Ali Sayyad Shirazi
Ali Sayyād Schirāzi (also Ali Sayad Shirazi , Persian علی صیاد شیرازی Ali Seyyād Schirazi , DMG ʿAlī Ṣaiyād Šīrāzī ; * May 13, 1944 in Kabud Gonbad, Tehran Province , Iran ; † April 10, 1999 in Tehran ) was Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces .
During the Iran-Iraq war , Shirazi rose to become one of the highest-ranking generals in Iran . After a Lockheed C-130 of the Iranian Air Force crashed on the return flight from the front with the entire army command on September 29, 1981 , the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini appointed him commander of the land forces of the Iranian army. He died in 1999 in an attack believed to have been committed by the People's Mujahedin .
Web links
Commons : Ali Sayyad Schirazi - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Iran Press Service: GENERAL SAYYAD SHIRAZI SHOT DEAD AMID FEAR OF RENEWED VIOLENCE
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shirazi, Ali Sayyad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shirazi, Ali Sayad; علی صیاد شیرازی (Persian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kabud Gonbad, Iran |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1999 |
| Place of death | Tehran |