Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi - November 16, 2001

Meeting with Jalal Namini, the new ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran on the eve of his mission to North Korea
The budget plan of the Headquarters for Combating Narcotics in the meeting of the Expediency Council after the proposal of the Supreme National Security Council
Hashemi consulted with Seyyed Mohammad Khatami and followed up on his trip to New York
Full text of the diary:
At the meeting of the Expediency Council, the budget of the Headquarters for Combating Narcotics was discussed, and its proposal came from the Supreme National Security Council. It was decided that the revenues would go to the treasury account and the government would see it in the annual budget and the headquarters would monitor its expenditure. Part of the time was spent discussing the present and future conditions of Afghanistan and the disagreement between the United Front and the Westerners over the future government, and the continuation of the government of [Burhanuddin] Rabbani was preferred.
After the meeting, we talked with Mr. [Mohammad] Khatami, [the president], about his trip to New York and his negotiations with the Supreme Leader. He said that they asked about his statement that if the Palestinians accept the recognition of Israel, Iran will also accept it, and apparently they did not agree.  
In the afternoon [Mr. Jalal Namini Miyanji], our new ambassador to North Korea came and said, "You have been the founder and supporter of your relations with North Korea, and he asked me to continue supporting the development of relations, and he said that relations are now stagnant in non-military affairs, and the reason for this is Korea's debt of several hundred million dollars to Iran, which it does not seem to want to repay." Korea does not have the same motivations as it did in the past in the hope of getting closer to the United States and Iran because it did not have the needs of the early days of the revolution and the defense period.

Burhanuddin Rabbani, [the president of the Mujahideen government], arrived in Kabul today and gave a press interview at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and said that he is here as the head of state. It had previously been announced that he would not come to Kabul and that the United States was against his arrival. He has opposed the arrival of foreign military forces in Afghanistan. Yesterday, 100 British soldiers were stationed at Bagram airport under the pretext of providing security for the rescue forces. It has been announced that 60 French soldiers will also go to Mazar-e-Sharif.
Contradictory statements about the Taliban's withdrawal from Kandahar continue, and the Taliban's representative in Pakistan announced that [Osama] bin Laden, [the leader of al-Qaeda], has left Afghanistan, which the United States does not believe. The problem of managing eastern Afghanistan, after the Taliban, has been solved with the election of Abdul Qadeer. Russia declared that Rabbani's government was legitimate and had caused resentment to the United States.It was said that during Musharraf's visit to the United States, a military coup against him in Pakistan was thwarted.  
In the U.S. state of Tennessee, an unidentified plane dropped suspicious powder on the city, causing a state of emergency in the city and causing great panic in the United States. The United States has announced that in a house in Kabul, documents of Al-Qaeda's atomic bomb program have been obtained, and Mullah Omar has said that he will destroy the United States.
The lack of non-OPEC cooperation with OPEC has caused the price of oil to fall. On the occasion of the shipment of part of the Bushehr nuclear reactor from Russia, the United States has accused Iran of a nuclear weapons program.