Shaheed Mostafa Chamran

Mostafa Chamran was born in 1932 in Tehran. He did his Ph.D. in electronics and plasma physics with excellent grades and had a good research on satellites and powerful radars. He had complete mastery over English and Arabic and also knew French and German.

His most important political activities abroad were organizing and training guerrilla and revolutionary forces in Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria. Chamran participated in guerrilla activities in liberation wars against Israel and the Phalanges.

He was deputy prime minister for revolutionary affairs and was later appointed minister of defense of Islamic Republic of Iran. Chamran also wrote many articles on political, tactical and ideological topics.

Dr. Mostafa Chamran , the researcher, scientist, crusader and challenging guerrilla achieved martyrdom during the Iraqi-imposed war on Sunday, June 21, 1981 by a bomb splinter in the village of Dehlaviyeh.

The martyrdom of Chamran is indeed an answer to all their doubts, as the late Imam Khomeini once said in tribute of the martyr, "Be like Chamran."