Post: | Chief of the General Staff |
Body: | the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran |
Insignia: | Seal of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.svg |
Insigniacaption: | Seal of the General Staff of the Armed Forces |
Flag: | Flag of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.svg |
Flagcaption: | Flag of the General Staff of the Armed Forces |
Incumbent: | Major General Mohammad Bagheri |
Incumbentsince: | 28 June 2016 |
Department: | Armed Forces of Iran |
Type: | Chief of the General Staff |
Reports To: | Military office of the Supreme Leader[1] |
Appointer: | Supreme Leader of Iran |
Formation: | June 1988[2] [3] [4] |
First: | Hassan Firouzabadi |
Deputy: | Brigadier general Aziz Nasirzadeh |
General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: ستاد کل نیروهای مسلح جمهوری اسلامی ایران|Setad-e Kol-e Niruha-ye Mosallah-e Jomhuri-ye Islami-ye Iran) is the most senior military body in Iran, to implement policy, monitor and coordinate activities within the Armed Forces.[5]
Iran's two existing separate militaries, the Islamic Republic of Iran Army (Arteš) and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Sepāh) are formally subordinate to the general staff, as well as Iran's sole national police force, the Law Enforcement Command.
The organization was set up in 1989 to enhance cooperation and counterbalance the rivalry between the armed forces and is directly decreed by Supreme Leader of Iran, while the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics, responsible for planning, logistics and funding of the armed forces is part of the executive branch under the President of Iran.
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