Ali Motazed

Ali Motazed (Persian: علی معتضد), also known as Ali Nakhjiri Esfahani (Persian: علی نخجیری اصفهانی), was Deputy head of SAVAK during the reign of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.^[1]

Timsar Ali Motazed
Ambassadors of Iran to Syria
In office August 1978 – 11 February 1979
Monarch	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Preceded by	Mohammad Poursartip
Succeeded by	Abdulrahim Gawahi
Deputy head of SAVAK
In office 1973 – 6 June 1978
Monarch	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Prime Minister	Jamshid Amouzegar
Preceded by	Hossein Fardoust
Succeeded by	Parviz Sabeti
Personal details
Born	Ali Nakhjiri Esfahani Isfahan
Alma mater	Iranian Military Academy
Military service
Allegiance	Iran
Branch/service	Imperial Iranian Armed Forces
Rank	Major general
Commands	SAVAK

Ali Motazed spent his primary and secondary school years in Isfahan and Nezam High School. In 1934, he entered the officer's college and in 1937, he graduated with the rank of second lieutenant in the field of artillery. Motazed served in the army headquarters until Pakravan's over Director of SAVAK, after which he was assigned to SAVAK and became the head of SAVAK's foreign intelligence service.^[2] He remained in this position throughout the 1960s. On June 8, 1978, when Nematollah Nassiri replaced with Nasser Moghaddam, he resigned from the position of SAVAK deputy and was sent to Syria as an ambassador.^[3]