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Mohammad Jamali-Paqaleh
Brigadier general Mohammad Jamali-Paqaleh ( fa, محمد جمالی پاقلعه) (1963–2013) was an Iranian commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Revolutionary Guards who died in Syrian civil war. Biography Jamali-Paqaleh was born in 1963 in Paqaleh in Shahr-e Babak County, Kerman Province. When he was two years old, his father died. He completed primary school in the village and then migrated to Rafsanjan to continue his education. Iran–Iraq War Jamali-Paqaleh was a veteran of the Iran–Iraq War and was a member of the Sarallah division, the same division outfitted that had trained by General Qassem Soleimani. He had participated in several operations such as Operation Tariq al-Qods, Operation Fath ol-Mobin, Fath ol-Mobin, Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas, Beit ol-Moqaddas, Operation Ramadan, Ramadan, Operation Dawn 8, Dawn 8, and Siege of Basra, Karbala-5,4,1. Syrian Civil War The Iranian news outlet Mehr News Agency reported that Jamali voluntary went to S ...
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Pa Qaleh, Shahr-e Babak
Pa Qaleh ( fa, پاقلعه, also Romanized as Pā Qal‘eh; also known as Pā’īn Qal‘eh, Pāi Qal‘eh, and Pa yi Qal‘eh) is a village in Pa Qaleh Rural District, in the Central District (Shahr-e Babak County), Central District of Shahr-e Babak County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 138, in 37 families. References

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Operation Beit Ol-Moqaddas
Operation Beit-ol-Moqaddas ( fa, عملیات بیت‌المقدس) or Operation Toward Beit-ol-Moqaddas () was an Iranian operation conducted during the Iran–Iraq War. The operation was a success, as it achieved its standing aim of liberating Khorramshahr and pushed Iraqi troops back to the border. This operation, coupled with Operation Tariq-ol-Qods, and Operation Fath-ol-Mobin, succeeded in evicting Iraqi troops from southern Iran and gave Iran the momentum. Prelude On 22 September 1980, because of his desire that Iraq should have complete dominance over the Shatt al-Arab (or the Arvand Rūd) waterway, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declared war against Iran and launched a land invasion of southern Iran, although operations did occur elsewhere on the Iran–Iraq border. After achieving successes due to the post-Revolution military and political chaos in Iran, Saddam Hussein ordered that the Iraqi troops "dig-in" on the front line. He hoped that this would show the wo ...
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People From Kerman Province
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of ...
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2013 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Footnotes See also * Leap year * List of calendars * List of non-standard ... * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ...
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1963 Births
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the penumbral lunar eclipse and the annular solar eclipse, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee. * January 19 – Soviet spy Ghe ...
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Ali Reza Tavassoli
Ali Reza Tavassoli ( fa, علیرضا توسلی; 1962 – 28 February 2015) was the Afghan commander of the Fatemiyoun Brigade until he was killed in action fighting Jabhat al-Nusra in Daraa, Syria. Biography Ali Reza Tavassoli was born in 1962 in Afghanistan. Tavassoli lived in Mashhad and studied in Qom, Iran. He graduated from Al-Mustafa International University. He was an Afghan volunteer in the Iran–Iraq War. In Syria He was appointed by Qasem Soleimani, Iranian commander of the Quds Force, as commander of Shia volunteers from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. On 2014, he organized Afghan Shia volunteers and formed the Fatemiyoun Brigade to protect holy Shia shrines in Syria. In Syria, Tavassoli is known as ''Abu Hamed''. Death On 28 February 2015, Ali Reza Tavassoli was killed in Southern Syria offensive while fighting Jabhat al-Nusra in Daraa, south of Damascus )), is an adjective which means "spacious". , motto = , ...
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Mohsen Ghitaslou
Mohsen Gheytaslou ( fa, محسن قیطاسلو; 1990 - April 11, 2016) was an Iranian Takavar and the first member of the 65th Airborne Special Forces Brigade 65th Airborne Special Forces Brigade ( fa, تیپ ۶۵ نیروهای ویژه هوابرد), or the ''NOHED'' Brigade (), is an airborne, special forces unit of the Iranian Army established in 1959. The unit's first operation was during the Dhof ... to be killed in the Syrian Civil War. He was deployed to Syria in an advisory capacity and to protect holy shrines in the Syria. Ghitaslou was killed on 11 April 2016 in Syria. References External links Mohsen Ghitaslou photo {{DEFAULTSORT:Gheytaslou, Mohsen Iranian Takavars People from Tehran Province 1990 births 2016 deaths Iranian military personnel killed in action Military personnel killed in the Syrian civil war ...
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Hossein Hamadani
Hossein Hamedani, also spelled Hamedani ( fa, حسین همدانی; December 15, 1950 – October 7, 2015), was an Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander. He was posthumously promoted to a Major General. Biography Hamadani was born in Abadan, Iran. His parents were originally from Hamadan. Hamadani first rose to prominence during the 1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran and the Iran–Iraq War, where he helped suppress the Communist rebellion in Iranian Kurdistan. Mohammad Ali Jafari appointed him as Deputy Commander of the IRGC in 2005, and together they planned how to deal with any attempted "velvet revolution" in Iran. Hamadani subsequently helped to suppress the 2009 election protests in Iran. He had been head of the IRGC's Rassoulollah Corps in charge of Greater Tehran from November 2009 until January 2014, and had been subject to international sanctions since 14 April 2011. Hamadani had written three books: * ''Moonlight of Khayyen'' ()), narrating the Iranian Revolution, con ...
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Kerman
Kerman ( fa, كرمان, Kermân ; also romanization of Persian, romanized as Kermun and Karmana), known in ancient times as the satrapy of Carmania, is the capital city of Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 821,394, in 221,389 households, making it the 10th most populous city of Iran. It is the largest and most developed city in Kerman Province and one of the most important cities in the southeast of Iran. It is also one of the largest cities of Iran in terms of area. Kerman is famous for its long history and strong cultural heritage. The city is home to many historic mosques and Zoroastrian fire temples. Kerman became the capital city of Iranian dynasties several times during its history. It is located on a large, flat plain, 800 km (500 mi) south-east of Tehran, the capital of Iran. History Kerman was founded as a defensive outpost, with the name Veh-Ardashir, by Ardashir I, founder of the Sasanian Empire, in the 3rd century AD. After th ...
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Bashar Al-Assad
Bashar Hafez al-Assad, ', Levantine pronunciation: ; (, born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician who is the 19th president of Syria, since 17 July 2000. In addition, he is the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces and the Secretary-General of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, which espouses the ideologies of neo-Ba'athism and Assadism. His father and predecessor was General Hafez al-Assad, whose presidency between 1971 to 2000 marked the transfiguration of Syria from a republican state into a dynastic military dictatorship tightly controlled by Alawite-dominated armed forces and ''Mukhabarat'' (secret services) loyal to the Assad family. Born and raised in Damascus, Bashar al-Assad graduated from the medical school of Damascus University in 1988 and began to work as a doctor in the Syrian Army. Four years later, he attended postgraduate studies at the Western Eye Hospital in London, specialising in ophthalmology. In 1994, afte ...
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Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque
Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque ( ar, مَسْجِد ٱلسَّيِّدَة زَيْنَب, Masjid as-Sayyidah Zaynab) is a mosque located in the city of Sayyidah Zaynab, in the southern suburbs of Damascus, Syria. According to Twelver Shia Muslim tradition, the mosque contains the grave of Zaynab bint Ali, Zaynab, the daughter of Ali, ‘Alī and Fatimah, Fātimah and granddaughter of Muhammad. Ismaili Shia tradition place Zaynab's tomb in the Al-Sayeda Zainab Mosque, mosque of the same name in Cairo, Egypt. The tomb became a centre of Twelver religious studies in Syria and a destination of mass pilgrimage by Twelver Shia Muslims from across the Muslim world, beginning in the 1980s. The zenith of visitation normally occurs in the summer. The present-day mosque that hosts the tomb was built in 1990.Matthiesen, TobySyria: Inventing a Religious War ''The New York Review of Books''. 2013-06-12. Specifications The shrine of Sayyidah Zainab is located in the south of Damascus where called Al-Sayy ...
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Mehr News Agency
The Mehr News Agency (MNA; ''Xabâr-gozâri Mehr''; "Mehr News Agency") is a semi-official news agency of the Iranian government. It is headquartered in Tehran, and is owned by the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization (IIDO). History and profile Established on 22 June 2003, MNA is the most multilingual (transmitting news and photos in six languages) news agency in the Islamic Republic of Iran and its first CEO and Director General was Parviz Esmaeili and its current CEO and Director General is Mohammad Shojaeian (since September 2019). MNA includes coverage in the following areas: * Art (cinema, theater, music, visual arts) * Culture and literature (poetry, stories, books) * Religion and thought * Seminary and university * Modern Technology * Social * Economy * Political * International * Sports * Magazines * Photos * Provinces MNA has five regional centers inside the country—northern, southern, central, eastern, and western Iran. It has also stringers and correspond ...
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