Mousa Namjoo
Mousa Namjoo | |
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Minister of National Defence | |
In office 17 August 1981 – 29 September 1981 | |
Prime Minister | Mohammad-Javad Bahonar Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani |
Preceded by | Javad Fakoori |
Succeeded by | Mohammad Salimi |
Mousa Namjoo (Persian: سید موسی نامجو; 17 December 1938 – 29 September 1981) was an Iranian military officer who served as the minister of defence from August to September 1981.
Biography
Namjoo was born in
He worked at the National Military Academy with the rank of colonel.Iran Iraq war.[6] He also fought in the war.[7] He was appointed minister of defence and armed forces logistics to the interim government led by Prime Minister Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani on 2 September 1981.[8][9]
Death
Namjoo was killed in a plane crash together with 80 other people on 29 September 1981 near
C-130 Hercules transport plane.[10][11] Other leading military figures killed in the crash were Valiollah Fallahi, Javad Fakoori and Yousef Kolahdouz.[12][13] They were returning to Tehran from southwestern battlefront with Iraq.[14] On 1 October 1981, a funeral service was held for Namjoo and other victims at the military academy in Tehran.[10]
Mujahedeen Khalq as the perpetrator without clearly condemning the leftist group.[14]
Legacy
Namjoo's biography entitled A Man with Orange Color was published by Ezzatollah Alvandi in 2005.[15]
References
- ISBN 964-394-210-4.
- ^ شهید سرلشکر موسی نامجوی Archived 13 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine وبگاه رسمی وزارت دفاع ایران] Ministry of Defence (in Persian)
- ^ خاطراتی ازشهید سرتیپ خلبان سید موسی نامجو وبگاه رسمی مرتضی آوینی] Aviny (in Persian)
- ISBN 0-8330-0777-7.
- ^ a b "The Revolutionary Period". Country Data. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
- ^ a b "National security". Pars Times. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- ^ a b John Kiefner (1 October 1981). "4 military chiefs in Iran are killed in a plane crash". The New York Times. Beirut. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
- ^ Mir M. Hosseini. "Interim Government Formed". Fouman. Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
- ISBN 978-0815635741. Archived from the originalon 21 September 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
- ^ a b "Crash kills Iranian military leaders". Herald Journal. Beirut. AP. 1 October 1981. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
- ^ "103 Reported Killed as Iranian Army Plane Crashes; Altimeter Suspected". Los Angeles Times. Tehran. 4 November 1984. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
- ^ "Iranian military aircraft crashes". Sarasota Journal. UPI. 30 September 1981. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
- ISBN 978-0-415-61069-8.
- ^ a b "Crash kills four top Iranian officers". The Daily Egyptian. Vol. 66, no. 29. Beirut. AP. 1 October 1981. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- ^ "Biography of Martyr Namjoo". Tehran: Shahed. 16 September 2005. Retrieved 27 June 2013.[permanent dead link]
External links
- Media related to Mousa Namjoo at Wikimedia Commons