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Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani – April 17, 2003

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I used to work at home and in the office. Saeed [Lahouti, Fati's wife] and Ali brought dinner. Mohsen and Mehdi also came with Fereshte and Fawad

I used to work at home and in the office. Saeed [Lahouti, Fati's wife] and Ali brought dinner. Mohsen and Mehdi also came with Fereshte and Fawad. I spent some time reading the documents that Mr. [Mohsen] Kangerlo, [Prime Minister's Security Adviser] had brought from McFarlane. The letters of [Manochehr] Qurbanifar, who was the mediator of the process, are interesting.

In Iraq, in most of the Shiite cities, the people themselves, led by clerics and with the help of members of the Badr Corps who have recently gone to Iraq, have taken over the administration of the cities and in their demonstrations demand an Islamic government and the withdrawal of the occupying forces. In Baghdad, the representative of Ahmed Chalabi, [Secretary General of the Iraqi National Congress], has started working. The tone of the Americans towards Syria has also been adjusted, and Colin Powell [the US Secretary of State] is supposed to go to Syria.

At the European Union summit in Athens, the accession agreements of 10 new countries, which were mainly members of the Soviet camp, were signed. At the same time as [Tony] Blair, [British Prime Minister] was present in Athens, the people of Athens demonstrated against him and the United States and demanded his expulsion. [Donald Rumsfeld], the US Secretary of Defense, admitted that they have not yet found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but said that they have an extensive search program underway. But Hans Blix, the head of the UN inspectors, said that any claim made by the United States in this regard will not be valid, and this is only the duty of the UN inspectors. But the United States has opposed the renewal of the UN inspectors.
The day before yesterday, there was a convulsion in the parliament when the report of the Article 90 Commission was read by Mr. [Hussein] Ansari [Rad], [the representative of Neishabur and] the head of the commission; Because he was in defense of the freedom movement. In Neishabour against Mr. Ansari, a march has been announced tomorrow after Friday prayers.

In the current week, we had rain and snow in most parts of the country, and yesterday's rain was heavy in Tehran.