Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters

Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters (Persian: قرارگاه مرکزی خاتم‌ الانبیا (ص)) is the unified combatant command headquarters of the Iranian Armed Forces, under direct command of the General Staff. It is tasked with planning and coordinating joint military operations within the Iranian forces.

In 2016, the KCHQ was separated from the General Staff as a standing independent command responsible for operational command and control (C2); previously, the KCHQ would only be stood up in wartime.

In April 2024, both the KCHQ and by then-commander Major General Gholam Ali Rashid were sanctioned by the United Kingdom and Canada in response to Operation True Promise, the Iranian missile attack against Israel on 13 April, which Iran said was in retaliation to the Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus on 1 April.

On 13 June 2025, during the Iran–Israel war, Rashid was killed in an Israeli airstrike. He was succeeded by Brigadier General Ali Shadmani. Four days later, Shadmani was also killed in an Israeli airstrike. On 7 March 2026, during the 2026 Iran war, its chief of staff, Abu al Qasem Babaiyan, who also was the military secretary of Iran's supreme leader was assassinated by Israel.