Chiefs of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces

Sayyid Hassan Aghaee Firouzabadi (Persian: سیّد حسن آقایی فیروزآبادی; 3 February 1951 – 3 September 2021) was an Iranian military officer. He served as the Chief-of-Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces—the most senior military authority in Iran—from 1989 to 2016. After that, he was appointed a senior military advisor to the Supreme Leader of Iran and a member of the Expediency Discernment Council.

Major General Mohammad Bagheri (Persian: محمد باقری, 1960 – 13 June 2025; born Mohammad-Hossein Afshordi Persian: محمدحسین افشردی) was an Iranian military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who served as the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces from 2016 to 2025. He was killed along with other senior officers during a series of airstrikes launched by Israel on 13 June 2025. He was the highest ranking military officer in Iran at the time of his death.