YAHYA RAHIM SAFAVI

Major General 'Yahya Rahim Safavi' (Persian: 'یحیى رحیم صفوی'; born 1952) served as the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards of Iran until September 1, 2007.

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History

11 September allegations

Asset freeze

See also

Notes and references

External links

History

Rahim Safavi was one of the leaders of the Iraq-Iran War. Furthermore, he was only 23 years old during the war. Safavi is [related to the Safavid dynasty and Sheikh Safih-oddin Ardebili] (one of the many in Iran's current power structure ,no more the leader of ''Sepah-e Pasdaran'', or commander-in chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and has been replaced by Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, former head of the Institute of Strategic Studies of AGIR (IRGC) from September 1 2007.

11 September allegations

On September 6 2006 his allegations caused a sensation, because the Iranian Supreme Commander accused the Bush Administration and the Israeli security service Mossad of ordering the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington DC. “The events of September 11 were ordered by U.S. [officials] and Mossad so that they could carry out their strategy of pre-emption and warmongering and unipolarisation in order to dominate the Middle East”, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi told military commanders on September 5 2006. His comments were reported by the state-run news agency ISNA. General Safavi said that Iran was the leading force of the "Islamic world". "The geographic heart of the Islamic world is in Mecca and Medina. But, the political heart of the Islamic world is in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the flag-bearer of the front of Islamic awakening and the fronts of the awakening of third world nations”, he said.^[1]

Asset freeze

On 2006-12-24, Rahim Safavi was listed in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1737 asking for his assets (among others') to be frozen because of alleged involvements in Iranian nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.^[2]

See also

★ Ali Movahedi-Kermani

Notes and references

1. Iran Says US and Israel Ordered 9/11 Attacks
2. Security Council imposes sanctions on Iran for failure to halt uranium enrichment, unanimously adopting Resolution 1737

External links

★ Yahya Safavi: Shahab 3 Missile with Cluster Warhead Can Destroy Aircraft Carriers. Israel within Range of our Missiles