Hossein Salami

Sardar
Hossein Salami
Born 1960 (age 57–58)
Golpayegan, Iran
Allegiance Iran
Service/branch Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Years of service 1981–present
Rank Brigadier general
Commands held
Battles/wars Iran–Iraq War

Hossein Salami (Persian: حسین سلامی‎) is an Iranian military officer with the rank of Brigadier general, who currently serves as the second-in-command of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.[1][2]

Biography

Hossein Salami was born in 1960 in Golpayegan, Isfahan province, Iran. In 1978, he was accepted in the mechanical engineering department at the Iran University of Science and Technology. When the Iran–Iraq War started, he joined the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. After the war, he continued his study and graduated with a Master's degree in defense management.[3]

Responsibilities

In the news

At a sermon in Tehran that aired on IRIB TV on 1 July 2016, Salami stated that "Today, more than ever, there is fertile ground – with the grace of God – for the annihilation, the wiping out, and the collapse of the Zionist regime." Salami claimed that "only in Lebanon, more than 100,000 Qaem missiles are ready for launch… so that any time the Zionist regime seeks to repeat its previous mistakes with miscalculations, these missiles would… come down on the heart of the Zionist regime and be the prelude for a big collapse in the modern era... They are just waiting for the command, so that when the trigger is pulled, the accursed black dot will be wiped off the geopolitical map of the world, once and for all."[4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Iranian Guard commander: Our 'hands remain on the trigger' to attack Israel". The Journalism post. 11 March 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "خبرگزاری فارس - سردار سلامي جانشين فرمانده كل سپاه شد" [Sardar Salami succeeds the commanding officer] (in Persian). Fars News Agency. 4 October 2009.
  3. 1 2 "Biography of Hossein Salami". Shakhsiat Negar. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Iran anti-Israel protests highlight regional conflicts by Eric Randolph and Ali Noorani, Yahoo news, July 1, 2016.
  5. ↑ Thousands rally in Iran on al-Quds day, Al Jazeera, July 2016.
  6. ↑ 100,000 Qaem missiles in Lebanon trained on Israel: Iran cmdr, PressTV, 1 July 2016.
Military offices
Preceded by
Mohammad Reza Zahedi
as Commander of Air Force		 Commander of the Revolutionary Guards Aerospace Force
21 January 2006 – 4 October 2009		 Succeeded by
Amir Ali Hajizadeh
Preceded by
Mohammad Hejazi		 Deputy Commander of the Revolutionary Guards
4 October 2009 – Present		 Incumbent
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