Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – March 26, 1994

I went to my office in the morning. I had little work and they didn't even set an appointment. I had a short meeting with the managers of the office to greet and encourage and accept their offer to help me with my work. Salmani came for correction; I gave him two thousand tomans.

In the evening, the members of the government came to visit Eid. Each of them had a brief description of the Eid trip; Usually, a comment about the region to be traveled, which in some cases, led to making decisions; Such as the better use of the troubled lake of Shiraz and the necessity of not closing the historical, recreational and cultural centers during the holidays for tourists to visit.

Mr. [Gholamreza] Aghazadeh, [Oil Minister], informed by phone from Geneva that Saudi Arabia has made the decision difficult for OPEC with its stubbornness; Although all the members agree to correct the price from four to six percent by helping oil production, and other non-OPEC oil producing governments have officially announced that they will reduce their production by 300,000 barrels per day, Saudi Arabia opposes; Maybe by order of America or because of hurting Iran. I talked about this over the phone with Ayatollah Khamenei in Mashhad, and we also talked with Dr. Velayati. We did not reach a conclusion.

I came home at night. Mahdi, Farishte, Faiza, his children, and Hamid [Lahoti], also Muhammad's brotherhood and his family came for dinner and at the end of the night.

The calendar in which I had written my memories until yesterday was not as good as this calendar, so I changed the calendar from today. Due to the previous deadline, there was little space to write Friday's memories; I have to rewrite the last few pages.