Mousa Namjoo

Mousa Namjoo (Persian: سید موسی نامجو; 17 December 1938 – 29 September 1981) was an Iranian military who served as the minister of defence and armed forces logistics in August to September 1981.

Mousa Namjoo
Born17 December 1938
Bandar-e Anzali, Imperial State of Iran
Died29 September 1981(1981-09-29) (aged 42)
Kahrizak, Iran
AllegianceIran
Service/branchGround Force
Years of service1958–1981
RankColonel
Battles/warsIran–Iraq War
Awards Order of Nasr
Alma materImam Ali Military University
Minister of National Defense
In office
17 August 1981 – 29 September 1981
Prime MinisterMohammad-Javad Bahonar
Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
Preceded byJavad Fakoori
Succeeded byMohammad Salimi

Biography

Namjoo was born in Bandar-e Anzali on 17 December 1938.[1] He graduated from Officers' School.[2] He was married and had three children.[3]

He worked at the National Military Academy with the rank of colonel.[4][5][6] He was instrumental in developing a cooperation between the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and army before and during the Iran Iraq war.[6] He also fought in the war.[7] He was appointed minister of defence and armed forces logistics to the interim government led by Prime Minister Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani on 2 September 1981.[8][9]

Death
Main article: 1981 Iranian Air Force C-130 crash

Namjoo was killed in a plane crash together with 80 other people on 29 September 1981 near Tehran.[5][7] The aircraft was a US-made C-130 Hercules transport plane.[10][11] Other leading military figures killed in the crash were Valiollah Fallahi, Javad Fakoori and Yousef Kolahdouz.[12][13] They were returning to Tehran from southwestern battlefront with Iraq.[14] On 1 October 1981, a funeral service was held for Namjoo and other victims at the military academy in Tehran.[10]

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini made a speech following the incident indicating the Mujahedeen Khalq as the perpetrator without clearly condemning the leftist group.[14]

Legacy

Namjoo's biography entitled A Man with Orange Color was published by Ezzatollah Alvandi in 2005.[15]

References
  1. Ezzatolah Alvandi (2005). مردی به رنگ پرتقال (شهید سید موسی نامجو) (in Persian). Tehran: Shahed. ISBN 964-394-210-4.
  2. شهید سرلشکر موسی نامجوی Archived 13 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine وب‌گاه رسمی وزارت دفاع ایران] Ministry of Defence (in Persian)
  3. خاطراتی ازشهید سرتیپ خلبان سید موسی نامجو وب‌گاه رسمی مرتضی آوینی] Aviny (in Persian)
  4. Nikola B. Schahgaldian; Gina Barkhordarian (March 1987). The Iranian Military Under the Islamic Republic. RAND. ISBN 0-8330-0777-7.
  5. "The Revolutionary Period". Country Data. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  6. "National security". Pars Times. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
  7. John Kiefner (1 October 1981). "4 military chiefs in Iran are killed in a plane crash". The New York Times. Beirut. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  8. Mir M. Hosseini. "Interim Government Formed". Fouman. Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  9. Mehrzad Boroujerdi; Kourosh Rahimkhani (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran. A Political Handbook. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0815635741.
  10. "Crash kills Iranian military leaders". Herald Journal. Beirut. AP. 1 October 1981. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  11. "103 Reported Killed as Iranian Army Plane Crashes; Altimeter Suspected". Los Angeles Times. Tehran. 4 November 1984. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  12. "Iranian military aircraft crashes". Sarasota Journal. UPI. 30 September 1981. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  13. Sepehr Zabir (2011). Iran Since the Revolution (RLE Iran A). London; New York: Routledge. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-415-61069-8.
  14. "Crash kills four top Iranian officers". The Daily Egyptian. Vol. 66, no. 29. Beirut. AP. 1 October 1981. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  15. "Biography of Martyr Namjoo". Tehran: Shahed. 16 September 2005. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
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