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eader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has appointed Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri as the new Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces.

In his decree on Tuesday, the Leader urged Baqeri to improve the defensive and security capabilities of the Armed Forces and prepare the ground for the “timely and effective response to any level and kind of threat against the Islamic establishment.”

Major General Baqeri is a veteran commander of Iran's Armed Forces and he is the brother of Mohammad Hassan Baqeri who was the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) first Intelligence and Operations Commander and martyred in 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. The martyred Baqeri is recognized as a war hero.

Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri formerly served as the deputy chief of staff of Armed Forces for intelligence and also the head of the Armed Forces General Staff for joint affairs.

He replaces Major General Hassan Firouzabadi.

In another decree, Ayatollah Khamenei appointed General Firouzabadi as the senior military adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, who is also Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces.

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eader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has appointed Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri as the new Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces.
So army chief is not appointed by the president?
 
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Will he remain a Maj.Gen, or will he be promoted?
 
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I still really don't understand the logic behind having two competing armed forces, that technically serve the same operational purpose. One has to reason that they're both either getting satisfactory funding (which is really a waste of resources), or they're both competing for funds (which is inefficient).
 
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I still really don't understand the logic behind having two competing armed forces, that technically serve the same operational purpose. One has to reason that they're both either getting satisfactory funding (which is really a waste of resources), or they're both competing for funds (which is inefficient).
they are neither parallel forces, nor competing. They have different roles in different fields or regions. where IRGC serves, army doesn't and vice versa.
 
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So army chief is not appointed by the president?
According Constitution of Iran, Supreme Leader of Iran is the commander in chief of the Iranian armed forces, not president. The Leader appoints and dismisses the heads of the Army , the Revolutionary Guards and the General Staff

Will he remain a Maj.Gen, or will he be promoted?
Major General de facto now is highest military rank in Iranian military. Last time the rank of Lieutenant General was given to famous general Ali Sayyed Shirazi, he was assasinated by MEK terrorists in 1999.
 
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they are neither parallel forces, nor competing. They have different roles in different fields or regions. where IRGC serves, army doesn't and vice versa.

Could you explain further? What does each force do, and not do?
 
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they are neither parallel forces, nor competing. They have different roles in different fields or regions. where IRGC serves, army doesn't and vice versa.
Is IRGC a paramilitary force? If not why can't the govt merge them into a unified force?
 
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Is IRGC a paramilitary force? If not why can't the govt merge them into a unified force?

Precisely.

Or is it, another possibility, a political/theological reserve force and weapon of last resort against both civilian and military deviation from the religious fundamentalism at the core of the regime?
 
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Precisely.

Or is it, another possibility, a political/theological reserve force and weapon of last resort against both civilian and military deviation from the religious fundamentalism at the core of the regime?
What I feel is that the revolutionary govt don't trust the army there might be some folks with coup tendency better to check them with a religious force but still why they can't merge em after all the shahs era generals have largely been purged out-----
 
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What I feel is that the revolutionary govt don't trust the army there might be some folks with coup tendency better to check them with a religious force but still why they can't merge em after all the shahs era generals have largely been purged out-----

There is a considerable amount of information about the extent to which increasingly prosperous Iranians are questioning the theological dictatorship. I don't think things are as tightly under control as this set of Mullahs would have the rest of the world believe.
 
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There is a considerable amount of information about the extent to which increasingly prosperous Iranians are questioning the theological dictatorship. I don't think things are as tightly under control as this set of Mullahs would have the rest of the world believe.
AMIN TO THAT
 
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What I feel is that the revolutionary govt don't trust the army there might be some folks with coup tendency better to check them with a religious force but still why they can't merge em after all the shahs era generals have largely been purged out-----
forget your theory, the whole Iranian and it's armed forces are religious. in fact it's one required condition to get into any of them, army or IRGC.

Could you explain further? What does each force do, and not do?
Is IRGC a paramilitary force? If not why can't the govt merge them into a unified force?
IRGC is military force, yet it utilizes paramilitary forces (known as Basij) as their asymmetric warfare theory.
this warfare is the key difference between army and IRGC. and partially what has prevented their merge.

the military IRGC and everything about it was shaped gradually, starting with Iran-Iraq war, where we couldn't get the optimal results from our army in that war, IRGC utilized the ordinary people in the battlefield and as time passed it's military aspect was shaped.

today both of them have different roles, so they don't collide. for example IRGC navy protects the Persian Gulf against our main enemy U.S with it's asymmetric tactics and tools (so they utilize speed armed boats and anti ship missiles) while army protects the Oman sea and our interests in the high seas with it's conventional warships which is the requirement in the high seas. the responsibility of protecting our airspace is mainly with army airforce, so while IRGC has it's airforce too, their birds are mostly (if not all) for the combat support. operation in the foreign countries is the responsibility of the IRGC ground forces, that's why you wont hear about our army in Iraq or Syria. and some new names in Iraq and Syria like "Popular Committees" or "Popular army" are in fact a copy of the Iranian Basij forces as part of asymmetric warfare which is being practiced by IRGC in these two countries.

today both forces are functioning just fine, merging them will require plenty of resources which I doubt any government would afford it, specially in our special conditions in the region. afterall having two different armies has its own advantages and disadvantages.

There is a considerable amount of information about the extent to which increasingly prosperous Iranians are questioning the theological dictatorship. I don't think things are as tightly under control as this set of Mullahs would have the rest of the world believe.
both our leaders and type of system has been chosen by people in free elections, directly or indirectly. so either you don't know the meaning of dictatorship or you don't know our system.
Iran has the highest grade of democracy in the world, and I'm willing to challenge anyone on this.
that considerable amount is a propaganda by the media which is mostly controlled by Zionists.
 
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