Javad Fakoori

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Javad Fakoori
جواد فکوری
Fakoori c. 1981
Minister of National Defense
In office
10 September 1980 – 17 August 1981
PresidentAbolhassan Banisadr
Temporary Presidential Council
Mohammad-Ali Rajai
Prime MinisterMohammad-Ali Rajai
Mohammad Javad Bahonar
Ruhollah Khomeini
Preceded byMostafa Chamran
Succeeded byMousa Namjoo
Commander of the Iranian Air Force
In office
July 1980 – 29 September 1981
PresidentAbolhassan Banisadr
Temporary Presidential Council
Mohammad-Ali Rajai
Temporary Presidential Council
Prime MinisterInterim Government of Iran (1979–80)
Mohammad-Ali Rajai
Mohammad-Javad Bahonar
Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
Ruhollah Khomeini
Preceded byAmir-Bahman Bagheri
Succeeded byMohammad-Hossein Moeinpour
Deputy Commander of Operations of the Iranian Air Force
In office
June 1980 – July 1980
PresidentAbolhassan Banisadr
Prime MinisterInterim Government of Iran (1979–80)
Ruhollah Khomeini
Preceded by?
Succeeded byMahmoud Gheydayan
Personal details
Born(1938-02-05)5 February 1938
Tabriz, Imperial State of Iran
Died29 September 1981(1981-09-29) (aged 43)
Kahrizak, Islamic Republic of Iran
SpouseZhila Zarrekhak
Children3
Awards
 Order of Nasr
Military service
AllegiancePahlavi Iran Pahlavi Iran (1958–1979)
Iran Iran (1979–1981)
Branch/serviceAir Force
Years of service
1958–1981
Rank
Commands2nd Tactical Air Base (1979–1980)
1st Tactical Air Base (1980)
Battles/wars

Javad Fakoori (Persian: جواد فکوری; 5 February 1938[2] – 29 September 1981) was an Iranian military colonel who served as defense minister of Iran from September 1980 to August 1981.

Career

Fakoori joined the Imperial Iranian Air Force in 1958 as a F-100 fighter pilot. He later led a squadron of F-4 aircraft. By 1978, he was promoted to colonel and stationed in Tehran as a staff officer.

After the Iranian Revolution, it was found out that one of Fakoori's cousins was a prominent member of the outlawed People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, and had sought asylum in Sweden. Regardless, then-president Abolhassan Banisadr appointed Fakoori as the minister of national defense in 1980, with the reported consent of Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini.[3][4][5] He commanded the newly-formed Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force during the Iran–Iraq War.[6]

Death

Fakoori, alongside senior military officials Valiollah Fallahi and Mousa Namjoo, was killed in an aviation crash near Tehran on 29 September 1981.[6] Khomeini made a speech following the incident, in which he implied the People's Mojahedin Organization to be the perpetrators.[7]

Fakoori was posthumously promoted to the rank of major general.

References

  1. Nikola B. Schahgaldian, Gina Barkhordarian (March 1987), The Iranian Military Under the Islamic Republic (PDF), RAND, ISBN 0-8330-0777-7, retrieved 15 January 2017
  2. "JAVAD FAKOURI". United States Department of Defense. 8 May 1962.
  3. Ehteshami Anous (1995). After Khomeini: The Iranian Second Republic. Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-415-10879-9. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  4. Dilip Hiro (1987). Iran Under the Ayatollahs. Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 156. ISBN 978-0-7102-1123-1. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  5. "Iranian military chiefs reshuffled". Spokane Daily Chronicle. Associated Press. 19 June 1980. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  6. Sepehr Zabir (23 April 2012). The Iranian Military in Revolution and War (RLE Iran D). CRC Press. p. 277. ISBN 978-1-136-81270-5. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  7. "Crash kills four top Iranian officers". The Daily Egyptian. Vol. 66, no. 29. Beirut. Associated Press. 1 October 1981. Retrieved 7 August 2021.