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Azizollah Zarghami
Native name
عزیزالله ضرغامی
Born1884
Tehran, Qajar Iran
Died1978 (aged 93–94)
Tehran, Pahlavi Iran
AllegianceImperial Iran
Service years1920s–1941
Chief of Staff of the Imperial Iranian ArmyMajor general
Alma materCossack training school

Azizollah Zarghami (1884–1978; Persian: عزیزالله ضرغامی) was an Iranian army officer. He served as the chief of staff of the Imperial Army in Iran in the period 1934–1941 during the rule of Reza Shah.

Biography

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Zarghami was born in Tehran in 1884.[1] His father was Hussein Pashakhan Zargham Al Saltanah, one of the leaders of the Shaqaqi tribe.[2] Zarghami trained at the Cossack school.[1] He remained with the Cossacks until he was promoted to captain.

Later, he was transferred to the Gendarmerie and held several positions there, such as the head of the gendarmerie of Qazvin, Zanjan, and Soltanabad. After the formation of the Unified Army, he was transferred there and was assigned to establish the schools of the regime with the rank of colonel. He was there for two years when he was appointed as the head of the Army's stewardship office. Then he became the commander of the Makran Brigade and attained the rank of brigadier general. In 1920 (AH or AD?), he was appointed head of the Gendarmerie of the country. He was named the chief of staff in 1934. As the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran began in 1941, Reza Shah ordered Zarghami, as Army Chief of Staff, to deploy the Central Garrison to defend the capital, but offered no instructions for the divisions under attack.[3] After Reza Shah finally ordered a cease-fire, much of the army disintegrated. When Reza Shah abdicated Zarghami lost his position.[2] Later Zarghami served as the senator and governor of East Azerbaijan.[4]

In 1961 Zarghami and three other generals were arrested as part of the anti-corruption campaign of Prime Minister Ali Amini and were released soon.[5] Zarghami died in Tehran in 1978 and was buried in the Imamzadeh Abdollah cemetery, Tehran.[1] One of his children, Ezzatollah Zarghami, was also an army officer with the rank of brigadier general.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "General Azizollah Zarghami". Institute for Iranian Contemporary Studies. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b "عزیزالله ضرغامی". Rasekhoon (in Persian). Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  3. ^ Ward 2014, pp. 167–68.
  4. ^ "موضوع: باشگاه لاینز تبریز" (in Persian). History Documents. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  5. ^ Michael J. Willcocks (2015). Agent or Client: Who Instigated the White Revolution of the Shah and the People in Iran, 1963 (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. p. 99.
  6. ^ "از ارتشبد عزت‌الله ضرغامی تا سرتیپ عزت‌الله ضرغامی!". Khabar Online (in Persian). 1 February 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  • Ward, Steven R. (2014). Immortal: a military history of Iran and its armed forces. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 9781626160323.
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