Mohammad Jamali-Paqaleh

Iranian military officer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroIranian military officer
PlacesIran
wasMilitary leader Officer Military officer
Work fieldMilitary
Gender
Male
Birth1963, Kerman, Central District, Kerman Province, Iran
Death2013Damascus, Damascus Governorate, Syria (aged 50 years)
The details

Biography

Brigadier general Mohammad Jamali-Paqaleh (Persian: محمد جمالی پاقلعه‎) (1963–2013) was an Iranian commander in the Revolutionary Guards who died in Syrian Civil War.

Biography

Jamali-Paqaleh was born in 1963 in Paqaleh in Shahr-e Babak County, Kerman Province. When he was two years old, his father died. He completed primary school in the village and then migrated to Rafsanjan to continue his education.

Iran–Iraq War

Jamali-Paqaleh was a veteran of the Iran–Iraq War and was a member of the Sarallah division, the same division outfitted that had trained by General Qassem Soleimani. He had participated in several operations such as Operation Tariq al-Qods, Fath ol-Mobin, Beit ol-Moqaddas, Ramadan, Dawn 8, and Karbala-5,4,1.

Syrian Civil War

The Iranian news outlet Mehr News Agency reported that Jamali voluntary went to Syria to protect the Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque and another holy shrine against Assad-opposing forces in the Syrian Civil War.

Jamali-Paqaleh was reported to have been killed by Syrian rebels either in the final days of October or early November 2013. He was buried on 5 November in Kerman with full military honors.

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