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Biography
This article refers to the commander of Basij; for the author, see Mohammad Hejazi (author)
Mohammad Hejazi (Persian: سید محمد حجازی) (born 1956) is a military commander in Iran.
Early life and education
Hejazi was born in Isfahan in 1956. He attended the University of Tehran.
Career
Hejazi became a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in May 1979. He served as the intelligence and security advisor to the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. He is the commander of Basij, the Iranian paramilitary force that is a major branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Controversy
It is alleged that Hejazi, while serving as an advisor to Khamanei, attended the meeting in August 1993 to plan the AMIA attack along with Khamanei, Rafsanjani, then president, Ali Fallahian, then intelligence minister, and Ali Akbar Velayati, then foreign minister.