Khamenei does not even accept the government and the Supreme National Security Council for the arrested Jewish accused, and he personally cancels the release order and does not pay attention to Hashemi's suggestions.

The exact text of Hashemi is as follows:

On the way home, Mr. [Syed Mohammad] Khatami, [President], got into my car. He complained to the leadership that they were strict about the issue of 13 Jews accused of espionage and did not allow the intervention of the government and the Supreme National Security Council in solving their problems and canceled the order to allow the release of several of them that Mr. Khatami had given.

Mr. Khatami, to calm the global tension, had told the Minister of Information to release some of the 13 Jews whose accusations were not substantiated, which the leadership opposed and told him to tell the Minister that the order had been canceled. Mr. Khatami requested that his leadership tell this to Mr. Younesi and they immediately ordered to cancellation through Mr. [Syed Ali Asghar] Hijazi.

At dinner, I suggested that the issue of Jewish spies be handed over to the Supreme Council of National Security; They did not accept leadership. Later it turned out that it was because of this position and order of Mr. Khatami regarding the release of some of them; They believed that it should stand firm.

Diaries 1999 June 22 Hashemi Rafsanjani