Mohammad Hejazi



Mohammad Hossein-Zadeh Hejazi is a military commander in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Early life and education

Hejazi was born in Isfahan in 1956. He attended the University of Tehran.

Career

Hejazi became a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in May 1979. He served as the intelligence and security advisor to the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. He is a former commander of Basij, the auxiliary Iranian paramilitary branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Since January 20, 2020, he is the Deputy Commander of the Quds Force, by decree of the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.

Allegations

It is alleged by the American Jewish Committee that Hejazi, while serving as an advisor to Khamanei, attended a meeting in August 1993 to plan the AMIA bombing in Argentina along with Khamanei, Rafsanjani, then president, Ali Fallahian, then intelligence minister, and Ali Akbar Velayati, then foreign minister.
The subject was the deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in 2008 and the commander of Terhan's Tharallah military base whose units were central to the government efforts to combat the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests.
On August 29 2019, the Israeli military launched a Twitter campaign claiming to 'expose' Hejazi, along with IRGC colonel Majid Nuab and brigadier general Ali Asrar Nuruzi, and his role in a "secret project with Hezbollah to manufacture precision guided missiles to attack Israel", and saying that it was "not so secret anymore". This "exposing" of Hejazi was ridiculed as both Iran and Hezbollah have publicly stated that Iran has supplied precision guided missiles to Hezbollah, with Hezbollah's Secretary-General
Hassan Nasrallah directly priding over the fact in a televised address to Benjamin Netanyahu for over a year.