Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – May 7, 1982

I stayed at home until 10:30. A group of war-wounded from the Martyrs' Hospital came. One person claimed to have seen Imam Mahdi, who healed his foot after it was amputated. He said that although a mortar round had hit his foot and shattered the bones, it is not clear how it was healed, because Imam Mahdi healed the foot after it was amputated. I need to look into this.

I participated in the Friday prayers. The first sermon was about the virtues of Ali (AS), and the second sermon addressed the issues of the day, including the progress of the war and the difficult situation of the Ba'athist government and the hypocrites [MKO]. At the beginning of the speech, they announced that the second phase of the Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas had started west of the Karun River, and we have reached the border in an area twenty kilometers wide and will head towards Shalamcheh .

In the afternoon, Ahmad Agha came to our house and reported that the Iraqis had launched a counterattack and we had retreated north of Khorramshahr . I followed up on the matter by phone, and it turned out that it was not very serious and would be compensated for tonight.