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Hossein Salami
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It is catalogued under topics including 1960 births, 2025 deaths and Assassinated Iranian military personnel.
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Key facts
- President
- Hassan Rouhani , Ebrahim Raisi , Mohammad Mokhber (acting), Masoud Pezeshkian
- Supreme leader
- Ali Khamenei
- Preceded by
- Mohammad Ali Jafari
- Succeeded by
- Ahmad Vahidi (acting), Mohammad Pakpour
- Born
- 1960 ( 1960 ) , Golpayegan , Pahlavi Iran
- Died
- 13 June 2025 (2025-06-13) (aged 64–65), Tehran , Iran
- Cause of death
- Airstrike
- Awards
- Order of Fath ( 1st class )
- Allegiance
- Iran
- Branch service
- IRGC
- Years of service
- 1980–2025
- Rank
- Major General Lieutenant General (posthumously)
- Battles wars
- Iran–Iraq War Syrian civil war Iranian intervention in the Syria War in Iraq (2013–2017) Iranian intervention in Iraq Twelve-Day War †
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Hussein
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Iran
- Place of birth
- Golpayegan
- Place of death
- Tehran
- Occupation
- politician
- Educated at
- Supreme National Defense University
- Languages spoken
- Persian
- Native language
- Persian
- Religion
- Shia Islam
- Conflict
- War against the Islamic State
- Military branch
- Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
- Military rank
- lieutenant general
- Image
- Hossein Salami portrait (cropped).jpg
Show 12 more facts
- date of birth
- 1960-08-01
- name in native language
- حسین سلامی
- Commons category
- Hossein Salami
- allegiance
- Iran
- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- P10632
- Hossein Salami
- date of death
- 2025-06-13
- end of work period
- 2025-00-00
- cause of death
- airstrike
- manner of death
- homicide
- honorific prefix
- Sardar
- killed by
- Israeli Air Force
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Encyclopedic overview
Hossein Salami (Persian: حسین سلامی; 1960 – 13 June 2025) was an Iranian military officer who served as the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from 2019 until 2025, when he was killed by an Israeli airstrike during the Twelve-Day War in June.
Salami joined the IRGC during the Iran–Iraq War in 1980, when he was a college student. He rose through the ranks, becoming deputy commander. On 21 April 2019, the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, appointed him as the new Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC, replacing Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari. Salami stood out among the commanders of the IRGC for his fiery and aggressive speeches targeting the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.
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