Nickname(s) Sardar Sarlashghar Unit Artillery Siblings Sayed Safavi Rank Lieutenant General | Role Military Officer Name Yahya Safavi | |
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Commands held Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution Similar People Mohammad Ali Jafari, Ataollah Salehi, Ali Khamenei, Mohammad Hejazi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | ||
Years of service 21 March 1979–present Service/branch IRGC Ground Forces | ||
Révolution iranienne et Révolution égyptienne : similitudes et différences (Yahya Rahim Safavi)
Yahya "Rahim" Safavi (Persian: یحیى (رحیم) صفوی, born 1952) is an Iranian military commander who served as the chief commander of the Sepah from 1 September 1997 until 1 September 2007.
Contents
- Rvolution iranienne et Rvolution gyptienne similitudes et diffrences Yahya Rahim Safavi
- Early life
- Career
- Asset freeze
- References
Early life
Safavi was born on 1952 to an Iranian esfehani family. in a village in Isfahan.
Career
Safavi was one of the leaders of the Iran–Iraq War. During the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, he played a key role in the uprising in Herat in November 2001, where American, Iranian and Northern Alliance troops supported a local uprising against the Taliban.
He served as the deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps until 1997 when he was appointed its commander, replacing Mohsen Rezaee in 1997.
He was replaced as commander of the IRGC by Mohammad Ali Jafari, former director of the Strategic Studies Center of AGIR on 1 September 2007. Then he was appointed the Supreme Leader Ali Khameini's special advisor.
Asset freeze
On 24 December 2006, Rahim Safavi was listed in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1737 asking for his assets (among others') to be frozen because of alleged involvements in Iranian nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.