Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – October 12, 1987

At quarter past eight in the morning, I went to the gendarmerie training barracks in Venk. It was the officers' graduation ceremony and it lasted until ten o'clock. I spoke for them and watched the parade and horse riding and judo and bayonet fighting and rappelling.

Red status was announced in Tehran and some anti-aircraft guns were fired. Later, it turned out that it was not an attack and that these actions were unnecessary. Mr. Rouhani and Mr. [Air Force Commander Mansour [Stari]] informed that Iraq had attacked the Isfahan Refinery, the Technical Passage, the Nakhjir site and the surrounding areas of Kohdasht.

At noon, Mr. Math came. gave a report on weapons purchases and announced that Soviet agents want to secretly come to Iran to continue negotiations on the situation in Iraq after Saddam; Although the situation was not right in his previous meeting in the Soviet Union, I agreed.

In the evening, Mr. [Akbar [Turkan], head of the Defense Industries Organization] came. He gave a report on military industries and complained about the lack of currency.

At night, the High War Support Council had a meeting in Ayatollah Khamenei's office. There was a plan in the order to take the expenses of mobilization and development of the war from the people, in the meantime, the high-income groups such as export and import merchants, etc. would pay compulsorily and others would pay voluntarily. Experts were supposed to review this plan and prepare the proposal.