Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – May 31, 1995

We had good rain last night and today. There were destructive floods in several cities. From home, we went to visit the materials and energy research center in Meshkin Abad, Karaj. Mr. [Hossein] Mahluji, [Minister of Mines and Metals] was also with me from home. On the way, we negotiated about the huge center that the former Soviet Union built in Kyrgyzstan for the production of silicon, which remained unfinished and was recently offered to Iran to complete it. Mr. Mahluji came to use the experience in the research center that exists in this regard.

I opened a silicon crystal production line. Its pilot was given to Iran by the Americans before the revolution, but it fell in the valley and part of it was damaged and part of it was not given because of the revolution. They have recently completed it and started working on it. The silicon wafers they produce have a high added value and are used to make semiconductor parts in the military industry, the Ministry of Defense and the Electronic Industry Center. From synthetic ruby ​​pilots and ceramics and gold water colors and... We visited Dr. Mozafarzadeh and Dr. Hashemi reported and I spoke in encouragement and support.

From there, we went to visit the Fajr 3 project, a small four-seater plane built in cooperation with the ministries of information, road and transportation, and defense. There, they gave explanations about other works of the Defense Research Institute, such as the construction of submarines and craft and copying (PC7) and the design of training jets, etc. We visited the aircraft manufacturing workshop and saw its flight at the Mehrabad airport with a good pilot's acrobat show.

In the evening, in the meeting of the government board, we had some resolutions. Mr. [Hamid] Mirzadeh, [Executive Vice President], reported on his trip to China. An important agreement has been signed in the fields of metro, cement, shipping, trade, etc. We went to the shrine of Shah Abdulazim. We visited the parts under construction. I opened the newly built porticos that connect the late Imamzadeh Hamzah, Shah Abdulazim and Imamzadeh Taher. In the audience, Mr. [Mohammadi] Roimhari, [Tawlit Astan Hazrat Abdul Azim Hosni (pbuh)] thanked me for my help and I gave a short speech.

We came to the house. Mr. [Syed Ali] Ghiori, [Imam Juma Shahrari], sat in my car and on the way, he criticized the ceremony of acquittal from polytheists and the exile of Mr. [Sheikh Abbas] Yazidi from Najafabad and the leadership office. Statistics of relief works and collection and spending of funds of Sharia and Bariya funds. I told him to pay one month's tuition on my behalf to the students there.