Ali Hashemi (commander)
Ali Hashemi | |
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| Native name | علی هاشمی |
| Nickname(s) | "General of Hoor" |
| Born | 31 December 1961 Hasir-Abad District, Ahvaz, Imperial State of Iran |
| Died | 25 June 1988 (aged 26) Majnoon Island, Ba'athist Iraq |
| Buried | Ahvaz, Iran |
| Allegiance | Iran |
| Service | Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps |
| Years of service | 1980–1988 |
| Rank | Brigadier general |
| Commands | 37th Noor Brigade Nosrat Headquarters, 6th Imam Sadeq Corps |
| Battles / wars | |
Ali Hashemi (Persian/Arabic: علی هاشمی), commonly known as General of Marshes or Shahid Ali Hashemi,[1][2] was an Iranian military commander in the IRGC and a prominent military figure during the Iran–Iraq War. He was born in 1961 in Ahwaz.[3][4][5] During the war, he managed several brigades, divisions, Basij paramilitaries and IRGC units in Khuzestan and Lorestan and likewise was appointed as the commander of "Nosrat secret headquarters" in 1983 by Mohsen Rezaee.[6] in 1987, Hashemi was appointed as the commander of the 6th Imam Sadiq Corps.
A part of Hashemi's testament is as follows:
O' the martyr-productive nation of Iran, we went; but we put its duty on each one of you; you always keep our blood alive till Islam be alive. And you, the Iranian prolific youth of Hezbollah, although I swiftly went towards the believed at a young age ...[7]
Hashemi who was well known as "Sardar-e-Hoor" (General of the Marshes),[8][9] was eventually killed in 1988 along with a group of Iranian soldiers among Mehdi Narimi in Majnoon Island, and his body came back to Iran after 22 years.[10][11] Hashemi was an Iranian Arab and got married in 1984 and had a son and daughter[12][13]
See also
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[edit]- ^ Shahid Ali Hashemi tasnimnews.com Retrieved 29 Nov 2018
- ^ Sardar-e-Hoor / Shahid Ali Hashemi navideshahed.com Retrieved 1 Dec 2018
- ^ Biography of Ali Hashemi hawzah.net Retrieved 1 Dec 2018
- ^ Anniversary of the martyrdom of major-general Ali Hashemi isna.ir Retrieved 28 Nov 2018
- ^ The biography of Shahid Ali Hashemi in Majnoon-Hoor tasnimnews.com Retrieved 1 Dec 2018
- ^ Who was the guard of the major general (Shahid) Ali Hashemii? tasnimnews.com Retrieved 1 Dec 2018
- ^ Shahid Ali Hashemi iribnews.ir Retrieved 29 Nov 2018
- ^ Sardar-Hoor ettelaat.com Retrieved 1 Dec 2018
- ^ Sardar Hoor iribnews.ir Retrieved 29
- ^ "Yousef of Hoor" from the narration of his brother shooshan.ir Retrieved 1 Dec 2018
- ^ Khuzestan Arabs during the war tasnimnews.com Retrieved 28 Nov 2018
- ^ The Arab brave Khuzestani young, Sardar Ali Hashemi iribnews.ir Retrieved 1 Dec 2018
- ^ Ali Hashemi tebyan.net Retrieved 1 Dec 2018
