Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – September 1, 1987

I came to the parliament early in the morning. Yasser also came with me. He is preparing to go to the front. He wants to go with Mr. Arabi - our former security guard. In the reports, the issue of the Persian Gulf is at the top; The renewal of Iraq's attacks on the possibility of retaliating against us and the concern of conflict with the United States.

I was in the public meeting until a quarter past ten. I came to my office. It was reported that Iraq has attacked Isfahan iron smelter and several oil and industrial centers. The confrontation was supposed to be intense. Our air force can't do much in striking inside Iraq. We hit mostly with artillery.

In the afternoon, one of the secretaries of the commissions complained to [Mr. Seyed Hossein Mousaviyan], the director general of the parliament's departments. Mr. Gudrat Alikhani came. He complains about Qazvin Friday imam; They were together in the past and have recently had a rift. I recommended cooperation.

In the evening, Mr. [Alireza] Moiri, the [political] deputy prime minister came. He reported on his trip to Türkiye, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia. Mr. [Saeed] Rajaee Khorasani [Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations] came. He expressed his opposition to the President's visit to the United Nations and criticized my interviews and consulted for the propaganda policy at the United Nations.

I worked in my office till night. I had a slight fever from a cold. Ahmad Agha spoke on the phone about the IRGC's request to deliver helicopters from the army and to have a quota of military dependents in our embassies abroad. He complained about the delay of countermeasures at sea and its weakness on land.