Joint Staff of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Joint Staff of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Persian: ستاد مشترک سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی‎), formerly called General Staff[1] (ستاد کل), was the chief of staff of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with an aim to coordinate its military branches; and responsible for organization, support, and supervision of all executive affairs within the military.[2] The office was originally created in late 1984[1] General Provost of IRGC was a subdivision to the Joint Staff.

Joint Staff of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
ستاد مشترک سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی
Seal of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Founded1984
Disbanded2008
HeadquartersTehran, Iran

List of Chiefs
No. Portrait ChiefTook officeLeft officeTime in officeRef
1
Afshar, AlirezaBrigadier general
Alireza Afshar
(born c. 1951)		198419872–3 years–
2
Forouzandeh, MohammadMohammad Forouzandeh
(born 1960)		198719891–2 years–
3
Zolghadr, Mohammad BagherBrigadier general
Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr
(born c. 1954/1955)		198919977–8 years–
4
Alaei, HosseinBrigadier general
Hossein Alaei		199720002–3 years–
5
Ahmadian, Ali AkbarAli Akbar Ahmadian200020076–7 years–
6
Hejazi, MohammadBrigadier general
Mohammad Hejazi
(born 1956)		200720080–1 years–

See also

References
  1. Cordesman, Anthony H. (1999), Iran's Military Forces in Transition: Conventional Threats and Weapons of Mass Destruction, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 35, ISBN 0-275-96529-5
  2. Sinkaya, Bayram (2015), The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics: Elites and Shifting Relations, Routledge, p. 53, ISBN 1-317-52564-7


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