Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (Iran)

Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics

وزارت دفاع و پشتیبانی نیروهای مسلح جمهوری اسلامی ایران
Agency overview
Formed	22 August 1989
Jurisdiction	Islamic Republic of Iran
Headquarters	Tehran, Iran
Minister responsible	Hossein Dehghan
Website	http://www.mod.ir/

The Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL) is the defense ministry of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It was formed in 1989 and has control both over Iran's regular forces and over its Revolutionary Guard, particularly bringing the latter under the overall defense umbrella by reducing its institutional autonomy, abolishing its independent ministry and bringing its command structures under the new Ministry.

The ministry is one of the three "sovereign" ministrial bodies of Iran due to nature of its work at home and abroad.

Ministers of Defense

• Ahmad Madani (February 1979 - September 1979)
• Mostafa Chamran (1979–1980)
• Javad Fakoori, (1980–1981)
• Mousa Namjoo, (1981)
• Mohammad Salimi (1981–1985)
• Mohammad Hossein Jalali (1985–1989)
• Akbar Torkan, (1989–1993)
• Mohammad Forouzandeh, (1993–1997)
• Ali Shamkhani, (1997–2005)
• Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar, (2005–2009)
• Ahmad Vahidi, (2009–2013)
• Hossein Dehghan, (2013–present)

See also

• Military of Iran

References

• http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iran/mod.htm
• Anthony H. Cordesman, Iran's military forces in transition