Mohammad Reza Zahedi

Mohammad Reza Zahedi

Mohammad Reza Zahedi (Persian: محمدرضا زاهدی; 2 November 1960 – 1 April 2024) was an Iranian military officer. A senior figure within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), he had previously commanded the IRGC Aerospace Force and the IRGC Ground Forces, and was commanding the Quds Force unit 18000 in Lebanon and Syria at the time of his death. In 2024, Zahedi was killed by an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, he was the only Iranian to sit on the Shura, or guiding council, of Hezbollah. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Mohammad Reza Zahedi is the 1,725th most popular military personnel, the 366th most popular biography from Iran and the 12th most popular Iranian Military Personnel.

Mohammad Reza Zahedi was an Iranian military officer best known for his role as the commander of the Imperial Iranian Army during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. He played a significant part in the military's response to the uprising and subsequently fled Iran after the revolution.