Gholam Ali Rashid

Major General Gholam Ali Rashid was a senior IRGC commander who served as commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, the highest joint operational command of Iran's armed forces. He simultaneously held the position of deputy commander-in-chief of the Iranian armed forces. A veteran of the Iran–Iraq War, Rashid participated in all major IRGC operations during that conflict. He held a master's degree in political geography from the University of Tehran and a doctorate in political geography from Tarbiat Modares University. His political activism began in 1978 against the Pahlavi regime; he was imprisoned twice by SAVAK before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Rashid was killed on 13 June 2025 in the Israeli strikes on Iran that opened the Twelve-Day War. He was succeeded briefly by Ali Shadmani.