List of Iranian commanders in the Iran–Iraq War

Leaders

• Abolhassan Banisadr
• Ruhollah Khomeini
• * Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, acted as the de facto commander-in-chief since mid-1980s and was later officially appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief on 2 June 1988
• ** Hassan Rouhani, served as deputy to second-in-command since 1988

  Military commanders

Strategic level

[Islamic [Republic of Iran Army]]

• Brig. Gen. Valiollah Fallahi
• Brig. Gen. Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad
• Col. Esmaeil Sohrabi
• Brig. Gen. Ali Shahbazi

• Brig. Gen. Qasem-Ali Zahirnejad
• Col. Ali Sayyad Shirazi
• Col. Hossein Hassani-Sadi

• Col. Javad Fakoori
• Col. Mohammad-Hossein Moinpour
• Col. Houshang Seddigh
• Col. Mansour Sattari

• Cpt. Bahram Afzali
• Cpt. Esfandiar Hosseini
• Cpt. Mohammad-Hossein Malekzadegan

  [Islamic [Revolutionary Guard Corps]]

• Morteza Rezaee
• Mohsen Rezaei

• Alireza Afshar
• Mohammad Forouzandeh

• Amir Majd
• Ahmad Salek
• Mohammad-Ali Rahmani

• Yahya Rahim Safavi
• Ali Shamkhani

• Akbar Rafan

• Hossein Alaei

  Operational level

[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps]

• Hossein Kharrazi
• Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
• Ahmad Kazemi
• Mohammad Boroujerdi
• Ebrahim Hemmat
• Qassem Soleimani
• Mehdi Bakeri
• Ahmad Motevaselian
• Mehdi Zeinoddin
• Mahmoud Kaveh
• Ali Hashemi

  Ministers

• Mostafa Chamran
• Col. Javad Fakoori
• Col. Mousa Namjoo
• Col. Mohammad Salimi
• Col. Mohammad Hossein Jalali

• Mohsen Rafighdoost