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Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr
Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr (Persian: محمدباقر ذوالقدر) is an Iranian former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) military officer who has served as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council since March 2026. He has also served as the Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council from 2021 to 2026.
Before the 1979 Islamic revolution, Zolghard was active in carrying out attacks against the monarchy, and in 1978 he killed an American engineer and an oil company manager. He served as the commander of the IRGC Irregular Warfare Headquarters, as well as the Ramazan Headquarters, which formed the basis for the Quds Force, the IRGC’s foreign branch that conducts asymmetric warfare outside of Iran. He was later a Brigadier General in the IRGC, with whom he served from 1979 to 2010. He was the Chief of the Joint Staff of the IRGC from 1989 to 1997, and Second-in-Command of the IRGC from 1997 to 2006.
After he helped Mahmoud Ahmadinejad come to power with a "multilayered plan," from 2005 to 2007 he was Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs and Police under Ahmadinejad. From 2012 to 2021 he was the deputy for strategic, societal–security and crime prevention affairs in the judicial system of Iran. In March 2026, he was appointed Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, succeeding Ali Larijani, who was assassinated by an Israeli airstrike during the war.
He is known for his hard-line views, and said on 24 March 2026 that the IRGC should gain more control over the country. The Economist described him as an "IRGC apparatchik".
Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr was born in 1954 in Fasa, near Shiraz, Iran. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tehran, prior to Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.
Before the 1979 Islamic revolution, he was a member of the Mansourun guerrilla group, an Islamist militant organization active at the time. In 1978 he, along with Mohsen Rezaei, killed an American engineer and an oil company manager. He is reportedly one of the founders of Ansar-e Hezbollah, a conservative paramilitary organization in Iran.
During the Iran–Iraq War, he co-headed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' educational division for military training, as well as guerrilla operations. He later served as the commander of the IRGC Irregular Warfare Headquarters, as well as the Ramazan Headquarters, which formed the basis for the Quds Force, the IRGC’s foreign branch that conducts asymmetric warfare outside of Iran.
He was the Chief of the Joint Staff of the IRGC from 1989 to 1997. Zolghadr served as the deputy commander of the IRGC from 1997 to 2005. In 2007, Zolghadr was appointed the deputy chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces for Basij-related affairs.
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Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr
Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr (Persian: محمدباقر ذوالقدر) is an Iranian former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) military officer who has served as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council since March 2026. He has also served as the Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council from 2021 to 2026.
Before the 1979 Islamic revolution, Zolghard was active in carrying out attacks against the monarchy, and in 1978 he killed an American engineer and an oil company manager. He served as the commander of the IRGC Irregular Warfare Headquarters, as well as the Ramazan Headquarters, which formed the basis for the Quds Force, the IRGC’s foreign branch that conducts asymmetric warfare outside of Iran. He was later a Brigadier General in the IRGC, with whom he served from 1979 to 2010. He was the Chief of the Joint Staff of the IRGC from 1989 to 1997, and Second-in-Command of the IRGC from 1997 to 2006.
After he helped Mahmoud Ahmadinejad come to power with a "multilayered plan," from 2005 to 2007 he was Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs and Police under Ahmadinejad. From 2012 to 2021 he was the deputy for strategic, societal–security and crime prevention affairs in the judicial system of Iran. In March 2026, he was appointed Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, succeeding Ali Larijani, who was assassinated by an Israeli airstrike during the war.
He is known for his hard-line views, and said on 24 March 2026 that the IRGC should gain more control over the country. The Economist described him as an "IRGC apparatchik".
Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr was born in 1954 in Fasa, near Shiraz, Iran. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tehran, prior to Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.
Before the 1979 Islamic revolution, he was a member of the Mansourun guerrilla group, an Islamist militant organization active at the time. In 1978 he, along with Mohsen Rezaei, killed an American engineer and an oil company manager. He is reportedly one of the founders of Ansar-e Hezbollah, a conservative paramilitary organization in Iran.
During the Iran–Iraq War, he co-headed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' educational division for military training, as well as guerrilla operations. He later served as the commander of the IRGC Irregular Warfare Headquarters, as well as the Ramazan Headquarters, which formed the basis for the Quds Force, the IRGC’s foreign branch that conducts asymmetric warfare outside of Iran.
He was the Chief of the Joint Staff of the IRGC from 1989 to 1997. Zolghadr served as the deputy commander of the IRGC from 1997 to 2005. In 2007, Zolghadr was appointed the deputy chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces for Basij-related affairs.
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