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List of senior officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards

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List of senior officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards

The following individuals have been identified as senior officers (currently or in the past) of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, which is a part of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Other senior officials

These people have been identified as senior members of the organization, either at present or at some point in the past:

(in alphabetical order)

  • Alireza Afshar, a former Revolutionary Guard officer, appointed by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as deputy interior minister for political affairs and head of the ministry's election headquarters.
  • Vice Admiral Ali Akbar Ahmadian (Chief of Revolutionary Guard Joint Staff)
  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former president of Iran, "fought for the Revolutionary Guards during the 1980–88 Iran–Iraq War. After taking office in 2005 he promoted five former Guards into cabinet posts."
  • Ahmad Reza Asghari, diplomat and former third secretary of the Iranian embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, also a delegate to a 2002 U.N. conference in Geneva, where he was listed as the Iranian foreign ministry's first secretary in the department for international economic affairs (also known as "Moshen Randjbaran", and not to be confused with Ali Reza Asghari
  • Ali Reza Asghari, a former Revolutionary Guard commander who either defected or was kidnapped by a foreign intelligence service from Turkey in 2006, not to be confused with Ahmad Reza Asghari.
  • Esmail Daghayeghi, founder of the Badr Corps, originally made up of Iraqi exiles in Iran; a member of the Revolutionary Guard
  • Minojahar Frouzanda, general, the current head of intelligence for the Revolutionary Guard.
  • Mohammad Hejazi, brigadier general, Commander-in-chief of the Mobilized Basij forces
  • Mohammad Montazeri, founding member and leading chief of the Revolutionary Guard.
  • Abdol-Ali Najafi, brigadier general, Secret unit
  • Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, a former Revolutionary Guard guardsman and, as of 2007, mayor of Tehran.
  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former president of Iran
  • Morteza Rezaie, brigadier general, (Deputy Commander of Revolutionary Guard)
  • Morteza Saffari, rear admiral, Revolutionary Guards' Navy
  • Hossein Salami, brigadier general, Revolutionary Guards' Air Force
  • Mohsen Sazegara, Revolutionary Guard founding member, exiled analyst
  • Qassem Soleimani, brigadier general, Quds Force
  • Ahmad Vahidi, Iran's deputy defense minister, founder of the Revolutionary Guard's "Lebanon Corps" in the 1980s, according to Iran analyst Alireza Jafarzadeh.
  • Ali Akbar Velayati, former Iranian Foreign Minister
  • Mohammad-Reza Zahedi, brigadier general, Revolutionary Guards' Ground Forces
  • Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr, former Revolutionary Guard officer; as of 2007 a deputy interior minister and brother-in-law of IRGC commander Mohammad Ali Jafari.

    • References

    List of senior officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Wikipedia
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