Intelligence Protection Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Not to be confused with Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The Intelligence Protection Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Persian: سازمان حفاظت اطلاعات سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی, Sazman-e Hefazat-e Sepah) is an Iranian intelligence agency within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and part of Council for Intelligence Coordination.^[1]

The agency split from Intelligence unit of IRGC in 1984, and was mainly a military intelligence unit. In 1991, the agency was restructured as an independent organization reporting to the Supreme Leader of Iran, mainly tasked with IRGC personnel surveillance and combating espionage inside the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.^[2]

The Intelligence Protection Organization has three subsidiary units: the Supreme Leader’s Protection Corps (Sazman-e Sepah-e Vali-e Amr); the Ansar-al-Mahdi Protection Unit; and the Aviation Protection Organization (or Airlines' Protection Unit) (Sepah-e Hefazat-e Havapeimaei).^[3]

Chairmen

No.	Chairman	Rank	Took office	Left office
1	Ali Saeedi Shahroudi	None (Clergyman)	20 November 1984[4]	6 March 1994[5]
2	Morteza Rezaee	Brigadier General	6 March 1994[5]	6 May 2006[6]
3	Gholam-Hossein Ramezani	None (Clergyman)	6 May 2006[6]	?[a]
4	Mohammad Kazemi	Brigadier General	?[b]	26 June 2022
5	Majid Khademi	Brigadier General	26 June 2022	Incumbent

See also

• Parallel Intelligence Agency
• Intelligence Protection Organization of Islamic Republic of Iran Army, similar agency

Notes

1. before 2011^[7]
2. before 2014^[8]