Jafar Shafaghat was born in Tabriz in 1915, to an Azerbaijani family.
13 Facts About Jafar Shafaghat
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Jafar Shafaghat later served in the Imperial guard, and ultimately was appointed commander of the shah's guard with the rank of captain.
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Jafar Shafaghat served as the commander of the 1st Division of the Imperial Guard until 1950 with the rank of Colonel.
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Jafar Shafaghat attended L'Ecole d'Application de l'Infanterie pour officiers et sous-officiers, colocalisee avec l'ecole nationale des sous-officiers d'active, appelee communement Saint-Maixent in France and graduated 1953.
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Jafar Shafaghat came back from France during the Mossadegh uprising and then went back a second time and graduated from Ecole superieure de guerre as part of the 70th group of graduates.
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Jafar Shafaghat was the chief of staff of the army and deputy chief of staff until he was appointed commander of the 2nd Army.
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Jafar Shafaghat took several courses of command in France and the United States, and received a doctorate in international law from the Sorbonne, and was a military judge.
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General Jafar Shafaghat took an active part in the reconstruction of the Iranian Imperial Guard in 1942, the strength of which was 700 volunteers.
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General Jafar Shafaghat attended the coronation of Mohammad Reza Shah on 26 October 1967 and personally handed over the Pahlavi Crown to the Shah.
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On 6 March 1978, General Jafar Shafaghat was appointed governor of East Azerbaijan province.
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General Jafar Shafaghat was the only high-ranking officer of the Iranian Shah's army who refused to sign a document on the surrender of the army to the revolutionary forces in February 1979 and deleted his name from the list.
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However General Jafar Shafaghat was in hiding and was never detained.
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Jafar Shafaghat died on 4 February 2001, in the southern French city of Nice, at the age of 85, where he was buried.