Mostafa Mohammad Najjar
| Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar | |
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| Minister of Interior | |
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In office 9 August 2009 – 15 August 2013 |
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| President | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| Preceded by | Sadegh Mahsouli |
| Succeeded by | Abdolreza Rahmani |
| Minister of Defense | |
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In office 9 August 2005 – 9 August 2009 |
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| President | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| Preceded by | Ali Shamkhani |
| Succeeded by | Ahmad Vahidi |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
2 December 1956 Tehran, Iran |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 Iran
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| Service/branch |
 IRGC Ground Forces
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| Years of service | 1981–2009 |
| Rank |
 Brigadier General
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Mostafa Mohammad Najjar (Persian: مصطفى محمد نجّار, born 2 December 1956) is an Iranian politician and former army general. He was interior minister of Iran from 2009 to 2013 and minister of defense in the first cabinet of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 2005 to 2009. He is also a veteran of the IRGC.
Najjar was born on 2 December 1956 in Tehran, ethnicity Azerbaijani, from Bostanabad. He graduated from K. N. Toosi University of Technology in 1977 and holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology (1984) and a master’s degree in strategic management from the University of Industrial Management (2004).
Najjar joined the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (IRGC) when the body was established in 1979, where he was in charge of the Middle East Department, with Israel, Lebanon and the Persian Gulf as places of particular attention. As an IRGC commander, he served in Lebanon.
Previous positions include:
He was also active for military service in Kurdistan from 1980 to 1985 in the Iran-Iraq War and was appointed head of Saad by Yahya Rahim Safavi in 1995.
Najjar was posted to the Parliament and ministry of defense by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in August 2005. He received 191 to 62 of votes and became minister on 9 August 2005. He was minister until August 2009, when Ahmadinejad was reelected and appointed Mohammad-Najjar as minister of interior. He received 178 to 72 of votes and became minister to succeed Sadegh Mahsouli.
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