Military Career
Dr. Seyed Yahya (Rahim) Safavi was one of the leaders of the Iraq-Iran War and played a key role in the 2001 uprising in Herat in November 2001. He was replaced as commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) by Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, former director of the Strategic Studies Center of AGIR on September 1, 2007. Radio Farda, a radio news service run by Iranian exiles, reported that Safavi is thought to have become too openly sympathetic to the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad administration, when Iranian military officers are obliged to shun politics. According to Radio Free Europe, Radio Farda "quoted observers saying that Yahya-Safavi's almost partisan positions had caused unease or even rifts in the IRGC ranks, and the appointment is meant to resolve that."
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