Mostafa Chamran

Mostafa Chamran

Mostafa Chamran Save'ei (Persian: مصطفی چمران ساوه‌ای) (2 October 1932 – 21 June 1981) was an Iranian physicist, politician, commander and guerrilla fighter who served as the first defense minister of post-revolutionary Iran and a member of parliament as well as the commander of paramilitary volunteers in Iran–Iraq War, known as "Irregular Warfare Headquarters". He was killed during the Iran–Iraq War. In Iran, he is known as a martyr and a symbol of an ideological and revolutionary Muslim who left academic careers and prestigious positions as a scientist and professor in the US, University of California, Berkeley and migrated in order to help the Islamic movements in Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt as a chief revolutionary guerilla, as well as in the Islamic revolution of Iran. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mostafa Chamran has received more than 225,875 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Mostafa Chamran is the 10,310th most popular politician (down from 8,782nd in 2019), the 254th most popular biography from Iran (down from 220th in 2019) and the 129th most popular Iranian Politician.