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Mousa Namjoo
Iranian military officer and government minister (1938–1981) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mousa Namjoo (Persian: سید موسی نامجو; 17 December 1938 – 29 September 1981) was an Iranian military officer who served as the minister of defence from August to September 1981.
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Biography
Namjoo was born in Bandar-e Anzali on 17 December 1938.[1] He graduated from Officers' School.[2] He was married and had three children.[3]
He worked at the National Military Academy with the rank of colonel.[4][5][6] He was instrumental in developing a cooperation between the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and army before and during the Iran Iraq war.[6] He also fought in the war.[7] He was appointed minister of defence and armed forces logistics to the interim government led by Prime Minister Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani on 2 September 1981.[8][9]
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Death
Namjoo was killed in a plane crash together with 80 other people on 29 September 1981 near Tehran.[5][7] The aircraft was a US-made C-130 Hercules transport plane.[10][11] Other leading military figures killed in the crash were Valiollah Fallahi, Javad Fakoori and Yousef Kolahdouz.[12][13] They were returning to Tehran from southwestern battlefront with Iraq.[14] On 1 October 1981, a funeral service was held for Namjoo and other victims at the military academy in Tehran.[10]
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini made a speech following the incident indicating the Mujahedeen Khalq as the perpetrator without clearly condemning the leftist group.[14]
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Legacy
Namjoo's biography entitled A Man with Orange Color was published by Ezzatollah Alvandi in 2005.[15]
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