Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam (29 October 1959-12 November 2011) was an Iranian IRGC Brigadier-General who was assassinated by Israel during the Iran-Israel Cold War.
Biography[]
Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam was born in Tehran, Iran in 1959, and he took part in the 1979 Iranian Revolution before serving in the IRGC artillery during the Iran-Iraq War. In August 1988, he commanded the IRGC against the Iraqi Army and the MEK in Operation Mersad. After the war, he set up a long-range missile program which could hugely threaten Israel, and he became the chief designer of the Shahab, Ghadr, and Sejjil missiles. On 12 November 2011, he died in the Bid Kaneh arsenal explosion, and Israel was accused of being behind his assassination.