Qasim Ali Zahir Nejad
Male, Deceased Person
1303 – 1378
Who was Qasim Ali Zahir Nejad?
Zahir Nejad was a Major General in the Army of Iran after the 1357 revolution.
Zahirnejad began studies in the Military University in 1330. He retired from the army in 1352 as a Lieutenant Colonel. After the 1357 revolution he returned to the army at the beginning of the unrest in Kurdistan and in 1358 as commander of Division 64 of Urmia. In 1359 he was named as a Brigadier General to command the whole country's Gendarmerie and Army and on 9 October 1360 was named President of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
During the Iran-Iraq war, his insistent implementation of classic combat commanders led to clashes with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, a unit which relies on the use of numerous small forces of infantry and armored equipment. He achieved the degree of Major General on the 6 November 1368. In 1378 he died of stroke.
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