Mohammad Bagheri
- Birth Date:
- 00.00.1960
- Death date:
- 13.06.2025
- Length of life:
- 65
- Days since birth:
- 23937
- Years since birth:
- 65
- Days since death:
- 32
- Years since death:
- 0
- Person's maiden name:
- Mohammad-Hossein Afshordi (Persian: محمدحسین افشردی)
- Categories:
- General, Military person, victim
- Nationality:
- iranian
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Major General Mohammad Bagheri (Persian: محمد باقری, 1960 or 1961 – 13 June 2025), born Mohammad-Hossein Afshordi (Persian: محمدحسین افشردی) was an Iranian military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who served as the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Career
Bagheri, a military intelligence expert with experience dating back to the Iran–Iraq War, held a Ph.D. in political geography and reportedly taught at Iran's Supreme National Defense University. In 1980, he joined the IRGC.
Mohammad Bagheri was a member of a group identified by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) as the IRGC Command Network, which includes other commanders such as Mohammad Ali Jafari, Ali Fadavi, and Gholam Ali Rashid. According to AEI's Critical Threats Project, the group "dominates the upper echelons of Iran's military and controls planning, operations, intelligence, covert and irregular warfare operations, and internal security." He was promoted from his previous position as deputy chief of staff for intelligence and operations in the General Staff on June 28, 2016, replacing Hassan Firouzabadi.
In October 2017, he visited Iranian troops in Aleppo province in northern Syria.
In February 2022, according to Reuters, Bagheri announced that Iran will continue advancing its ballistic missile programme, both "in terms of quantity and quality".
On 21 October 2022, a White House press release stated that Iranian troops were in Crimea assisting Russia in launching drone attacks. Bagheri was the commander overseeing the Iranian army branches supplying Russia with drones.
On 3 December 2023, Bagheri suggested during meetings in Baghdad that Iran might directly intervene in the escalating tensions with the United States, in support of efforts to expel American forces from the region.
On 17 April 2025, Bagheri held talks in Tehran with Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Defense, Khalid bin Salman Al Saud, in the highest profile talks between the two countries in decades.
Personal life
His elder brother, Hassan Bagheri, was a commander in the Iran–Iraq War.
Sanctions
On April 8, 2019, the United States designated Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a foreign terrorist organization. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel immediately thanked President Donald Trump on Twitter. Mohammad Bagheri said, "We consider the U.S. troops in West Asia to be terrorists and if they do a damn thing, we will confront them vigorously."
He was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.
In September 2022, following harsh suppression of protesters during the Mahsa Amini protests, Mohammad Bagheri was sanctioned by the United States and Canada.
Death
Iranian state television reported that Bagheri was killed in the June 2025 Israeli strikes on Iran.
Source: wikipedia.org