Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – March 19, 1987

Radio America has started a new scandal in order to accuse other officials of Iran of financial abuse of the arms trade with the United States, but this accusation cannot be accepted, perhaps because they gave a part of the price of the weapons to the opponents of the Nicaraguan government against the law, or some people have abused themselves, or with these accusations and propaganda, they want to confuse and create ambiguity, and Iran's counter-revolution helped in this direction. I told the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to file a complaint.

Even though I still had a fever, I went to the assembly. In the public meeting, amendments were made to the budget bill to ensure the opinion of the Guardian Council. They did not find any major objections, but based on their previous theory, they considered borrowing to be against Sharia due to inflation and as a result lowering the value of people's money. After finishing the budget work, I ended the meeting and made a short speech at the end.

I worked in my office with fever and fatigue. Dr. Rouhani came for war affairs and commented that it would be better to take the rest of the Austrian cannons in case of a 25-30% discount.

In the evening Mr. Akhundzadeh Kardarman came to London. He reported and said that the influence and prestige of our revolution in England is strong. I said that he should try to bring up the issues of the Iranian abductees in relation to the [freedom of] Terry Witt in the media.

Minister of Defense and Tarabipour came. They discussed dealing with the seller of Katyusha ammunition who delivered Korean instead of Russian. Mr. [Ali Asghar] Hejazi came from the Ministry of Information. I talked about the propaganda group related to the White House scandal and information for the war. I came home at night. I am getting better. Fati said that the chastity sinus surgery was done well. We were happy. Agha Jalal sacrificed a big sheep.