Why are Hashemi's memories so important?

Abdollah Abdi - Abdi Media

After the suspicious death of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of the most important undiscovered uncertainties was his will.

Except for a short and old will, nothing was found from him. A strange issue from a person who was once the most important and powerful person in the Islamic Republic and was once the most influential person and second in political power.

That testament is still shrouded in mystery, but Hashemi left behind important works and reliable documents that speak clearly but cryptically about the labyrinth of power in the Islamic Republic.

I have already said that no one in the Islamic Republic could and cannot from such a position; Of course, contemporary history is also written through the lens of power, and it analyzes and narrates from everyday details that maybe few people pay attention to.

The details he wrote obsessively and the encryptions he made in his diaries are amazing and you should remember or search for its signs and records to understand its importance.

Maybe if I wasn't abroad and didn't have the opportunity to study, this importance wouldn't have been so obvious to me.

You must agree with me that despite Khomeini's influence on Iran and the Islamic Revolution he led, Khamenei's life and influence during his long and multi-layered rule are more attractive challenging, and perhaps more mysterious.

To understand the management personality and its actions and the expansion of supervision and power towards the government and the management of social phenomena in different eras by Khamenei who transformed the small office of leadership into a leadership body with authority and multiple offices, including leadership, military, religious affairs, the head of the office became official and deputy and middle managers and expert groups; The diaries of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani have expressed the most important, best and most reliable narration.

A leader who sometimes, according to Hashemi's narrative, has exercised his opinion on even the most detailed affairs of the country, individuals, and courts, but these exercises of power have had a strange and astonishing course since 1989, when Khamenei's leadership began, until 1999 when Hashemi's journals were published. It shows different topics and especially Khamenei's reactions and comments in the two-person meetings should be paid more attention.

I wish Sheikh Akbar Hashemi dared to publish his memoirs during his lifetime and not after his death. Diaries and memoirs of other prominent political persons were also published.

One of the important values ​​of Hashemi's memoirs, especially since 1989, is that at the time of publication, he and most of the people he mentions were alive, and no one was exposed to the memoirs and could not say that they were false. Moreover, in the memoirs of 1999, we also read that some people Referring to him, the representatives of the experts complained that their talks and positions were included in the memoirs of 1981, probably out of fear and political concern, and not denial.

The daily newspaper between 1989 and 1999 (the first ten years of Khamenei's leadership) and the search in it, which was written by a powerful person of that time, is amazing.

It seems that these newspapers, even with the existence of self-censorship and other audits by the most powerful person after the leader of the Islamic Republic, which is the reference point of various people for their conservative criticism of Khamenei and his office; Smart critics who carefully find information beyond the writing and sentences of newspapers.

Without a doubt, Hashemi Rafsanjani is a rare narrator of contemporary history from the perspective of power, especially the narration of the first decade of Khomeini's leadership minus the years 1979, 1980, and 1981, which is not in the form of a diary, and the first decade of Ayatollah Khamenei's leadership, which has been published so far; The next years until 2017 will definitely be more readable and have wonderful tips.

The last days of Akbar Hashemi's life, which Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani recently read in the "Days" envelope for political reasons, also narrates extremely important and sad points about the fate of the most powerful person of the Islamic Republic and the behavior that happened to him and his office. and the family, as if you have to wait for years until their release.