Mousa Namjoo

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Mousa Namjoo
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Born17 December 1938
Bandar-e Anzali, Iran
Died29 September 1981(1981-09-29) (aged 42)
Kahrizak, Iran
AllegianceIran
Service/branchGround Force
Years of service1958–1981
RankColonel[1]
Battles/warsIran–Iraq War
AwardsOrder of Nasr Ribbon.svg Order of Nasr
Alma materOfficers' School
Minister of National Defense
In office
17 August 1981 – 29 September 1981
Prime MinisterMohammad-Javad Bahonar
Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
Preceded byJavad Fakoori
Succeeded byMohammad Salimi

Mousa Namjoo (Persian: سیدموسی نامجو, 17 December 1938 – 29 September 1981) was an Iranian military who served as the minister of defence and armed forces logistics in August to September 1981.

Biography[]

Namjoo was born in Bandar-e Anzali on 17 December 1938.[2] He graduated from Imam Ali Military University.[3] He was married and had three children.[4]

He worked at the National Military Academy with the rank of colonel.[5][6] He was instrumental in developing a cooperation between the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and army before and during the Iran Iraq war.[6] He also fought in the war.[7] He was appointed minister of defence and armed forces logistics to the interim government led by Prime Minister Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani on 2 September 1981.[8][9]

Death[]

Main article: 1981 Iranian Air Force C-130 crash

Namjoo was killed in a plane crash together with 80 other people on 29 September 1981 near Tehran.[5][7] The aircraft was a US-made C-130 Hercules transport plane.[10][11] Other leading military figures killed in the crash were Valiollah Fallahi, Javad Fakoori and Yousef Kolahdouz.[12][13] They were returning to Tehran from southwestern battlefront with Iraq.[14] On 1 October 1981, a funeral service was held for Namjoo and other victims at the military academy in Tehran.[10]

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini made a speech following the incident indicating the Mujahedeen Khalq as the perpetrator without clearly condemning the leftist group.[14]

Legacy[]

A book, entitled A Man with Orange Color, was published by Ezzatollah Alvandi in 2005 which is Namjoo's biography.[15]

References[]

  1. ^ Nikola B. Schahgaldian; Gina Barkhordarian (March 1987). The Iranian Military Under the Islamic Republic (PDF). RAND. ISBN 0-8330-0777-7.
  2. ^ Ezzatolah Alvandi (2005). مردی به رنگ پرتقال (شهید سید موسی نامجو) (in Persian). Tehran: Shahed. ISBN 964-394-210-4.
  3. ^ شهید سرلشکر موسی نامجوی وب‌گاه رسمی وزارت دفاع ایران] Ministry of Defence
  4. ^ خاطراتی ازشهید سرتیپ خلبان سید موسی نامجو وب‌گاه رسمی مرتضی آوینی] Aviny
  5. ^ a b "The Revolutionary Period". Country Data. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  6. ^ a b "National security". Pars Times. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
  7. ^ a b John Kiefner (1 October 1981). "4 military chiefs in Iran are killed in a plane crash". The New York Times. Beirut. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  8. ^ Mir M. Hosseini. "Interim Government Formed". Fouman. Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  9. ^ Mehrzad Boroujerdi; Kourosh Rahimkhani (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran. A Political Handbook. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0815635741.
  10. ^ a b "Crash kills Iranian military leaders". Herald Journal. Beirut. AP. 1 October 1981. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  11. ^ "103 Reported Killed as Iranian Army Plane Crashes; Altimeter Suspected". Los Angeles Times. Tehran. 4 November 1984. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  12. ^ "Iranian military aircraft crashes". Sarasota Journal. UPI. 30 September 1981. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  13. ^ Sepehr Zabir (25 February 2011). Iran Since the Revolution (RLE Iran A). Routledge. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-415-61069-8.
  14. ^ a b "Crash kills four top Iranian officers". The Daily Egyptian. Vol. 66, no. 29. Beirut. AP. 1 October 1981. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  15. ^ "Biography of Martyr Namjoo". Tehran: Shahed. 16 September 2005. Retrieved 27 June 2013.

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