Mostafa Chamran Save'ei, was an Iranian physicist, politician, commander and guerrilla who served as the first defense minister of post-revolutionary Iran and as member of parliament, as well as the commander of paramilitary volunteers in which armed conflict between Iran and Iraq lasting from 22 September 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran, to August 1988?
Mostafa Chamran Mostafa Chamran Save'ei (Persian: مصطفی چمران ساوه‌ای‎ ‎ ) (8 March 1932 – 20 June 1981, Tehran, Iran) was an Iranian physicist, politician, commander and guerrilla who served as the first defense minister of post-revolutionary Iran and as member of parliament, as well as the commander of paramilitary volunteers in Iran–Iraq War, known as "Irregular Warfare Headquarters". He was killed during the Iran–Iraq War. In Iran, he is known as a martyr and a symbol of an ideological and revolutionary Muslim who left academic careers and prestigious positions as a scientist and professor in the US, University of California, Berkeley and migrated in order to help the Islamic movements in Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt as a chief revolutionary guerilla, as well as in the Islamic revolution of Iran. He helped to found the Amal Movement in southern Lebanon.
Ahmad Keshvari Ahmad Keshvari (Persian: احمد کشوری‎ ‎ ; July 1953 – 7 December 1980) was a AH-1J SeaCobra pilot in the Army Aviation ("Havanirooz") of Iran. He had a role in the early months of the Iran-Iraq War to stop Iraqi tanks from further advancing into the western Iranian territories.