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Mohammad Bagheri (Iranian commander) Major General Mohammad Bagheri ( Persian: محمد باقری, born Mohammad-Hossein Afshordi [4] ( Persian: محمدحسین افشردی) is an Iranian military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who serves as the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Brigadier general Aziz Nasirzadeh. General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran ( Persian: ستاد کل نیروهای مسلح جمهوری اسلامی ایران, romanized : Setad-e Kol-e Niruha-ye Mosallah-e Jomhuri-ye Islami-ye Iran) is the most senior military body in Iran, to implement policy, monitor and ...
The position of Commander-in-Chief ( Farmandehe Koll-e Qova ( Persian: فرمانده کل قوا ), formerly known as Bozorg Arteshtārān ( Persian: بزرگارتشتاران) is the ultimate authority of all the Armed Forces of Iran, and the highest possible military position within the Islamic Republic of Iran. The position was ...
Awards. Order of Fath ( 1st class) Sayyed Abdolrahim Mousavi ( Persian: سید عبدالرحیم موسوی) is an Iranian military officer who is Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army since 21 August 2017. He was formerly deputy Chief of General Staff of Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was also Second-in ...
The regular armed forces have an estimated 398,000 personnel: the Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces with 350,000, of which 220,000 are conscripts; the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy with 18,000, and the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force with 37,000 airmen. [1] The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Defense Force is a branch split off from ...
10 killed, including Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Location in Iraq. On 3 January 2020, Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian major general, was killed by an American drone strike near Baghdad International Airport, Iraq, while travelling to meet Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi .
Sayyid Hassan Aghaee Firouzabadi ( Persian: حسن فيروزآبادی; 3 February 1951 – 3 September 2021) was an Iranian military officer. He served as the Chief-of-Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces —the most senior military authority in Iran—from 1989 to 2016. [4] After that, he was appointed a senior military advisor to the Supreme ...
The following individuals have been identified as senior officers (currently or in the past) of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army (AJA), which is a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces. Chiefs of the Joint Staff [ edit ]