Akbar Hashemi’s Memoirs – February 15, 2003

Bush has angrily said that if the people of the world believe that Iraq will surrender without force for disarmament, they are foolish. It was announced that [Dolly], a sheep produced by simulation method, died after a while due to lung disease, which is a blow to this knowledge.

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After last night's meeting of the [UN] Security Council, the opposition to America's position has risen and most of the members of the council have demanded to give more time to the [weapons] inspectors. America and England have agreed to a new deadline of a few weeks, but they are asking for a deadline of several months, and [George] Bush, [President of the United States of America] has angrily said, if the people of the world  Those who believe that Iraq will surrender without force for disarmament are fooled.  

Today, in an unprecedented and coordinated action, in 160 countries in the continents of America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Pacific Ocean and Middle East, with the presence of millions of people, anti-war demonstrations of America were held.  
It was announced that [Dolly], a sheep produced by simulation method, died after some time due to lung disease, which is a blow to this knowledge.   
The Assembly [Determining Expediency of the Nizam] had a meeting and approved two clauses of the general communication policies.  In the afternoon, in the meeting that we usually have after the assembly meeting, [in the presence of Mr. Ahmad Janati, Mohammad Yazdi, Abbas Waez Tabasi, Ali Akbar Natiq Nouri, Mohammad Ali Mohadi Kermani and Gurban Ali Dorri Najafabadi], there were discussions about the possible war in Iraq, the elections of the [Islamic city and village councils], a [confidential] letter from 80 [representatives of the sixth parliament] to the leadership.  We had the status of Ayatollah Montazeri, the government bills and the budget bill. 
 In the evening, I had an interview with Mr. [Sadegh] Zibaklam, [Professor of Tehran University] about construction policy.   [Khabari] Al Jazeera TV broadcasted a new tape of [Osama] Bin Laden, [the leader of al-Qaeda], which repeats the concepts of the previous tape.  In Palestine, Mujahideen killed four people by exploding an Israeli tank.