The following individuals have been identified as senior officers (currently or in the past) of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces.
Commanders-in-Chief edit
Javad Mansouri was IRGC's "first unofficial commander"[1] and acting during its "early formative phase".[2] Abbas Agha-Zamani, however is considered the "first official operational commander" and was appointed by the Commander-in-Chief.[1]
| No. | Portrait | Commander-in-Chief | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | Javad Mansouri Acting | March 1979 | May 1979 | 3 months | [2] | |
| – | Mostafa Chamran (1932–1981) Acting | Summer 1979 | Summer 1979 | de facto officeholder | [2] | |
| – | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934–2017) Acting | August 1979 | August 1979 | less than a month | [2][1] | |
| – | Hassan Lahouti Acting | October 1979 | November 1979 | 2 months | [1] | |
| – | Lieutenant colonel Fereydoun Kian Acting | late 1979 | late 1979 | Unknown | [2] | |
| – | Ali Khamenei (born 1939) Acting | 24 November 1979 | 24 February 1980 | 92 days | [1] | |
| – | Abbas Duzduzani (1942–2018) Acting | 1980 | 1980 | Unknown | [1][3] | |
| 1 | Abbas Agha-Zamani | 2 June 1980 | 27 June 1980 | 25 days | [4] | |
| 2 | Morteza Rezaee | 22 July 1980 | 20 September 1981 | 1 year, 60 days | [4] | |
| 3 | Major general Mohsen Rezaee (born 1954) | 20 September 1981 | 19 September 1997 | 15 years, 364 days | [4] | |
| 4 | Major general Yahya Rahim Safavi (born 1952) | 19 September 1997 | 10 September 2007 | 9 years, 356 days | [4] | |
| 5 | Major general Mohammad Ali Jafari (born 1957) | 10 September 2007 | 21 April 2019 | 11 years, 223 days | [4] | |
| 6 | Major general Hossein Salami (born 1960) | 21 April 2019 | Incumbent | 5 years, 10 days | [5] |
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Deputy Commanders-in-Chief edit
| No. | Portrait | Deputy Commander-in-Chief | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Major Yousef Kolahdouz (1946–1981) | July 1980 | 29 September 1981 | 1 year, 90 days | [6] | |
| 2 | Ali Shamkhani (born 1955) | June 1982 | 24 September 1989 | 7 years, 115 days | [2][7] | |
| 3 | Yahya Rahim Safavi (born 1952) | 24 September 1989 | 10 September 1997 | 7 years, 351 days | – | |
| 4 | Brigadier general Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr (born c. 1954/1955) | 13 September 1997 | 30 April 2006 | 8 years, 229 days | – | |
| 5 | Brigadier general Morteza Rezaee | 30 April 2006 | 22 May 2008 | 2 years, 22 days | – | |
| 6 | Brigadier general Mohammad Hejazi (1956–2021) | 22 May 2008 | 4 October 2009 | 1 year, 135 days | – | |
| 7 | Brigadier general Hossein Salami (born 1960) | 4 October 2009 | 21 April 2019 | 9 years, 199 days | – | |
| 8 | Commodore Ali Fadavi (born 1961) | 16 May 2019 | Incumbent | 4 years, 351 days | – |
Chiefs of the Joint Staff edit
Commanders of military branches edit
Ground Forces edit
Aerospace Force edit
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Quds Force edit
Basij edit
Chairmen of intelligence agencies edit
Intelligence Organization edit
Intelligence Protection Organization edit
Supreme Leader Representatives edit
| No. | Portrait | Representative | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hassan Lahouti | 1979 | 1979 | 0 years | – | |
| 2 | Fazlollah Mahallati | 1980 | 1981 | 0–1 years | – | |
| 3 | Hassan Taheri-Khorramabadi | 1981 | 1982 | 0–1 years | – | |
| 4 | Mohammad-Reza Faker | 1982 | 1983 | 0–1 years | – | |
| (2) | Fazlollah Mahallati | 1983 | 1986 | 2–3 years | – | |
| 5 | Abdollah Nouri (born 1950) | 1989 | 1990 | 0–1 years | – | |
| 6 | Mahmoud Mohammadi-Araghi | 1990 | 1991 | 0–1 years | – | |
| 7 | Ali Movahedi-Kermani (born 1931) | 1991 | 2006 | 14–15 years | – | |
| 8 | Ali Saeedi Shahroudi | 2006 | 2018 | 11–12 years | – | |
| 9 | Abdollah Hajisadeghi | 2018 | Incumbent | 5–6 years | – |
Ministers edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f Steven O'Hern (2012). Iran's Revolutionary Guard: The Threat That Grows While America Sleeps. Potomac Books, Inc. pp. 18, 22–23. ISBN 978-1597977012.
- ^ a b c d e f Nikola B. Schahgaldian, Gina Barkhordarian (March 1987), The Iranian Military Under the Islamic Republic (PDF), RAND, p. 118, ISBN 978-0-8330-0777-3, retrieved 15 January 2017
- ^ Sinkaya, Bayram (2015), The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics: Elites and Shifting Relations, Routledge, pp. 96–97, ISBN 978-1317525646
- ^ a b c d e Forozan, Hesam (2015), The Military in Post-Revolutionary Iran: The Evolution and Roles of the Revolutionary Guards, Routledge, Table 2.1: Commander-in-Chief of the Sepah Since 1979, p 59, ISBN 9781317430742
- ^ Gladstone, Rick. "Iran's Supreme Leader Replaces Head of Revolutionary Guards". NYT. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
- ^ Allamian, Saeed (2016). I say for the history: Memories of Mohsen Rafighdoust (in Persian). Soore-ye Mehr. p. 127. ISBN 9786000302931. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
- ^ Katzman, Kenneth (September 1993). "The Pasdaran: institutionalization of revolutionary armed force". Iranian Studies. 26 (3–4): 389–402. doi:10.1080/00210869308701809.