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Mohammad Ali Jafari

1957 - Today

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Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari (Persian: محمدعلی جعفری, born 1 September 1957, also known as Aziz Jafari and Ali Jafari) is a retired Iranian military officer who was the commander-in-chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from 2007 to 2019. He was appointed by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on 1 September 2007, succeeding Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi. According to a 2 September 2007 report by Radio Free Europe, Radio Farda, Jafari was close to the conservative subfaction, which included Mohsen Rezaee, the secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council and former commander of the IRGC and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, a former IRGC member and the mayor of Tehran. The replacement of Safavi was thought to be a move to strengthen the conservative faction as a counterweight to the radicalizers around President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to whom Safavi was close. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Mohammad Ali Jafari is the 1,426th most popular military personnel (up from 1,854th in 2024), the 302nd most popular biography from Iran (up from 400th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Iranian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Mohammad Ali Jafari ranks 1,426 out of 2,058. Before him are Dmitry Milyutin, Sun Chuanfang, Estácio de Sá, Josef Kammhuber, Mikhail Diterikhs, and Eino Rahja. After him are Georgios Zoitakis, Friedrich Kirchner, Melvin Purvis, Pavel Batov, Guido Starhemberg, and Vladimir Kappel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Mohammad Ali Jafari ranks 163. Before him are Paul Reiser, Amanda Plummer, Zé Sérgio, Ramaz Shengelia, Susanna Tamaro, and Len Blavatnik. After him are Tina Ambani, Genie, John T. Dunlap, Kate Burton, Yoshinori Ishigami, and Steve Jordan.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Mohammad Ali Jafari ranks 302 out of 631. Before him are Malek Jahan Khanom (1805), Sohrab Sepehri (1928), Ali Akbar Velayati (1945), Lady Adela (1847), Mohammad Reza Aref (1951), and Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar (935). After him are Mohammad Javad Zarif (1960), Behrouz Vossoughi (1938), Sadegh Khalkhali (1926), Samad Behrangi (1939), Nima Yooshij (1897), and Ahmad Shamlou (1925).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Iran

Among military personnels born in Iran, Mohammad Ali Jafari ranks 11. Before him are Hossein Salami (1960), Mohammad Bagheri (1960), Harpagus (-700), Esmail Ghaani (1957), Abdolrahim Mousavi (1960), and Amir Ali Hajizadeh (1962). After him are Mohammad Pakpour (null), Ahmad Vahidi (1958), Mohammad Reza Zahedi (1960), Jalil Zandi (1951), Amir Hatami (null), and Mohammad-Reza Gharaei Ashtiani (1960).

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