Mohammad Ali Jafari, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mohammad Ali Jafari

Iranian general

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1957

Place of Birth: Yazd, Yazd Province, Iran

Profession: military personnel, politician

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari (Persian: ??????? ??????, born 1 September 1957 in Yazd, also known as Aziz Jafari and Ali Jafari) is an Iranian general and former commander-in-chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
He was appointed by the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, on September 1, 2007, to succeed Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi.According to a September 2, 2007, report by Radio Free Europe, Radio Farda has described Jafari has been close to the conservative subfaction, which includes Mohsen Rezaee, the secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council and former commander of the IRGC and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, a former IRGC member and the mayor of Tehran.
The replacement of Safavi was thought to be a move to strengthen the conservative faction as a counterweight to the radicalizers around President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whom Safavi is close to."Observers appear to regard Jafari as principally a tactician, organizer, and 'technical' military man," according to Radio Free Europe.
The EU's official journal said the three Iranian Revolutionary Guard members, Jafari, General Qasem Soleimani and the Guard's deputy commander for intelligence, Hossein Taeb, were now subject to sanctions and had been "providing equipment and support to help the Syrian regime suppress protests in Syria".