Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – November 30, 1991

In the news, the issue of the announcement of the Central Bank of the Soviet Union regarding the inability to pay the country's expenses and [Suleiman] Demirel's announcement in Turkey regarding the current economic problem with the policies of the former rulers draws attention.

Mr. [Reza] Malekzadeh, [Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education] and his deputy [Morteza] Azarnoush came. They gave a report on the country's pharmaceutical situation and drug smuggling abroad because of cheapness, and they got permission to gradually increase the price. The policy of allocating subsidies to essential and sensitive goods causes these goods to be smuggled abroad and exploited by profiteers.

Mr. [Hasan] Shafti, [CEO of Homa Airlines] and Nazari Nia, the co-pilot who escaped to Iraq with his plane, by Mohammadi, and this person resisted and did not surrender and endured years of captivity with difficulties, came. The co-pilot explained the abuses of the Baathists and brought a rosary made of palm kernels that he had made for me in captivity and gave it to me as a present. I thanked and said, from now on, we will witness an important revenge for the atrocities of the Baathists.

The Supreme Council of National Security had a meeting that night. A decision was made about the arrival of the car from Iraq and the strike of some teachers in Urmia and the three islands. After the meeting, Mr. [Ali] Falahian, [Information Minister] came and gave a report on the situation in Khuzestan and the reconstruction and liberation of the east of Shahid Bakri fortress in the east of Hor. Mr. [Mohammed Javad] Larijani and Mr. [Ali Mohammad] Basharti were not in favor of my trip to Sudan, which was negotiated.