Yousef Kolahdouz
Yousef Kolahdouz | |
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| Born | 22 December 1946 |
| Died | 30 September 1981 (aged 34) |
| Allegiance | Iran |
| Branch | Imperial Iranian Army Islamic Revolutionary Guards |
| Service years | 1964–1979 (Army) 1979–1981 (Revolutionary Guards) |
| Unit | Imperial Guard (1974–1979) |
| Commands | Islamic Revolutionary Guards (second-in-command) |
| Conflicts | Iran–Iraq War |
Yousef Kolahdouz (December 22, 1946 – September 30, 1981; Persian: یوسف کلاهدوز) was an Iranian general during the Iran-Iraq War. He is also counted as one of the founders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He became deputy commander of what was then known as the "Iranian Revolutionary Guards" shortly after the Iranian Revolution.
Kolahdouz was killed in the 1981 Iranian Air Force C-130 crash, when the Iranian Air Force Lockheed C-130 he was in crashed, near Tehran, in 1981; also killed in the crash of C-130H 5-8552 were the Minister of Defense and other high-ranking officers. In his memory, a street in Tehran is named after him.