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Sistan And Baluchestan Insurgency
The Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency, part of the Balochistan conflict, began approximately in 2004 and is an ongoing low intensity conflict, low-intensity asymmetric conflict in Sistan and Baluchestan Province between Iran and several Baloch people, Baloch Sunni militant organizations which are List of designated terrorist organizations, designated as terrorist organizations by Iran. Background Motivations of the insurgent groups Analysts believe that aim of insurgents may differ from separatism to religious motivations, but they are not entirely clear. The leaders of the groups have maintained different positions: from Baloch nationalism to Salafi jihadism. Belligerents Iran * Islamic Republic of Iran Army and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, responsible for both military and security actions * Ministry of Intelligence (Iran), Ministry of Intelligence, doing intelligence operations * Islamic Republic of Iran Border Guard Command, Border Guard Command, engaging border confli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balochistan Conflict
The Insurgency in Balochistan is an insurgency or revolt by Baloch nationalism, Baloch nationalists against the governments of Government of Pakistan, Pakistan and Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran in the Balochistan, Balochistan region, which covers the Balochistan, Pakistan, Balochistan Province in southwestern Pakistan, Sistan and Baluchestan Province in southeastern Iran, and the Balochistan, Afghanistan, Balochistan region of southern Afghanistan. Rich in natural resources like natural gas, oil, coal, copper, sulphur, fluoride and gold, this is the largest and least developed province in Pakistan. Armed groups demand greater control of the province's natural resources and political autonomy. Baloch separatists have attacked civilians from other ethnicities throughout the province. In the 2010s, attacks against the Shia Islam in the Indian subcontinent, Shia community by Sectarian violence in Pakistan, sectarian groups—though not always directly related to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Mohammad-Hossein Dadras
Mohammad-Hossein Dadras ( fa, محمدحسین دادرس) is an Iranian regular military (''Artesh'') officer with the rank of brigadier who currently serves as the second-in-command. Career Dadras previously served as the commander of Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces and Coordinating Deputy of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army , founded = , current_form = (Islamic Republic) , disbanded = , branches = , headquarters = Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters, Tehran , website = , commander-in-chief = Maj. Gen. .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dadras, Mohammad-Hossein Commanders of Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Force Islamic Republic of Iran Army personnel of the Iran–Iraq War Islamic Republic of Iran Army brigadier generals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasser Mohammadifar
Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein, . (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian politician who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952 and introduced far-reaching land reforms the following year. Following a 1954 attempt on his life by a Muslim Brotherhood member, he cracked down on the organization, put President Mohamed Naguib under house arrest and assumed executive office. He was formally elected president in June 1956. Nasser's popularity in Egypt and the Arab world skyrocketed after his nationalization of the Suez Canal Company and his political victory in the subsequent Suez Crisis, known in Egypt as the ''Tripartite Aggression''. Calls for pan-Arab unity under his leadership increased, culminating with the formation of the United Arab Republic with Syria from 1958 to 1961. In 1962, Nasser began a series of major socialist measures and modernization reforms in Egypt. Despite set ... [...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] |
Ataollah Salehi
Ataollah Salehi ( fa, عطاءالله صالحی; born 9 March 1950) is the former and third commander-in-chief of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army, serving from 2005 until 2017. He graduated before the Islamic Revolution from the Iranian Army's military academy in 1971 with the rank of Artillery Second Lieutenant of the Army's Ground Forces. He has the direct operational command authority over the commanders of Iranian Army's Ground Forces, Air Force, Navy and Air Defense Base. As head of Iran's regular military he was a member of Iran's Supreme National Security Council. Quotes ''The enemy has gone insane and given the insane enemy's history, we should always be prepared.'' ''The Iranian nation will observe that we will manufacture the largest destroyer and the most advanced submarines in the region. Mass production of fighter jets, the samples of which were unveiled last year (2008), and plans to manufacture vessels and submarines will be on our agenda in the new (Ira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Salimi
Mohammad Salimi ( fa, محمد سلیمی; 1937 – 2016) was an Iranian military who served as the 6th Minister of Defense in November 1981 to August 1984 and the commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army in 2000 to 2005. Early life Salimi was born in Mashhad in 1937. Career Salimi was the defense minister in the cabinet of Mir-Hossein Mousavi, replacing Javad Fakoori. He was in office from 1981 to August 1984. He was succeeded by Mohammad Hossein Jalali as defense minister. Although Salimi retired, he was appointed commander-in-chief in May 2000, replacing Ali Shahbazi. Salimi resigned from office in September 2005. He was succeeded by Major General Ataollah Salehi as the commander-in-chief of the Iranian Army. Then Salimi was named as Ali Khamenei's military advisor on the same date. 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 (''Arte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Bagheri (Iranian Commander)
Mohammad Bagheri ( fa, محمد باقری, born Mohammad-Hossein Afshordi ( fa, محمدحسین افشردی) is an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military commander serving at the most senior military position available in Iran, Chief of Staff for the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He holds the rank of Major General within the Iranian military. Career Also, a military intelligence expert with his experience dating back to the Iran–Iraq War, he holds a Ph.D. in political geography and reportedly teaches at Iran's Supreme National Defense University. In 1980, he joined the IRGC. Mohammad Bagheri and other commanders, including Mohammad Ali Jafari, Ali Fadavi, and Gholam Ali Rashid, are members of a group identified by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) as the IRGC Command Network. According to AEI's Critical Threats Project, the group "dominates the upper echelons of Iran's military and controls planning, operations, intelligence, covert and irre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli
Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli ( fa, عبدالرضا رحمانی فضلی; born 1959) is an Iranian Iranian Principlists, conservative politician and Ministry of Interior (Iran), interior minister of Hassan Rouhani's Government of Hassan Rouhani (2013–2017), government. He was the president of Supreme Audit Court of Iran, Supreme Audit Court from 2008 to 2013. Early life and education Fazli was born in Shirvan, Iran, Shirvan in 1959. He is a graduate of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. He also received a PhD in geography from Tarbiat Modarres University. Career Fazli served in different positions, including the head of the planning department, member of parliament, deputy chairman of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Iranian National TV and Radio, deputy head of economic and international affairs at the ministry of interior. He was appointed secretary and deputy head of Supreme National Security Council, the Supreme National Security Council in October 2005. He was the deputy o ... [...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] |
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