List Of Iranian Commanders In The Iran–Iraq War
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List Of Iranian Commanders In The Iran–Iraq War
This is a list of commanders of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran during the Iran–Iraq War (1980–88). Leaders ;Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces * Abolhassan Banisadr (''Start of War'' – 10 June 1981) * Ruhollah Khomeini (10 June 1981 – ''End of War'') ** Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, acted as the ''de facto'' commander-in-chief since mid-1980s and was later officially appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief on 2 June 1988 *** Hassan Rouhani, served as deputy to second-in-command since 1988 Military commanders Strategic level Islamic Republic of Iran Army ;Chief-of-Staff * Brig. Gen. Valiollah Fallahi (''Start of War'' – 29 September 1981) * Brig. Gen. Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad (1 October 1981 – 25 October 1984) * Col. Esmaeil Sohrabi (25 October 1984 – 1988) * Brig. Gen. Ali Shahbazi (1988 – ''End of War'') ; Ground Force * Brig. Gen. Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad (''Start of War'' – 1 October 1981) * Col. Ali Sayyad Shirazi (1 October ...
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Armed Forces Of The Islamic Republic Of Iran
Armed (May, 1941–1964) was an American Thoroughbred gelding race horse who was the American Horse of the Year in 1947 and Champion Older Male Horse in both 1946 and 1947. He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1963. Background Armed was sired by the great stakes winner Bull Lea, the sire of Citation. His dam was Armful, whose sire was Belmont Stakes winner Chance Shot and whose grandsire was the great Fair Play. Besides being small for his age and very headstrong, Armed had the habits of biting and kicking hay out of his handler's pitchfork. Since he was also practically untrainable, his trainer, Ben A. Jones, sent him back to Calumet Farm to be gelded and turned out to grow up. He returned to the track late in his two-year-old season and resumed training. Racing career His first start was as a three-year-old the following February, and he won at Hialeah Park by eight lengths. He won again less than a week later but then won only once ...
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Islamic Republic Of Iran Air Force
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Mohsen Rezaei
Mohsen Rezaee ( fa, محسن رضایی, born Sabzevar Rezaee Mirgha'ed ( fa, سبزوار رضایی میرقائد) on 1 September 1954) is an Iranian Iranian Principlists, conservative politician affiliated with the Resistance Front of Islamic Iran and senior military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who currently holds office as the Vice President of Iran for Economic Affairs, member of the Expediency Discernment Council, secretary of the , as well as the secretary of the Iranian government's Economic Committee. He was secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council from 1997 to 2021. From 1980 to 1997, Rezaee was commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Before the Iranian Revolution, Rezaee was a member of the Islamist guerilla rebel group ''Mansouroun'' and joined the Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization following the revolution. Dubbed a "perennial candidate", Rezaee ran as a conservative presidential candidate in the 2009 ...
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Claremont McKenna College
Claremont McKenna College (CMC) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It has a curricular emphasis on government, economics, public affairs, finance, and international relations. CMC is a member of the Claremont Colleges consortium. Founded as a men's college in 1946, CMC became coeducational in 1976. The college focuses primarily on undergraduate education, but in 2007 it established the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, which offers a master's program in finance. CMC is known for its faculty's conservative political orientation relative to comparable liberal arts colleges. , there were 1,338 undergraduate students and postgraduate students. CMC competes in the NCAA Division III's Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) conference in a joint athletic program with Harvey Mudd College and Scripps College. H ...
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Morteza Rezaee
Murtaza or Morteza or Mortaza, a Persianate form of the Arabic Murtada or Murtadha ( ar, مرتضى, translit=Murtaḍā, lit=One Pleasing to God, label=none), is a common Muslim name. Pronunciation varies with accent, from native Arabic speakers to speakers of European and Asian languages. The name is an epithet of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Due to the rhyming nature, Murtaza is sometimes confused with Mustafa ('Chosen One'), an epithet of Muhammad. Honorific/regnal name * Ali ibn Abi Talib (601–661), son-in-law of Muhammad, fourth Rashidun Caliph, first Shi'a Imam * Al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Abid, descendant of Ali, rose in revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate and assumed the name ''al-Murtadha'' as his regnal title. * Al-Murtada Muhammad (died 922), second Zaydi Imam of Yemen * Abu Hafs Umar al-Murtada (d. 1266), thirteenth Almohad caliph * Sharif al-Murtaza (965–1044), Shi'a scholar * Murtada al-Zabidi (1732–1790), Sufi sch ...
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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC; fa, سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی, Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enghelāb-e Eslāmi, lit=Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution also Sepāh or Pasdaran for short) is a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces, founded after the Iranian Revolution on 22 April 1979 by order of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.IISS Military Balance 2006, Routledge for the IISS, London, 2006, p. 187 Whereas the Iranian Army defends Iranian borders and maintains internal order, according to the Iranian constitution, the Revolutionary Guard is intended to protect the country's Islamic republic political system, which supporters believe includes preventing foreign interference and coups by the military or "deviant movements". The IRGC is designated as a terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United States. As of 2011, the Revolutionary Guards had at least 250,000 military personnel including ground, aerosp ...
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Mohammad-Hossein Malekzadegan
Mohammad-Hossein Malekzadegan ( fa, محمدحسین ملک‌زادگان; b. 1944) is an Iranian retired military officer who served as the Commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy from 1985 to 1989. As of 2016, he was a board member of Chabahar Free Trade-Industrial Zone. Malekzadegan ranked captain when he was appointed to the position on 27 June 1985, having previously served as the commander of the south fleet in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman since June 1983, and a deputy to the navy commander after 10 October 1980. According to Pierre Razoux, his appointment "reinvigorated" Iran's regular naval forces that were in a rivalry with the Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. See also * List of Iranian commanders in the Iran–Iraq War This is a list of commanders of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran during the Iran–Iraq War (1980–88). Leaders ;Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces * Abolhassan Banisadr (''Start of War'' ...
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Esfandiar Hosseini
Esfandiar Hosseini ( fa, اسفندیار حسینی) was an Iranian military officer who served as the Commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy from 1983 to 1985. Hosseini was appointed to the position on 30 April 1983 and served in the capacity until 25 June 1985, when he resigned for unknown reasons. Personal life Hosseini was a non-religious person and married to an Italian woman. See also * List of Iranian commanders in the Iran–Iraq War This is a list of commanders of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran during the Iran–Iraq War (1980–88). Leaders ;Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces * Abolhassan Banisadr (''Start of War'' – 10 June 1981) * Ruholl ... References {{Commanders of the Iranian Navy Commanders of Islamic Republic of Iran Navy Islamic Republic of Iran Army personnel of the Iran–Iraq War ...
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Bahram Afzali
Bahram Afzali ( fa, بهرام افضلی; 1937–1984) was the Commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy from May/June 1980 to 24 April 1983. He was executed for his clandestine membership in the Tudeh Party of Iran in 1984. Career Afzali was born in 1937 in the city of Qom. His father was a cleric. He entered the service of the Imperial Iranian Navy in 1957 and was sent to Italy for further education. In 1961, he was graduated from Italian Naval Academy, where he was trained in mechanical engineering and shipbuilding. He later obtained a PhD in boat and submarine architecture in 1970. Afzali was an engineer and a captain in the Imperial Iranian Navy. After the 1979 revolution, he continued to serve in the Navy and took part in the Iran–Iraq War. Then Iranian president Abolhassan Bani Sadr appointed him as the commander of the Navy in June 1980. He was also special adviser of then speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Arrest, trial and deat ...
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Islamic Republic Of Iran Navy
, ''Daryādelān''"Seahearts" , patron = , motto = fa, راه ما، راه حسین است, ''Rāh-e ma, rāh-e hoseyn ast''"''Our Path, Is Hussain's Path''" , colors = , colors_label = , equipment = , equipment_label = Fleet , battles = , anniversaries = 28 November , commander1 = Commodore Shahram Irani , commander1_label = Commander , notable_commanders = , identification_symbol = , identification_symbol_label = Ensign , identification_symbol_2 = , identification_symbol_2_label = Flag , identification_symbol_3 = , identification_symbol_3_label = Jack , identification_symbol_4 = , identification_symbol_4_label = Roundel , native_name = The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (IRIN; fa, نیروی دریایی ارتش جمه ...
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Mansour Sattari
Mansour Sattari ( fa, منصور ستاری; also Romanized as Mansoor Sattari) (19 May 1948 – 5 January 1995) was an Iranian Air Force Brigadier general. After serving his compulsory military service in the Army Artillery branch, he joined the Iranian Military Academy and entered the Imperial Iranian Air Force in 1965 in the Ground Force branch. In 1971 he was sent to United States to attend a course in Advanced Radar Control and Battle Management. Upon his return to Iran he was employed as a Radar Defence Control Officer. He implemented many innovative plans to improve radar and counterattack systems that was learnt from the U.S. Air Forces, which proved helpful in disabling offensive capacities of the Iraqi Air Force during the Iran-Iraq War. In 1983 Mansour Sattari was appointed Deputy Operations Officer for the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force counterattack headquarters, and in 1985, as the Deputy Planning Officer of IRIAF. In 1986, after reaching the rank of Colonel ...
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the retirement of William P. Sisler in 2017, the university appointed as Director George Andreou. The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Harvard Square, and in London, England. The press co-founded the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Yale University Press. TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018. Notable authors published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Piketty. The Display Room in Harvard Square, dedicated to selling HUP publications, closed on June 17, 2009. Related publishers, imprints, and series HUP owns the Belknap Press imprint, whi ...
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