Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi - March 6, 2003

Holding Friday prayers and listening to Javad Maghsoudi's report on the weaknesses and complaints of the pilgrims (certainly the respected audience will remember the narration of these days and the efforts of Mohammad Hossein Rezaei, Sheikh Mohammad Mohammadi Rayshahri and others, which led to the dissolution of the Awqaf, Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization in violation of the law, or even the amendment of the law approved by the parliament by the Supreme Administrative Council and the announcement of other wishes of Ayatollah Khamenei to other officials from the memories of Mr. Seyyed Mehdi). Read Imam Jamarani, it is bitter)

Full text of the diary:

I went to the University of Tehran to offer Friday prayers. I gave a sermon on patience and a sermon on the events of the week, including Muharram and the issues of Iraq. Mr. [Javad] Maghsoudi, [the head of Tehran's Friday Prayer Headquarters] spoke about the many weaknesses of the Hajj administration. This year, the complaints of pilgrims are high.

At 9:30 p.m., the UN Security Council is currently meeting to hear the reports of the inspectors and to consider the U.S. and British plans [to authorize a military invasion of Iraq].

In Pakistan, there have been conflicting reports about the arrest of [Osama] bin Laden, [the leader of the al-Qaeda group], and his two sons, which seems to be the result of the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Following the interception of a U.S. surveillance plane over the Sea of Japan by four North Korean fighters, the U.S. has sent 24 fighter jets to the South Pacific island of Guam.