Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – May 9, 1990

After prayer, I worked until nine o'clock at night. [Mr. Wan Li], Chairman of the Chinese People's Congress

The meeting came. The negotiations were friendly; He is very old and weak. He was a little worried about the future events of China following the developments of Marxism.

Mr. [Bijan Namdar] Zanganeh, [Minister of Energy] came. He talked about the amount of water from the Lar dam against the needs of Mazandaran and Tehran and made a proposal to share the available water. I accepted The people of Mazandaran want more water to grow rice, and we don't have enough water due to the escape of part of the water from the dam.

We had a review meeting on the Bahmanshir issue; After long negotiations, it was decided to dredge and create a port in the Choibedeh area, and to implement the plan to improve the irrigation of palm trees. The Ministry of Energy was against dredging all of Bahmanshir, and we reached an agreement.

In the afternoon, Mr. [Hossein] Sheikh al-Islam, [Deputy for Arabic and African Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs] came. He was going to Syria. He inquired about the negotiable issues with Mr. Hafez Assad [President of Syria]. Dr. [Hadi] Manafi came to examine my back, along with Dr. [Majid] Sami, a neurosurgeon, and the result was good and he said it is nothing important, it needs care. He told about his services to Iranians in Germany and his frequent visits to Iran for education; I thanked He is optimistic about the future of Iranian medicine.

I didn't go to the government meeting in the evening to do things. I came home at night.