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Iran–PJAK Conflict
The Iran–PJAK conflict is an armed conflict between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Kurdish rebels of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), which began in 2004. The group has carried out numerous attacks in the Kurdistan Province of Iran and provinces of Western Iran. PJAK is closely affiliated with the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the primary opponent of the Republic of Turkey in the Kurdish–Turkish conflict. PJAK has been designated as a terrorist organization by Iran, Japan, Turkey, and the United States. Following massive clashes in summer 2011, a cease-fire was declared between the parties, with Iran claiming victory and PJAK allegedly ending all armed operations as of 29 September 2011. Since then, several violent incidents have occurred, including the December 2011 Baneh clash and another clash in April 2012. In 2013, the confrontations became more frequent, including clashes in May, the August 2013 Sardasht clash and more events in October. The heavy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iranian Kurdistan
Iranian Kurdistan or Eastern Kurdistan ( ku, ڕۆژھەڵاتی کوردستان, translit=Rojhilatê Kurdistanê) is an unofficial name for the parts of northwestern Iran with either a majority or sizable population of Kurds. Geographically, it includes the West Azerbaijan Province, Kurdistan Province, Kermanshah Province, Ilam Province and parts of Hamadan Province and Lorestan Province. In totality, Kurds are about 10% of Iran's total population. According to the last census conducted in 2006, the four main Kurdish-inhabited provinces in Iran – West Azerbaijan, Kermanshah Province, Kurdistan Province and Ilam Province – had a total population of 6,730,000. Kurds generally consider northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan) to be one of the four parts of a Greater Kurdistan, which under that conception are joined by parts of southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northern Syria (Western Kurdistan), and northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan). Outside the traditional Kurdis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdolrahim Mousavi
Sayyed Abdolrahim Mousavi ( fa, 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-Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army from 2008 to 2016. See also * List of Iranian two-star generals since 1979 There are currently 12 two-star officers in the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran: four with the regular army (''Artesh'') background, seven who served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and one with both backgrounds. Although t ... References Islamic Republic of Iran Army major generals Commander-in-Chiefs of Islamic Republic of Iran Army Living people Al-Moussawi family Islamic Republic of Iran Army personnel of the Iran–Iraq War 1960 births {{iran-mil-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassan Firouzabadi
Sayyid Hassan Aghaee Firouzabadi ( fa, 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. After that, he was appointed as a senior military advisor to the Supreme Leader of Iran and a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. Early life Firouzabadi was born on 3 February 1951 in the town of Malabad, in Mashhad, Iran, to religious parents who came from Yazd. He studied at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, graduating in 1980, one year after the Iranian Revolution. He then took a part in the Iran–Iraq War and rose in prominence. He was in charge of the industrial war engineering, and the committee for the construction of surface-to-surface missiles. After the end of the war on 25 October 1989, Ali Khamenei appointed him head of the General Staff. Military career Before he was appointed the chief-of-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadegh Mahsouli
Sadegh Mahsouli ( fa, صادق محصولی, born 9 March 1959) is an Iranian politician who was Minister of Interior from 2008 to 2009 and Minister of Welfare and Social Security from 2009 to 2011. He was appointed to this post on 19 November 2009, as part of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's second cabinet after a Parliamentary vote. From 24 March 2008 to 9 August 2009, he was Minister of Interior of Ahmadinejad's first cabinet. He was succeeded Ali Kordan who was impeached by Parliament in November 2008. Mahsouli withdrew his nomination once when the president nominated him for the position of oil minister in 2005 after admitted to Iranian parliament that he was worth $160 million. In 2011, it was announced that Ministry of Welfare will be merged with Ministry of Labour and Mahsouli will be left cabinet after it. Mahsouli was in charge of the Ministry of Interior when the alleged vote rigging happened in Iran's presidential election in June 2009. June 13 Letter On June 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamran Daneshjoo
Kamran Daneshjoo ( fa, کامران دانشجو; born 2 February 1956) is an Iranian university professor who was Minister of Science from 2009 to 2013. Early life and education His web-site, ''Where?'', claims he has a Bs.C. degree from Queen Mary College (UK) and an Ms.C. degree from Imperial College, after which at some point he was expelled from the UK and restricted from entering the Schengen Area due to a prior arson attempt at the Penguin Book Store in London. He obtained his PhD by "The Viva examination held at Amirkabir University of technology, Iran June 1989". His claim to have earned a PhD has been disputed in Persian language blogs; previously, his web-page mentioned the ''Manchester Imperial Institute of Science and Technology'' as the institute granting the Ph.D. It was reported that when obtaining Majlis's vote of confidence, the parliament speaker Ali Larijani defended him, saying he obtained his certificate in Tehran after he was kicked out of a London co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Kordan
Ali Kordan (23 October 1958 – 22 November 2009) was an Iranian conservative politician who served in the Revolutionary Guards, the judiciary and as deputy oil minister, before becoming interior minister of Iran in 2008 for just 90 days. He was impeached by the Iranian Parliament on 4 November 2008 after a doctorate he claimed to hold turned out to be fraudulent. Career Kordan was a former revolutionary guard and a veteran of the Iran–Iraq War. He previously served as deputy labour minister, president of Iran's technical and vocational organization, deputy head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) for provincial and parliamentary affairs, deputy head of IRIB for administrative and financial affairs, and deputy minister for culture and Islamic guidance for administrative and financial affairs. He also served in the Iranian judiciary. He was appointed deputy oil minister in October 2007, which he had turned down in 2006. In 2008, President Ahmadinejad nominated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seyyed Mehdi Hashemi
Seyyed Mehdi Hashemi ( fa, سید مهدی هاشمی) is an Iranian former military officer and conservative politician who was formerly a member of the Parliament of Iran representing Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr. He is currently President of the Shooting Federation Islamic Republic of Iran. He also served as the deputy to the Minister of Transportation, being appointed on 24 September 2008 and caretaker of the Minister of Interior An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a Cabinet (government), cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and iden .... On 29 August 2005, Hashemi was failed to gain a vote of confidence as the Welfare and Social Security Minister. References 1964 births Living people Members of the 9th Islamic Consultative Assembly Deputies of Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr Front of Islamic Revolution Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mostafa Pourmohammadi
Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi ( fa, مصطفی پورمحمدی; born 9 March 1960, Qom) is an Iranian politician and prosecutor, who has served at different positions and cabinet posts. He was minister of interior from 2005 to 2008 and minister of justice from 2013 until 2017. Pourmohammadi is reportedly implicated in the 1988 Massacre of Iranian Prisoners.Interior Minister Pour-Mohammadi and Iranian Human Rights Abuses ''U.S. State Department'' 11 October 2006 Early life and education Pourmohammadi was born in Qom in 1960. However, IRNA reports his birth year as 1959. He was educated in |
Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari
, image =Moosavi_Lari_02.jpg , imagesize = , smallimage = , caption = Moosavi Lari in the 13th congress of Democracy Party. , office = Minister of Interior , term_start = 22 July 1998 , term_end = 24 August 2005 , president = Mohammad Khatami , predecessor = Mostafa Tajzadeh (acting) , successor = Mostafa Pourmohammadi , constituency = , majority = , birth_date = , birth_place = Mohr, Iran , death_date = , death_place = , restingplace = , restingplacecoordinates = , party = Association of Combatant Clerics , order2 = Vice President of Iranfor Legal and Parliamentary Affairs , term_start2 = 29 August 1997 , term_end2 = 22 July 1998 , president2 = Mohammad Khatami , predecessor2 = Ata'ollah Mohajerani , successor2 =Mohammad-Ali Abtahi Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari fa, عبدالوا ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amir Hatami
Amir Hatami ( fa, امیر حاتمی) is an Iranian Islamic Republic of Iran Army, regular army (''Artesh'') officer with the rank of Brigadier general and Advisor to the Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces of Army Affairs and the former Ministry of Defense (Iran), minister of defense of Iran. He was designated as the defense minister by President Hassan Rouhani on 8 August 2017 and gained vote of confidence from the Iranian Parliament, parliament on 20 August 2017, with 261 yes, 10 nays, 13 abstentions and 4 invalid votes. He is the first minister of defense with ''Artesh'' background in more than two decades, an office held by Revolutionary Guards officers only since 1989. Hatami previously served as the head of the Army's international relations office, as well as a deputy in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, armed forces general staff. References Living people Iranian Vice Ministers Islamic Republic of I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hossein Dehghan
Hossein Dehghani Poudeh ( fa, حسین دهقانی پوده; born 2 March 1957), commonly known as Hossein Dehghan, is a former IRGC air force officer with the rank of brigadier general and the former minister of defense of Iran. He was designated for the position by President Hassan Rouhani on 4 August 2013 and confirmed by the parliament on 15 August. He left the office on 20 August 2017. Early life and education Dehghani was born in a village near Shahreza, called Pudeh, Dehaqan County, Isfahan province, in 1957.Biography of Hossein Dehghani , Iranian government official website He received a PhD in management from |
Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar
Mostafa Mohammad Najjar ( fa, مصطفى محمدنجّار, born 2 December 1956) is an Iranian politician and retired IRGC general. He was interior minister of Iran from 2009 to 2013 and minister of defense in the first cabinet of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 2005 to 2009. He is also a veteran of the IRGC. Early life Najjar was born on 2 December 1956 in Tehran, ethnicity Azerbaijani, from Bostanabad. He graduated from K. N. Toosi University of Technology in 1977 and holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology (1984) and a master's degree in strategic management from the University of Industrial Management (2004). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
