Admiral Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies. In the Commonwealth nations and the United States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general in the army or the air force, and is above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet, ...

Farajollah Rasai ( fa, فرج‌الله رسائی, 1908 – 2 December 2002) was the Commander of the Imperial Iranian Navy from 1961 to 1972 and the most senior naval commander of the Iranian Navy. He joined the Navy in 1929 and was trained at Naval Academy of Livorno. Under his command, the Iranian Navy took control over the

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and the Greater and

Lesser Tunb (Tonb-e Bozorg or Tonb-e Kuchak) ar, طنب الكبرى وطنب الصغرى (Tunb el-Kubra and Tunb el-Sughra) , location = Persian Gulf , coordinates = Greater: Lesser: , archipelago = , total_islands = 2 , major_is ...

s islands 30 November 1971 from the Emirate of Sharjah. After he retired in 1972, he was an Iranian Senator until the

Islamic Revolution The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dyna ...

when he fled Iran and lived in the United States until his death in 2002.

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Commanders of Imperial Iranian Navy 1910 births 2002 deaths Exiles of the Iranian Revolution in the United States Members of the Senate of Iran Iranian emigrants to the United States Imperial Iranian Navy four-star admirals 20th-century Iranian people People from Bandar-e Anzali {{Iran-politician-stub