Abdollah Najafi

Abdullah Najafi (Persian: عبدالله نجفی; born 1955) is a Brigadier General of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army, who was the Commander-in-Chief (fa) of the Iranian Army Ground Forces from May 8, 1991, to November 2, 1994.^[1] He entered the Army's Ground Forces Officers' Academy in 1967. After the 1979 Revolution, Najafi became a member of the Military Committee and the Office of Military Advisor to Ruhollah Khomeini. He headed the Presidential Military Working Group from 1988 to 1998.^[2] Between 1998 and 1991, Najafi served as Deputy Coordinator of the Army's Ground Forces, Deputy Coordinator of the Army's Joint Staff, and Deputy Coordinator of the Army's Ground Forces. In 1991, he was appointed Commander of the Army's Ground Forces, a position he held until 1994.^[3] He served as head of the General Office for Information Protection of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 1994 to 1997 before being replaced by Sayyed Hashem Hashemi (fa).

Amir Abdullah Najafi
Native name	عبدالله نجفی
Born	1955 (age 69–70) Hamadan province
Allegiance	Iran
Branch	Islamic Republic of Iran Army
Rank	Brigadier general
Commands	Iranian Army Ground Force
Conflicts	Iran–Iraq War

Biography

Abdullah Najafi was born in Hamadan province in 1994. He entered the Army High School in 1967 and then the Army Officers' Academy in 1969. After graduating, he was sent to the Isfahan Artillery Training Center to complete the artillery training course. After that, he was transferred to the Third Brigade of Hamedan in 1974 and served as an artillery commander in that unit until 1978.

After the revolution, he became a member of Ruhollah Khomeini's military committee in the army. Then, in 1979, he was transferred to the Officers' University for a short time as a company commander. With the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War, he was actively present in operational areas on several occasions.

He worked at the Abadan Operational Headquarters, providing reconnaissance and map reading training to the popular forces, Basij, and the Revolutionary Guards. After a few months, he returned to Tehran in 1980 and worked for 7 years in the Presidential Military Working Group. In 1988, he assumed the position of Deputy Coordinator of the Ground Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army, and subsequently served as Deputy Coordinator of the Army Joint Staff and then Deputy Coordinator of the Army Ground Forces.

Najafi was appointed Commander-in-Chief (fa) of the Ground Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army on May 8, 1991, and held this position until November 1994. Then, on November 2, 1994, he assumed the position of Director of the General Office for Information Protection of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran before being replaced by Sayyed Hashem Hashemi (fa) in 1997, and chairman of the Prisoners of War and Missing Persons Commissions, and held this position until November 1994. Najafi retired from the army in December 2004 with the rank of Brigadier General, and after that, he worked for a while in the Social Affairs Department of the Judiciary, then in the Headquarters for Encouraging Good and Preventing Evil.^[4]