1. Mostafa Chamran received religious education from Ayatollah Taleqani and Morteza Motahari.
16 Facts About Mostafa Chamran
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Mostafa Chamran studied at Alborz High School and then graduated from University of Tehran with a bachelor's degree in electromechanics.
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Mostafa Chamran then went on to obtain his PhD in electrical engineering and plasma physics in 1963 from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Mostafa Chamran was one of the senior members of the Freedom Movement led by Mehdi Bazargan in the 1960s.
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Mostafa Chamran was part of the radical external wing together with Ebrahim Yazdi, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh and Ali Shariati.
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In 1971 Mostafa Chamran left the US for Lebanon and joined the camps of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Amal movement.
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Mostafa Chamran became a leading and founding member of the Islamic revolutionary movement in the Middle East, organizing and training guerrillas and revolutionary forces in Algeria, Egypt, Syria.
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Mostafa Chamran became an Amal member and "right-hand man of Sadr".
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Mostafa Chamran along with Sadegh Ghotbzadeh was part of the faction, called the "Syrian mafia", in the court of Khomeini, and there was a feud between his group and the Libya-friendly group, led by Mohammad Montazeri.
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Mostafa Chamran led the military operations in Kurdistan where Kurds rebelled against the Interim Government of Iran.
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Mostafa Chamran served as minister of defense from September 1979 to 1980, being the first civil defense minister of the Islamic Republic.
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Mostafa Chamran was married to a woman from Lebanon, Ghadeh Jaber.
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Mostafa Chamran was killed in Dehlavieh on 21 June 1981 as the war was raging on.
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Mostafa Chamran's death was regarded as "suspicious" and the related details have remained unclear.
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Mostafa Chamran was buried in the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran.
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Mostafa Chamran was posthumously given a hero status, and many buildings and streets in Iran and Lebanon were named for him, as well as a major expressway.