Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – March 21, 1988

I went to Imam's office at eight in the morning. Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah [Mousavi] Ardabili came according to the previous appointment. We went to the Imam. We asked them to use the shelter that was made for them near their house in times of danger. They are not ready to go to the shelter because they consider it a weak possibility that a rocket will hit their house. Our arguments were not ineffective, but they did not make serious promises either. They said that the missile that hit the Farmaniye region at 11:30 last night had a terrible sound.

Then we negotiated about the by-laws of the Assembly for the Recognition of Governmental Interests. They have not signed this regulation yet. They said that the work path may be complicated and long. It is necessary to go back and forth between the Guardian Council and the Parliament. Finally, it was decided to include a sentence in the text of the resolution that, if approved, the assembly can put the issue on its agenda at any stage.

I told the imam some of the strange actions that I had seen from the "Qadiriya" dervish during Baneh's trip. They also said that they had seen such scenes in their youth; It is both the possibility of dexterity and vision and the possibility of the emergence of spiritual powers. Then, in the imam's office, we consulted on the text desired by the imam and suggested a text.

We returned home. A group of security guards came to visit Eid. Mashhadi Rajab also came and took Eid and explained about the rocket that landed near his house last night. The rocket hit destroyed two or three houses and killed seven or eight people and several sheep [were lost]. I have already given the Eid of the protectors; I usually give a thousand tomans to each of them every year.

Efat, Fatemeh, Faizeh, Saeed and their children went to the railway station at one o'clock in the afternoon to take the train to Rafsanjan. Mohsen has already left; Mehdi and Yaser are also in the front. Efat ordered me to ask about their condition and inform him. The army commanders wanted to come for the Eid ceremony.

At 4:30 in the afternoon, the Iraqi missile reached Tehran. From the sound of it, it seemed to have exploded in space; Because I am currently writing my memoirs, I have not yet received the news about the fate of the missile. After an hour, it became known that it hit a residential area in the Abu Dhar Blvd area [in the east of Tehran] and killed 9 people and injured 16 people.

Mohsen, who was coming to Tehran from Rafsanjan, informed Nain that between Yazd and Nain, a severe sandstorm blew and broke all the car windows and many cars were damaged. That's why he stays the night in Nain to fix the car.

Ahmed came at night. We consulted about the text that the imam wanted to add to the by-laws of the assembly. Our opinion was that after the approval of the parliament and the first opinion of the Guardian Council and regarding the important issues of the country, we should act with permission from the Imam in each case. Mr. Mousavi Ardabili and Mr. Khamenei [the heads of the judiciary and the executive] were also consulted by phone; They also accepted.

Mr. [Syed Reza [Zavarei] candidate for Tehran People's Representative], complained by phone that the executive board rejected his candidacy.