Ali Shamkhani is an Iranian rear admiral upper half. He served as the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran from 2013 to 2023. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council and political advisor of Supreme Leader of Iran since May 2023.
Evin Prison is a prison located in the Evin neighborhood of Tehran,Iran. The prison has been the primary site for the housing of Iran's political prisoners since 1972,before and after the Islamic Revolution,in a purpose-built wing nicknamed "Evin University" due to the number of students and intellectuals housed there. Evin Prison has been accused of committing "serious human rights abuses" against its political dissidents and critics of the government.
Ali Hosseini Khamenei is a Twelver Shia marja' and the second and current supreme leader of Iran,in office since 1989. Previously,he served as the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. Khamenei is the longest serving head of state in the Middle East,as well as the second-longest serving Iranian leader of the last century,after Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Ali Ardeshir Larijani is an Iranian conservative politician,philosopher and former military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,who served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Iran from 2008 to 2020. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,also called Sepah or Pasdaran,is a multi-service primary branch of the Iranian Armed Forces. It was officially established by Ruhollah Khomeini as a military branch in May 1979,in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution. Whereas the Iranian Army protects the country's sovereignty in a traditional capacity,the IRGC's constitutional mandate is to ensure the integrity of the Islamic Republic. Most interpretations of this mandate assert that it entrusts the IRGC with preventing foreign interference in Iran,thwarting coups by the traditional military,and crushing "deviant movements" that harm the ideological legacy of the Islamic Revolution. Currently,the IRGC is designated as a terrorist organization by Bahrain,Saudi Arabia,Sweden and the United States.
Mohammad Reyshahri,also known as Mohammad Mohammadi-Nik,was an Iranian politician and cleric who was the first Minister of Intelligence,serving from 1984 to 1989 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
Mohsen Rezaee is an Iranian conservative politician affiliated with the Resistance Front of Islamic Iran and senior military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,who is currently a member of the Expediency Discernment Council,secretary of the Supreme Council for Economic Coordination,as well as the secretary of the Iranian government's Economic Committee. He was secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council from 1997 to 2021 and Vice President of Iran for Economic Affairs between 2021 and 2023.
The Basij,Niru-ye Moghāvemat-e Basij,full name Sâzmân-e Basij-e Mostaz'afin,is one of the five forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The force is named Basij;an individual member is called basiji in the Persian language. As of July 2019,Gholamreza Soleimani is the commander of the Basij.
Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i is an Iranian conservative politician,Islamic jurist and prosecutor who currently serves as Chief Justice of Iran.
Mohammad Hossein-Zadeh Hejazi was a military commander in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Hassan Abbasi is an Iranian conspiracy theorist and an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officer who heads its think-tank 'Center for Borderless Security Doctrinal Analysis'. Abbasi is primarily known for his conspiracy theories,and for delivering controversial speeches on issues including economics,history,politics and cinema.
Ali Fallahian is an Iranian politician and cleric. He served as intelligence minister from 1989 to 1997 under the presidency of Ali Akbar Rafsanjani.
Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi is an Iranian politician and prosecutor,who has served at different positions and cabinet posts. He was minister of interior from 2005 to 2008 and minister of justice from 2013 until 2017. Pourmohammadi is reportedly implicated in the 1988 Massacre of Iranian Prisoners.
Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei is an Iranian conservative politician and former intelligence officer. As a senior Cabinet member in the administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,he served as Chief of Staff from 2009 to 2013,and served as the fourth first vice president of Iran for one week in 2009 until his resignation was ordered by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Ali Jannati is an Iranian politician and former diplomat who served as counselor to the head of Iranian presidential administration,in the second cabinet of Hassan Rouhani. He was minister of culture from 15 August 2013 until his resignation on 19 October 2016.
Ali Hammoud is a former Syrian intelligence officer and general who served as minister of interior from 2001 to 2004.
Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian Islamist politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. He is also a sharia lawyer ("Wakil"),academic,former diplomat and Islamic cleric. He has been a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts since 1999. He was a member of the Expediency Council from 1991 to 2021,and also was a member of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2021. Rouhani was deputy speaker of the fourth and fifth terms of the Parliament of Iran (Majlis) and Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2005. In the latter capacity,he was the country's top negotiator with the EU three,UK,France,and Germany,on nuclear technology in Iran,and has also served as a Shia mujtahid,and economic trade negotiator.
Hossein Dehghani Poudeh,commonly known as Hossein Dehghan,is a former IRGC air force officer with the rank of brigadier general and the former minister of defense of Iran. He was designated for the position by President Hassan Rouhani on 4 August 2013 and confirmed by the parliament on 15 August. He left the office on 20 August 2017.
Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr is an Iranian retired military commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who currently serves as the Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council. Also he is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council.
On 22 September 2018,a military parade was attacked by armed gunmen in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz. The shooters killed 25 people,including soldiers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and civilian bystanders. It was the deadliest terrorist attack in Iran since the Chabahar suicide bombing in December 2010.
