Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar

Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar
Minister of Interior
Incumbent
Assumed office August 9, 2009
President	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Deputy	Ali Javadi
Preceded by	Sadegh Mahsouli
Minister of Defense
In office August 9, 2005 – August 9, 2009
President	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Deputy	Ahmad Vahidi
Preceded by	Ali Shamkhani
Succeeded by	Ahmad Vahidi
Personal details
Born	2 December 1956 (1956-12-02) (age 54) Tehran, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Military service
Service/branch	Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution
Years of service	1981-2009
Rank	Brigadier General

Mostafa Mohammad Najjar (Persian: مصطفى محمد نجّار, born 2 December 1952) is the current Interior minister of Iran^[1] since August 9, 2009. He was Minister of Defense^[2] in the first cabinet of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 2005 to 2009. He is a veteran of the Revolutionary Guards .

Early life

He was born on 2 December 1952 in capital city of Tehran. He is gratunated from K. N. Toosi University of Technology in 1977. He joint to the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution since the establishment of the body in 1980, where he was in charge of the Middle East Department, with Israel, Lebanon and the Persian Gulf as places of particular attention. He was active for Military service in Kurdistan from 1980 to 1985 in the Iran-Iraq War. He became Head of Saad by Yahya Rahim Safavi in 1995.

Political career

He was designed by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Parliament for Ministry of Defense in August 2005 and received 191 to 62 of votes and became Minister in August 9, 2005. He was minister until August 2009, when Ahmadinejad was reelected and designed Mohammad-Najjar as Minister of Interior. He received 178 to 72 of votes and became Minister of Interior to succeed Sadegh Mahsouli. In his ministry, Abdolmalek Rigi the Head of Terrorist group of Jundullah was arrested.

See also

• Cabinet of Iran
• Government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

References

1. ^ "Iran urges Pakistan to hand over rebel group leader". Reuters. 23 October 2009. http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/10/23/us-iran-pakistan-attack-idUSTRE59M1YA20091023. Retrieved 16 March 2011. 
2. ^ "Iran unveils long-range missile". The Guardian. 27 November 2007. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/nov/27/iran.marktran. Retrieved 16 March 2011. 

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Political offices
Preceded by Sadegh Mahsouli	Minister of Interior 2009-present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by Ali Shamkhani	Minister of Defense 2005-2009	Succeeded by Ahmad Vahidi

Persondata
Name	Mohammad-Najjar, Mostafa
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1956
Place of birth	Tehran, Iran
Date of death
Place of death