Ezzatollah Zarghami (Field marshal)

Ezzatollah Zarghami (d. 1287 AH) was an Iranian military officer and military commander of the Imperial Iranian Army. Zarghami commanded the Imperial Iranian Army (ground forces) from 1344 to 1347 (1965-69).

Ezzatollah Zarghami was the son of Major General Azizollah Zarghami and father of Mehdi Zarghami.^[1]

Zarghami graduated from the Officer's College in 1308 (c. 1927). For a while, he was the head of the Faculty of the Officers' College, the head of the first staff column, and the commander of the Khorasan Division. He eventually became the acting chief of staff and rose to the rank of major general. He then became the commander of the ground forces 1965-69 and retired. After retirement, he became the governor of East Azerbaijan and then a senator in the seventh term of the Senate of Iran.^[2]