Commanders of The Imperial Guard
The last Commander of the Imperial Guard, General Ali Neshat was executed as were a number of other officers and guardsmen. The former included several former Guard Commanders, such as General Abdul Ali Badrehi (1965-1978), who had risen to be Commander of Ground Forces. General Gholam Ali Oveisi, (Imperial Guard Commander 1960-1965), subsequently became Chief of the Army Staff before being made Military Governor of Tehran in 1978. He was appointed Minister of Labor and Social Affairs from 1978-1979 and was assassinated in 1984 in Paris. One of the original commanders, General Jafar Shafaghat, during the last months prior to the fall of the Monarchy in 1979 was appointed by the Shah as the Minister of Defense (the literal translation of this post from Persian is Minister of War) under Shapour Bakhtiar Cabinet until the fall of the regime.
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Famous quotes containing the words imperial and/or guard:
“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.
“One should never intend to do harm to others, but should always guard against the harm others might do to him.”
—Chinese proverb.