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Esmail Ghaani

1957 - Today

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Esmail Qaani (also rendered as Ismail Qaani; Persian: اسماعیل قاآنی, romanized: Esmāʾil Qāʾānī;‎ 8 August 1957) is an Iranian brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who serves as the commander of the IRGC Quds Force, an elite special operations force responsible for extraterritorial operations. Qaani succeeded Qasem Soleimani as Quds Force commander after Soleimani was assassinated in January 2020. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Esmail Ghaani is the 926th most popular military personnel (up from 1,035th in 2019), the 228th most popular biography from Iran (up from 238th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Iranian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Esmail Ghaani ranks 926 out of 2,058. Before him are Joseph Stilwell, Georg von der Marwitz, Peter Lacy, Sergey Biryuzov, Otto Wöhler, and George B. McClellan. After him are Fritz von Below, Karl Frenzel, Fritz Freitag, Mario Roatta, Princess Pingyang, and Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Esmail Ghaani ranks 100. Before him are Paweł Pawlikowski, Tony Martin, Timothy Spall, Joaquim de Almeida, Ikuo Takahara, and Lucélia Santos. After him are Víctor Muñoz, Włodzimierz Smolarek, Mikhail Pletnev, Ted Levine, Shigeru Ban, and Bruce Rauner.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Esmail Ghaani ranks 228 out of 631. Before him are Fazlollah Zahedi (1897), Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri (933), Safi al-Din al-Urmawi (1216), Shaul Mofaz (1948), Al-Taftazani (1322), and Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli (854). After him are Shahrokh Shah (1734), Amir Kabir (1807), Ibn al-Faqih (null), Amir-Abbas Hoveyda (1919), Masawaiyh (777), and Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar (1906).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Iran

Among military personnels born in Iran, Esmail Ghaani ranks 7. Before him are Tughril (990), Qasem Soleimani (1957), Bahram Chobin (600), Datis (-600), Hossein Salami (1960), and Harpagus (-700). After him are Mohammad Ali Jafari (1957), Ahmad Vahidi (1958), Jalil Zandi (1951), Razi Mousavi (1962), and Nasser Shabani (1957).

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