Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Joint Staff

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Dissolved office of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Joint Staff of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
ستاد مشترک سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی
Seal of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Founded	1984
Disbanded	2008
Headquarters	Tehran, Iran

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.

List of Chiefs

No.	Chief	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Ref.
1	Afshar, AlirezaAlireza Afshar (born c. 1951)	1984	1987	2–3 years	–
2	Forouzandeh, MohammadMohammad Forouzandeh (born 1960)	1987	1989	1–2 years	–
3	Zolghadr, Mohammad BagherBrigadier general Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr (born c. 1954/1955)	1989	1997	7–8 years	–
4	Alaei, HosseinBrigadier general Hossein Alaei	1997	2000	2–3 years	–
5	Ahmadian, Ali AkbarBrigadier general Ali Akbar Ahmadian	2000	2007	6–7 years	–
6	Hejazi, MohammadBrigadier general Mohammad Hejazi (1956–2021)	2007	2008	0–1 years	–

References

^ ^a ^b 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
^ Sinkaya, Bayram (2015), The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics: Elites and Shifting Relations, Routledge, p. 53, ISBN 978-1-317-52564-6

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Commanders

Forces

Military Branches

Former divisions	8th Najaf Ashraf 14th Imam Hossein 17th Ali ibn Abi Taleb 25th Karbala 27th Mohammad Rasulullah 31st Ashura 33rd Al-Mahdi 41st Tharallah
Provincial Corps	Ardabil Hazrat Abbas East Azerbaijan Ashura West Azerbaijan Shohada Bushehr Imam Sadiq Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Qamar Bani Hashim Fars Fajr Gilan Quds Golestan Neynava Hamedan Ansar al-Hussain Hormozgan Imam Sajjad Ilam Amir al-Muminin Isfahan Sahib-az-Zaman Kerman Sarallah Kermanshah Nabi Akram Khuzestan Valieasr Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Fath Kurdistan Beit ol-Moqaddas South Khorasan Ansar al-Ridha Razavi Khorasan Imam Reza Razavi Khorasan Jawad al-Aemmah Losrestan Hazrat Abalfazl Mazandaran Karbala Markazi Ruhollah Tehran Muhammad Rasoul-Allah Tehran Sayid al-Shohada Qazvin Sahib al-Amr Qom Ali ibn Abi-Talib Semnan Qaim Aale-Muhammad Sistan and Baluchestan Salman Yazd Al-Ghadir Zanjan Ansar al-Mahdi

Former divisions