Commander of the Iranian Navy

The Commander of the Iranian Navy (Persian: فرمانده نیروی دریایی ارتش‎) is the highest-ranking position of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy, and has operational control and is responsible for overall operations of the navy. The current Commander Hossein Khanzadi.

Commander of the Iranian Navy Persian: فرمانده نیروی دریایی ارتش‎
Incumbent Commodore Hossein Khanzadi since November 2017
Islamic Republic of Iran Navy
Nominator	Commander-in-Chief of the Army
Appointer	Supreme Leader of Iran
Formation	1931 (1931)
First holder	Gholamali Bayandor

List of officeholders

Imperial State of Iran (1925–1979)

No.	Portrait	Commander	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Ref
1		Shahbazi, AliRear admiral Gholamali Bayandor (1898–1941)	1931	25 August 1941 †	9–10 years	–
2		Zelli, AbdollahAdmiral Abdollah Zelli	1947	1952	10–11 years	[1]
3		Bayandor, GholamRear admiral Gholam-Hossein Bayandor	1952	1954	1–2 years	[1]
4		Shahandeh, HabibollahRear admiral Habibollah Shahandeh	1954	1960	5–6 years	[1]
5		Rasaei, FarajollahAdmiral Farajollah Rasaei	1960	July 1972	11–12 years	[1]
6		Ataie, AbbasRear admiral Abbas Ramzi Ataie	1972	1976	3–4 years	[1]
7		Rasaei, FarajollahVice admiral Kamal Habibollahi (1930–2016)	7 January 1976	11 February 1979	3 years	[1]

Islamic Republic of Iran (1979–present)

No.	Portrait	Commander	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Ref
–		AfsaripourCaptain Afsaripour Acting	1979	1979	0 years	[1][2]
1		Madani, AhmadCommodore Ahmad Madani (1929–2006)	1979	1979	0 years	[1]
2		Madani, AhmadCommodore Mahmoud Alavi	November 1979	26 February 1980	0 years	[1]
–		Tabatabaei, ACommodore A. Tabatabaei Acting	February 1980	May 1980	0 years	[1][2]
3		Afzali, BahramCaptain Bahram Afzali (1937–1984)	May 1980	24 April 1983	2 years	[1][3]
4		Hosseini, EsfandiarCaptain Esfandiar Hosseini (1937–1984)	30 April 1983	25 June 1985	2 years	[1][4]
5		Malekzadegan, MohammadCommodore Mohammad-Hossein Malekzadegan (born 1944)	27 June 1985	30 October 1989	4 years	[1][4]
6		Shamkhani, AliCommodore Ali Shamkhani (born 1955)	30 October 1989	27 August 1997	7 years	[1][5]
7		Mohtaj, AbbasCommodore Abbas Mohtaj	27 August 1997	25 October 2005	8 years	[1]
8		Kouchaki, SajjadCommodore Sajjad Kouchaki (born 1955)	25 October 2005	2007	1–2 years	[1]
9		Sayyari, HabibollahCommodore Habibollah Sayyari (born 1955)	29 August 2007	November 2017	10 years	[1]
10		Sayyari, HabibollahCommodore Hossein Khanzadi (born 1967)	November 2017	Incumbent	2 years	[6]

References

1. "فرماندهان ارتش ایران از 1300 شمسی تا کنون". parsine.com (in Persian). 31 January 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
2. Schahgaldian & Barkhordarian 1987, p. 113.
3. Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. p. 63. ISBN 9780815654322.
4. Schahgaldian & Barkhordarian 1987, p. 114.
5. Zeb, Rizwan (12 February 2003). "The emerging Indo-Iranian strategic alliance and Pakistan". CACI Analyst. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
6. "Leader makes new appointments in Iran's Army", Mehr News Agency, 5 November 2017, 4135697, retrieved 5 November 2017

• Schahgaldian, Nikola B.; Barkhordarian, Gina (March 1987). The Iranian Military Under the Islamic Republic (PDF). RAND. ISBN 0-8330-0777-7. Retrieved 15 January 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)