Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – May 21, 1988

I went to the parliament at half past eight. [Mr. Gholamreza Aghazade [oil minister came. He consulted for the trip to the south of the Persian Gulf and Indonesia, and announced the testing of the liquid fuel rocket engine and its launch by oil experts, and the transfer of the Lark oil terminal to Jask was negotiated. Relationships were discussed. I said that Japanese politics is influenced by American politics. As a member of the UN Security Council, he asked about our latest opinion regarding Resolution 598, which I said is that we have reached an understanding with [Mr. Xavier Pérez Decoyar] the Secretary General and they are hoping for peace more than in the past, and he claimed that we are a few steps closer to peace. On behalf of the Americans, he brought a message of goodwill and desire to solve the problems of relations between us and them, and I said that the first step of actions is to show goodwill on the part of the United States.

The Italian ambassador came. It looks lively and active. He said about the development of relations and neutrality in war. I pointed out the negative and positive points of their policy. The Polish ambassador came. While expressing his satisfaction with the good relations, he gave explanations about the recent strikes in Poland and claimed that they were much lighter than the strikes of 1980 and 1981 and they are over.

In the afternoon, Mr. [Mustafa [Foumani] Haeri] our ambassador in the UAE came. Reported the trip to Bahrain. He claims that the Emir of Bahrain was very humble towards him during that trip and is interested in improving relations, and that their main displeasure is the activities of the Bahrain Writing Organization headed by Madrassi in Tehran, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has assigned them to a similar trip to Kuwait.

In the evening, Mr. Gholamabas Zaeri came for the administrative affairs of the parliament. Mr. Saeed al-Zhakrin came for the ceremony of the end of this period and the beginning of the next period of the parliament. [Mahmoud] Mohadi, our ambassador came to Brazil. He talked about Brazil's extensive economic relations with Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and their desire to develop economic relations with Iran and explained the fields of relations development, the purchase of oil in exchange for goods made in Brazil.

Mr. Saeedi, the IRGC's information protection officer, came and lamented the problems and ambiguity in the security relations with the IRGC command and sought solutions. Mr. [Mohammed] Farzpour, the new representative of Astara, who was also a lawyer in the first term, came to consult on the future policy and express his support.

After Maghrib prayer and doing office work, I went to the meeting of the heads of forces in the prime minister's office. Officials of government punishments came. They appealed to solve the problems caused by Note 35 of this year's budget, which has limited their powers. The Ministry of Information was authorized to pursue some disturbing nationalists and to continue the process of following the messages of the Americans regarding the cessation of hostilities. It was discussed and permission was given to the ministry.