IRGC Officers

The JCPOA requires the US and EU to remove a number of officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from sanctions lists.

 

Ali Akbar Tabatabaei, Commander of the Qods Force in Africa in 2012

Qasem Soleimani, Major General and Commander of the Qods Force

Hosein Salami, Brigadier General 1st Class and Deputy Commander, IRGC

Yahya Rahim Safavi, Major General and former Commander of the IRGC, currently senior military adviser to Ayatollah Khamenei

Morteza Safari, Rear Admiral, former commander of IRGC Navy, currently head of training at the IRGC's Imam Hossein University

Morteza Rezaie, Brigadier General, former Deputy Commander of the IRGC

Mohammad Bagher Zolqadr, Brigadier General 1st Class and former Deputy Interior Minister for Security

Mohammad Reza Zahedi, Brigadier General 1st Class and former commander of the IRGC Ground Forces

Ali Fadavi, Rear Admiral and Commander of the IRGC Navy

Seyyed Mahdi Farahi, Brigadier General 1st Class and Deputy Minister of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics

Azim Aqhajani, Qods Force member (rank and position unknown)

Ali Akbar Ahmadian, Brigadier General 1st Class, head of IRGC Strategic Studies Center

Mohammad Hejazi, Brigadier General 1st Class, former commander of the Basij Resistance Force, now deputy at Armed Forces General Staff

Mohammad Reza Naghdi, Brigadier General 1st Class, Basij Commander

Mohammad Pakpour, Brigadier General 1st Class, Commander of IRGC Ground Forces

Ali Shamshiri, Brigadier General 1st Class, Advisor to MODAFL, formerly IRGC Deputy Chief of Joint Staff

Ahmad Vahidi, Brigadier General 1st Class, former commander of the Qods Force, currently president of the IRGC Strategic Defense Studies Center