Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – May 22, 1988

I reached the parliament at seven in the morning. We did not have anything important in the reports. The tone of the western media towards Iran has been moderated and the unofficial messages coming from America and England show the signs of their decreasing sensitivity or their desire to melt the ice of relations, but one should not be optimistic.

After the meeting started, I went back to my office to do the current work. In the afternoon, Mr. [Sidhasan [Shojaei] Kiasari [the representative of Sari] came for the herd because of the opposition of the regional officials. Voted. Mr.] Gholamabas] Zari came for the affairs of the parliament.

In the evening, Dr. Velayati came to consult about Lebanon and Afghanistan and the quality of dealing with Western and French messages; His assessment of the current situation is also positive, and the American Democrats and Republicans are both trying to gain satisfaction, and Dr. Terry Waite, Bishop of the English Church of Canterbury, also wrote to me and asked me to invite the British parliamentary delegation to strengthen relations, and Canada is also within the scope of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' actions.

[Khatam al-Anbiya] camp had a meeting to review the defense priorities and the Lark issue and to provide the currency needed by the defense, which was fruitful. Dr. Rouhani came. We negotiated about the General Staff of the General Command and he was allowed to participate in the naval exercise with Ayatollah Khamenei. [Mr. Mirhossein Mousavi] The Prime Minister wrote a letter to the President and announced that he has no intention of presenting the Cabinet to the Parliament and asked them to think of another Prime Minister. Many problems in the way of the country's affairs and few powers are the reason for this decision; It is unlikely to be accepted.

I came home at night. We talked a bit with Mohsen, who has returned from a trip to Germany. He had gone to buy rocket raw materials and he did his job well. is satisfied The purchase amount was high, but the number of them was large and each from the same place, so it took a long time. But he said that he has secured all the necessary items for the construction of at least 40 research samples and sent them to Iran from there, so he will have a great speed in completing the construction of the 130 km missile from Baghdad. He wanted about two million secured loans through the IRGC Ministry.