [Abulfazl] Ilchi Bey, [President of Azerbaijan] and the establishment of the party on his behalf in Baku. I promised to continue helping and building the gas pipeline.

Fati afternoon came. He took fifty thousand tomans to give an Eid. Mr. [Hamid] Mirzadeh, [executive deputy of the president] came and informed that Mr. Yazdan Panah has been made the CEO of Kish Azad Region.

In the evening, the government board had a meeting. Regulations and immediate approvals were approved. Government members, advisers, deputies and families were my guests at Iftar. I gave their children five hundred tomans each. After the congregational prayer, they dispersed. They asked me to speak for them, I refused and regretted it later. Fati and Mehdi were in the ceremony. Chastity was in Qom and Yaser and Faeza were not there.