Order of Courage (Iran)

For other uses, see Order of Courage (disambiguation).

Order of Courage or Bravery (Persian: نشان شجاعت) is an Iranian state general order established by "The Council of Iran Ministers" on November 21, 1990. The order has three classes. According to Article 14 of the Regulations on the Awarding of Government Orders of Iran, the Order of Courage awarded by President of Iran to recognize "courage, a high class characteristic of human in achieving distinguished success" in one of the following:^[1][2][3][4]

1. Volunteer to accomplish a difficult task which is critical for the country
2. Accepting a serious state mission or a social duty that is accompanied by potential threats
3. Opportune use of physical power and skills to reach a high goal

Order of Courage
First class of the Order
Type	National order
Established	By Council of Iran Ministers on November 21, 1990
Country	Islamic Republic of Iran
Ribbon
Awarded by	President of Iran
Grades	First Order Second Order Third Order

Recipients

No.	Recipient Name	Badge	Type	Donator	Date
1.	Rasoul Khadem	Order of Courage	First Order	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	October 6, 1996 [5][6][7]
2.	Abbas Jadidi	Order of Courage	Second Order	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	October 6, 1996 [8][9][7]
3.	Amir Reza Khadem	Order of Courage	Third Order	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	October 6, 1996 [10][11][7]
4.	Mohammad Shahsavari	Order of Courage	Third Order	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	January 16, 1997 [12][13]
5.	Habibollah Nazerian Khabari	Order of Courage	Third Order	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	August 2, 1997 [14][7]
6.	Heydar Bahmani	Order of Courage	Third Order	Mohammad Khatami	January 10, 2001 [15][16][7]
7.	Hossein Rezazadeh	Order of Courage	First Order	Mohammad Khatami	January 9, 2003 [17][18][19]
8.	Alireza Dabir	Order of Courage	Second Order	Mohammad Khatami	January 9, 2003 [18][19][7]
9.	Hadi Saei	Order of Courage	Third Order	Mohammad Khatami	January 9, 2003 [18][19][20][7]
10.	Mohammad Taghi Maghoul	Order of Courage	Third Order	Mohammad Khatami	July 30, 2003 [21][22][23][7]
11.	Ali Daei	Order of Courage	Third Order	Mohammad Khatami	July 25, 2004 [24][25][26]
12.	Abolghasem Amangah	Order of Courage	Third Order	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	April 4, 2007 [27][28][29][30]
13.	Mohammadreza Mirzayi Jaberi	Order of Courage	First Order	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	May 13, 2007 [31][32][33][34]
14.	Mokhtar Noorafshan	Order of Courage	First Order	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	May 13, 2007 [35][36][37][33][34]
15.	Gholamreza Hassani	Order of Courage	First Order	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	April 3, 2011 [38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][7]
16.	Mohammad Bana	Order of Courage	First Order	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	September 19, 2012 [47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][41][42][43][44][45][46]
17.	Kourosh Bagheri	Order of Courage	Third Order	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	September 19, 2012 [47][50][52][53][55][56][57][58][41][42][43][44][45][46]
18.	Ali Akbar Salehi	Order of Courage	First Order	Hassan Rouhani	February 8, 2016 [59][60][61][62][63][64][65]
19.	Hossein Dehghan	Order of Courage	First Order	Hassan Rouhani	February 8, 2016 [59][60][61][62][63][64][65]
20.	Noorkhoda Mousavi	Order of Courage	First Order	Hassan Rouhani	March 7, 2016 [66][67]

Classes

It comes in three classes:

• 
  1st Order
• 
  2nd Order
• 
  3rd Order

See also

• Order of Merit and Management
• Order of Freedom (Iran)
• Order of Altruism
• Order of Work and Production
• Order of Research
• Order of Mehr
• Order of Justice (Iran)
• Order of Construction
• Order of Knowledge
• Order of Education and Pedagogy
• Order of Persian Politeness
• Order of Independence (Iran)
• Order of Service
• Order of Culture and Art