Mousa Namjoo (, 17 December 1938 – 29 September 1981) was an Iranian military who served as the minister of defence and armed forces logistics in August to September 1981.

Biography

Namjoo was born in

Bandar-e Anzali Bandar-e Anzali ( fa, بندرانزلی, also Romanized as Bandar-e Anzalī; renamed as Bandar-e Pahlavi during the Pahlavi dynasty) is a city of Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 144,664. Anzali is one of the mos ...

on 17 December 1938. He graduated from

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(now Imam Ali Military University). He was married and had three children. He worked at the National Military Academy with the rank of colonel. He was instrumental in developing a cooperation between the

Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC; fa, سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی, Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enghelāb-e Eslāmi, lit=Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution also Sepāh or Pasdaran for short) is a branch o ...

and army before and during the Iran Iraq war. He also fought in the war. He was appointed minister of defence and armed forces logistics to the interim government led by

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Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani ( fa, محمدرضا مهدوی کنی, 6 August 1931 – 21 October 2014) was an Iranian Shia cleric, writer and conservative and principlist politician who was Acting Prime Minister of Iran from 2 Septembe ...

on 2 September 1981.

Death

Namjoo was killed in a plane crash together with 80 other people on 29 September 1981 near

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the Capital city, capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is th ...

. The aircraft was a US-made

C-130 Hercules The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin). Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings, the C-130 was originally des ...

transport plane. Other leading military figures killed in the crash were

Valiollah Fallahi , birth_date=1931 , death_date= , birth_place= Kulej, Taleghan County, Iran , death_place= Kahrizak District, Iran , image=Chief of Staff General Valiollah Fallahi.JPG , caption= Brigadier General Valiollah Fallahi , nickname= , allegiance= Iran ...

Javad Fakoori Javad Fakoori ( fa, جواد فکوری, 3 January 1936 – 29 September 1981) was a prominent military figure who served as the 4th defence minister of Iran in September 1980 to August 1981. Career Fakoori was a commander of the Islamic Republi ...

and

Yousef Kolahdouz Yousef Kolahdouz (December 22, 1946 – September 30, 1981; fa, یوسف کلاهدوز) was an Iranian general during the Iran-Iraq War. He is also counted as one of the founders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He became deputy comma ...

. They were returning to Tehran from southwestern battlefront with Iraq. On 1 October 1981, a funeral service was held for Namjoo and other victims at the military academy in Tehran. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini made a speech following the incident indicating the

Mujahedeen Khalq The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) or Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) ( fa, سازمان مجاهدين خلق ايران, sâzmân-e mojâhedīn-e khalq-e īrân), is an Iranian pol ...

as the perpetrator without clearly condemning the leftist group.

Legacy

Namjoo's biography entitled ''A Man with Orange Color'' was published by Ezzatollah Alvandi in 2005.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Namjoo, Mousa 20th-century Iranian politicians 1938 births 1981 deaths Defence ministers of Iran Islamic Republic of Iran Army colonels Islamic Republic of Iran Army personnel of the Iran–Iraq War People from Bandar-e Anzali Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Iran