Ministry of Revolutionary Guards
- Merged into Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics
Ministry of Guards (Persian: وزارت سپاه, romanized: Vezārat-e Sepāh) was a government ministry in Iran between 1982 and 1989,[3] which mainly acted as a ministry of defence dedicated to logistically supply the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.[1] By having its own ministry, the Corps were able to acquire a powerful voice in the cabinet of Iran.[4] It also implied greater regulation and supervision over the Corps by placing its acquisitions and purchases under and the audit and purview of the government.[1]
It mirrored the existing parallel Ministry of National Defence[4] (the word "National" was dropped in 1984) which solely supported and addressed the administrative affairs of the Iranian Army (Artesh) during these years.[2] In 1989, it was dissolved and reintegrated into the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL),[3] in order to centralize military logistics among the Iranian Armed Forces.[2]
Ministers
No. | Portrait | Minister | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Ref. |
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1 | ![]() | Rafighdoost, MohsenMohsen Rafighdoost (born 1940) | November 1982 | 13 September 1988 | 5 years, 317 days | [1] |
– | ![]() | Pakravaan, MahmoudMahmoud Pakravaan Acting | 13 September 1988 | 20 September 1988 | 7 days | [5] |
2 | ![]() | Shamkhani, AliAli Shamkhani (born 1955) | 20 September 1988 | 21 August 1989 | 335 days | [1] |
References
- ^ a b c d e f Rahnema, Ali (February 20, 2013) [December 15, 2008]. "ii. Jamʿiyat-e Moʾtalefa and the Islamic Revolution". JAMʿIYAT-E MOʾTALEFA-YE ESLĀMI i. Hayʾathā-ye Moʾtalefa-ye Eslāmi 1963–79. Encyclopædia Iranica. Fasc. 5. Vol. XIV. New York City: Bibliotheca Persica Press. pp. 483–500. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
- ^ a b c Sinkaya, Bayram (2015), The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics: Elites and Shifting Relations, Routledge, pp. 55–56, ISBN 978-1-317-52564-6
- ^ a b Frederic Wehrey; Jerrold D. Green; Brian Nichiporuk; Alireza Nader; Lydia Hansell; Rasool Nafisi; S. R. Bohandy (2009), The Rise of the Pasdaran: Assessing the Domestic Roles of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (PDF), RAND Corporation, p. 110, ISBN 978-0-8330-4620-8
- ^ a b Daniel Byman; Shahram Chubin; Anoushiravan Ehteshami; Jerrold D. Green (2015), Iran's Security Policy in the Post-Revolutionary Era, RAND Corporation, p. 35, ISBN 978-0-8330-2971-3
- ^ Allamian, Saeed (2016). For The Record: Memoirs of Mohsen Rafighdoost (in Persian). Tehran: Soore Mehr. p. 421. ISBN 978-600-030-293-1.
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