Mohammad Ali Jafari
Mohammad Ali Jafari ( Persian محمد علی جعفری, also called Aziz Jafari or Ali Jafari ; * September 1, 1957 in Yazd ) is an Iranian major general and former commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (Pasdaran).
Life
Jafari studied architecture at the University of Tehran from 1977 . During the Islamic Revolution , he joined the Islamic Student Movement, called “Students Who Follow the Imam's Line ” (daneschdschuyan-e chat'-e emam), and actively participated in demonstrations to overthrow Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi . Meanwhile, he is said to have been arrested several times and interrogated and tortured by the Shah's secret service ( SAVAK ) in the notorious Evin prison .
After the overthrow of the Shah, he was one of those students who held the American embassy in Tehran for 444 days ( see: Tehran hostage-taking ). In September 1980, at the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war , he volunteered ( Basiji ) for combat operations and followed the newly founded volunteer militia Basij-e Mostaz'afin to the front. As a result, he became a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in 1981, where he became the head of various ground forces, such as the Ashura unit and the Najaf division , in the war against Iraq .
After the war, he kept a leading position in the ground troops, finished his architecture studies and served as commander of the Pasdaran for thirteen years. In 2005 he founded the “strategic center” of the Pasdaran in Tehran called Sarallah . Mohammad Ali Jafari is considered an Iraq expert and hardliner within the Revolutionary Guard.
On September 1, 2007, Jafari was appointed commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (Pasdaran) by the Supreme Legal Scholar and Revolutionary Leader of Iran , Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamene'i . His predecessor was Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi , who headed the Revolutionary Guard for ten years.
Regarding a possible conflict with Israel over the establishment of an Iranian nuclear program , Jafari said on June 28, 2008: "The Zionist regime will not be able to match our armed forces and our capabilities." Every attack by Israel on its nuclear facilities will be Tehran, Jafari said retaliate with a rocket counter-attack. At the same time, he threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz . On July 25, 2009, Jafari declared: "Should the Zionist regime attack Iran, we would certainly strike a strike with our missiles at its nuclear facilities."
In April 2019, Hussein Salami was appointed to succeed Jafari as commander of the Revolutionary Guards.
Web links
- Pasdaranchef announces an asymmetrical war
- Calm or Storm Under Commander Jafari? (English)
- Short biography on hamshahrionline.ir ( Memento from February 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (farsi)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.tages-anzeiger.ch/dyn/news/ausland/787520.html
- ↑ Gero von Randow: Iran: Nuclear breakthrough? In: Zeit Online. September 19, 2007, accessed October 26, 2007 .
- ↑ http://www.zeit.de/news/artikel/2008/06/28/2561029.xml
- ↑ Iran threatens retaliatory strike against Israel's nuclear facilities reuters.com of July 25, 2009
- ↑ Change of leadership in the Revolutionary Guards. Retrieved April 22, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jafari, Mohammad Ali |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jafari, Aziz; Jafari, Ali |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian major general, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yazd , Iran |