Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – October 23, 1994

It rained a lot last night. In recent days, we have had destructive floods in the north and other places. Mr. [Mohammed Ali] Sadouqi came. He described the situation in Yazd as satisfactory. He thanked the Yazd water project. He complained to the president of Islamic Azad University, Yazd branch.

[Mr. Gholamreza Aghazadeh], the oil minister came. He gave a report on his trip to Turkmenistan and signing two contracts to participate in the development of oil tanks and to participate in the sale of fuel oil from their refinery. [President of Turkmenistan] praised Mr. Niazov's good intentions and interest and said that they were serious about the gas pipeline project. The news of the start of the Arak refinery.

The market regulation headquarters had a meeting to approve the regulations of punishments and determine the items of the first stage of price control. In the evening, I attended the meeting of the government board. I was the guest of Ayatollah Khamenei last night. We talked about the condition of Ayatollah [Mohammed Ali] Araki, who is hospitalized in the heart hospital and the possibility of his death is high; The issue of authority after him and the need to strengthen Qom in front of Najaf and ways to achieve this goal. About the situation of fighting against high prices and the slander of some people by proposing deviant issues, in order to diminish the successes, which was decided to be pointed out by them. They were satisfied with the results of my trip and we discussed about the islands and my possible trip to Morocco and Turkmenistan.

On the way home, I went to the heart hospital to visit Ayatollah Araki. They were his children. They are in a coma and do not recognize. They feed me with my head. I emphasized to them for more attention. Ayatollah Khamenei visited before me.