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The following individuals have been identified as commanding 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
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force or Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Air and Space Force [64] (IRGCASF; Persian: نیروی هوافضای سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی, romanized: niru-ye havâfazây-e sepâh-e pâsdârân-e enghelâb-e eslâmi, officially acronymed NEHSA) [citation needed] is the ...
Qasem Soleimani (Persian: قاسم سلیمانی, romanized: Qâsem Soleymâni; 11 March 1957 [note 1] – 3 January 2020) was an Iranian military officer who served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards are likely to play a central role if the country retaliates for the assassination of its close ally Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last week. Following are ...
Hossein Salami (Persian: حسین سلامی; born 1960 (کونی بزرگ)is an Iranian military officer who is the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. [2] [3] [4] Born in Golpayegan, he joined the IRGC during the Iran–Iraq War, when he was a college student. He rose through the ranks, becoming deputy commander.
The modern Middle East has seen a number of occasions in which the assassination of high-level government and military figures was attempted, or at least considered. Such instances include United States decapitation strike air raids targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 1986 and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 1991, 1998, and 2003, in addition to killings or attempted killings of non-state ...
The commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard warned Friday that “our brave men will punish the Zionist regime,” escalating threats against Israel for an airstrike that killed seven of ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Quds Force Founded 1988 ; 37 years ago (1988) as an independent force Country Iran Type Special operations force Role Extraterritorial operations, Unconventional warfare, Military Intelligence, Black operations Size 5,000 Part of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Engagements Iran–Iraq War Soviet ...