Gholam Ali Rashid

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Gholam Ali Rashid (Persian: غلامعلی رشید;‎ 23 September 1953 – 13 June 2025) was an Iranian military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who served as the commander of Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters. He was assassinated by Israeli strikes on Iran on 13 June 2025. Rashid held a master's degree in political geography from the University of Tehran and a doctorate in political geography from Tarbiat Modares University. He began his political activism against the Pahlavi regime in 1978 as a member of militant groups on the path to establishing an Islamic state and fighting the imperial regime of Pahlavi, in support of Ruhollah Khomeini to establishing "Islamic Republic". Rashid was arrested and imprisoned twice by the secret police of the Imperial State of Iran (SAVAK) before the victory of the 1979 Iranian revolution. Rashid was one of the senior commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) during the Iran–Iraq War and participated in all major operations...

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