Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – November 25, 1990

I reached my office at half past seven in the morning. I did the work. Then I met with [Mr. Yusuf bin Alawi], the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Oman; As before, he talked about the inevitability of war. Mr. [Ali Akbar] Natiq Noori, [Tehran's representative] came. There was some talk about economic policies and measures of the municipality and issues of the Majlis and extremists.

[Mr. Gholamreza Aghazadeh], the oil minister came. He complained to the central bank about the delay in opening foreign currency credits. The members of the production commission came. They talked about moving towards a single currency rate and making the currency of preferential and competitive production uniform; My opinion is that we should choose between the competitive price and the preferential price - the price of 60 Tomans - and then proceed with the government currency cases gradually. It was decided to check again.

In the evening Mr. [Bijan Namdar] Zanganeh, [Energy Minister] came for work matters and requested for more credit to supply water to the cities. I attended the meeting of the government board. The issue of Isfahan and the movement of some teachers to increase their salaries were brought up and we examined the solution.

We had a meeting with the leadership at night. The Supreme National Security Council's approvals, the budget of the army and the IRGC, the issue of teachers, the pilgrim's trip to Iraq, the trial of bribe takers of the Tehran municipality, government and state punishments, and the health and treatment of families were discussed. At night, I stayed in my office to do the backlog.