Mohsen Rezai
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Sardar Mohsen Rezaee |
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Rezaee in 2016
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| Birth name | Sabzevar Rezaei Mirgha'ed |
| Born |
9 September 1954 Masjed Soleyman, Khuzestan Province, Iran |
| Allegiance |
 Iran
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| Service/branch |
 Revolutionary Guards
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| Years of service | 1980–1997 2015–present |
| Rank |
 Major General
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| Commands held | Revolutionary Guards |
| Battles/wars | Iran–Iraq War |
| Awards |
 Order of Fath (1st class)
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| Other work | Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council (since 1997) |
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Mohsen Rezaee Mirgha'ed (Persian: محسن رضایی میرقائد, born Sabzevar Rezaei Mirgha'ed on 9 September 1954) is an Iranian politician formerly affiliated with Resistance Front of Islamic Iran and senior military officer in the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution who currently holds office as the secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council.
Before the Iranian Revolution, Rezaee was a member of the Islamist guerilla rebel group Mansouroun and joined the Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization following the revolution.
Dubbed a "perennial candidate", Rezaei ran as a conservative presidential candidate in the 2009 elections, coming third with 1.7 percent of the vote, behind winner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and reformist runner-up Mir-Hossein Mousavi. He was also a candidate in 2013 presidential election and received 3,884,412 votes. He ranked fourth behind winner Hassan Rouhani, runner-up Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Saeed Jalili.
Rezaei was born in Masjed Soleyman on 9 September 1954 to a religious Bakhtiyari nomadic family. He spent his childhood and adolescence in the oil-rich city of Masjed Soleyman (Irsoleymān) in southwestern Iran. Along with his close friends, he established the "Religion and Science Association". When he was to begin studying at a school run by National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) in 1969, Rezaei moved to the city of Ahvaz. At high school, he started his political and cultural struggle against the Shah's regime. In the last year of high school, he was arrested by the Shah Security service SAVAK in Ahvaz, interrogated and tortured. He was 17 when he served five months in solitary confinement. He did not stop his political activities after he was released from prison. Rezaei arrived in Tehran in 1974 to study mechanical engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology. He studied and worked at the same time. SAVAK intensified its crackdown on guerrilla groups to which he was a member. He had to abandon the university. He launched provincial branches of Mansouroun guerrilla fighters in seven provinces. When Ruhollah Khomeini returned home from exile, the Mansouroun group was tasked with protecting the revolutionary leader. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, seven armed Muslim groups teamed up and established the Islamic Revolution Mujahideen Organization to safeguard the nascent Islamic Revolution.
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