Order of Fath

Fath Medal
250px All grades of Order of Fath
Awarded by Commander-in-chief Supreme Leader of Iran
Country	Iran
Type	Decoration
Status	Currently awarded
Statistics
First awarded	September 27, 1989
Precedence
Equivalent	Fath grade 1 Fath grade 2 Fath grade 3
Ribbon of the medal

Fath Medal (Persian: نشان فتح‎‎, meaning Victory Medal) is a military award of Iranian armed forces which is awarded by Commander-in-chief, Supreme Leader of Iran. The medal is the likeness of three Palm leaves over Khorramshahr's grand mosque (as a symbol of resistance), Flag of Iran and the word "Fath".

Recipients

First recipients: 1989

The first Medals were awarded after Iran-Iraq war on September 27, 1989. the first 3 first grade medals went to:

• Hossein Fahmideh, 13-year-old volunteer soldier of Basij (KIA)
• Mohsen Rezaei, commander of Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution
• Ali Sayyad Shirazi, commander of Islamic Republic of Iran Army

Alongside them, 21 people received 2nd degree and 29 people received 3rd degree medal.

1990

On February 4, 1990, a total of 210 men received the medal. Some of the recipients in the ceremony include:

Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force

• Abbas Babaei (KIA, 2nd grade)
• Jalil Zandi (2nd grade)
• Mansour Sattari (2nd grade)
• Masoud Monfared-Niaki (KIA, 2nd grade)
• Mostafa Ardestani (KIA, 2nd grade)

Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution

• Ebrahim Hemmat (KIA, 2nd grade)
• Mehdi Bakeri (KIA, 2nd grade)
• Hossein Kharrazi (KIA, 2nd grade)
• Ali Shamkhani (2nd grade)
• Yahya Rahim Safavi (2nd grade)
• Aziz Jafari (3rd grade)
• Qasem Soleimani (3rd grade)
• Ahmad Kazemi (3rd grade)

2016

Ali Fadavi, commander of Iranian Revolutionary Guards, 1st grade

Other famous recipients

• Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1st grade)
• Hassan Rouhani (2nd grade)
• Mohammad Pakpour (1st grade)