Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – May 24, 2003

In the meeting of the Assembly [Determining the Expediency of the Nizam], we resolved the problem of Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Qom, which was the subject of a dispute between the Parliament and the Guardian Council, and we decided that the government should pay four billion tomans for the debts and obligations and claims of the Fatemieh Institute, and the hospital should be handed over to the government for rehabilitation.  Even though the matter was settled with a compromise, in the afternoon Mr. [Mohammed Ali] Sharai and [Mohsen] Rafiqdoost, [members of the hospital's board of trustees] came to take care of it, and I told them that the resolution will not be returned. 
In the evening, Mr. Dr. [Hadi] Menafi, [Head of Mehr Hospital] and Dr. [Mohammed] Vafai came and asked for the support association for kidney patients and said that they have trained specialist nurses to serve them from personal facilities.
In Afghanistan, people protested against America for killing several Afghans and said death to America and demanded their departure from the country and the trial of American soldiers.  A group in front of the Iranian embassy demanded amnesty for Afghan prisoners in Iran.
In Iraq, [Paul Bremer], the US governor, is pushing for more dominance by disbanding the army, police, security and intelligence forces, and the Baath Party.  It is not known what they will do with all these unemployed people.  claimed that a truck carrying 35 tons of gold bars was taken near Syria. 
In Spain, about 30 people in opposition to the war policy of America and their country protested completely naked in the streets, which had a very ugly scene and a bomb exploded that left a group of people injured.
The meeting of the foreign ministers of the eight industrialized countries of the world has asked Iran to remove the suspicion of secrecy by accepting the Additional [Protocol] 93+2 of the International Atomic Energy Agency.  In Saudi Arabia, the government has dismissed a group of critical Friday imams and has revised the Islamic curriculum of schools to satisfy America's opinion.
Today, floods have occurred in several cities of Khorasan, Ardabil, etc., and there have been casualties.  Rainfall in this season is low.  It was said that a mushroom weighing 13 kilos and one and a half meters in diameter was found in the mountains of Tabriz city.
This year, the Doom Khordadites did not have a ceremony like the previous years [to commemorate the second of Khordad, the anniversary of the victory presidential election], and Mr. [Syed Mohammad] Khatami gave a detailed statement that was criticized by extreme leftist forces and foreigners and interpreted it as a retreat in positions.  to resign