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Ministry of War and National Defence
(Phone -----)
Number: 603-05-26
Date: 13 Khordad 1359 [3 June 1980]
Enclosure: Six pages as per description
From: ABVAB AJA[1] (Administration Office)
To: Bank Sepah (Salaried Personnel Office)
Subject: Termination of Pension
In the Name of God
Confidential, Direct
Urgent action required
- [A list of the] names of 131 personnel, who, due to their adherence to the Baha’i sect, have been dismissed from the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran with their pensions revoked (as if they never existed), and where the order has been published in the General Decree of the Army of Islamic Republic, is included herein as Attachment A.
- [A list of the] names of 37 personnel, whose dismissal order has been issued because of [their] being Baha’is, and where the order will shortly be communicated via the Army General Decree, is also attached herein as Attachment B.
- Please issue orders:
- To take immediate action and stop payments to all personnel listed in Attachment A, as well as to prevent payments to all personnel in Attachment B. These measures will be communicated by this office to the Special Operations Branch of the Ministry of National Defence for registration, and the relevant orders will subsequently be communicated to that bank.
- Inform each and every one of them that they can refer to the Department of Insurance and Retirement and fill in the “Non-ideological Propaganda” application form. This form will be sent to the Ministry of National Defence and in case of approval by the Ministry, on resumption of payment, the results will be communicated to that bank.
Head of Pension and Insurance Office of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Brigadier General Dr. Ali-Naghi Shayanfar
Attachment A. Number 603-05-26, dated 13 Khordad 1359 [3 June 1980] Abvab Aja
[With Order 84]
1. Infantry Colonel Anvar Mosaddegh Kahnamouie 63080B
2. Artillery Colonel Sohrab Samimi Gharaie 63058B
3. Telecommunications Colonel Farhad Yeganeh Pakzad
4. Infantry Colonel Zia Ighani 63945B
5. Infantry Colonel Kourosh Tolouie 65811B
6. Lieutenant Colonel Veterinarian Ataollah Horrzadeh 65285B
7. Adjutant Major Alijan Akhavan 64711B
[With order 104]
8. Lieutenant General Abdol-Karim Ayadi 59317B
9. Lieutenant General Hosein Rastegar-Namdar 59318B
10. Lieutenant General Asadollah Saniee 31565B
11. Major General Enayatollah Zowghi 60818B
12. Major General Shoaollah Alaie 533 B
13. Brigadier General Ataollah Mogharrabi 50559B
14. Brigadier General Zia Nikoubonyad
15. Brigadier General Jahangir Mehryanejad 62112B
16. Brigadier General Esmail Yazdani 60421B
[With order 75]
17. Brigadier General Mohammad Sahaie 73309RM
18. Telecommunications Third Lieutenant Seyyed Ali Zamani
19. Telecommunications Colonel Hosein Sharifi (Father’s name: Ramazan-Ali)
20. Telecommunications Colonel Hosein Sharifi (Father’s name: Naser-Gholi)
21. Infantry Lieutenant Colonel Masoud Farzaneh
22. Infantry Colonel Hosein Fahandej Saadi 60344B
23. First Lieutenant Engineer Mohammad Nemati Vadeghani
24. Colonel Doctor Nosratollah Ghaem-Maghami
25. Infantry Major Naser Ayyoubzadeh
26. Judicial Major Daryoush Faranpour
27. Electronic Naval Major Houtan Meshkin-Nafas
28. Transportation Naval Major Iraj Yazdani 69370RB
29. Naval Major Fardad Ghaemi Mahmoudzadeh
30. Colonel Dentist Houshang Davari 68366RB
31. Colonel Doctor Habibollah Yazdani
32. Infantry Colonel Nosratollah Vahdat
[In order 24]
69. Infantry Colonel Gholam-Hosein Fathi 23029B
70. Colonel Manouchehr Monshizadeh Farahani 55403B
71. Lieutenant Nabi Ghorbani 16798B
72. Equivalent Lieutenant Seifollah Monaseki 29010B
73. Telecommunications Major Shapour Asgarpour 58511B
74. Colonel Doctor Hosein Naji 59992B
75. Brigadier General Veterinarian Ali-Mohammad Barafroukhteh 4348B
76. Colonel Habibollah Salahshoor 64634B
77. Colonel Yadollah Vahdat 4357B
78. Telecommunications Colonel (staff) Amanollah Vosough Tafti 60901B
79. Telecommunications Colonel Hosein Vahdat-i-Hagh 57083B
80. Telecommunications Colonel Mohammad-Ali Pejman Haddadian 61877B
81. Infantry Lieutenant Colonel Noureddin Derakhshan 60900B
82. Telecommunications Colonel Jalal Fazilat 63272B
83. Infantry Colonel Ghodratollah Fanaie Sharifi 16016
84. Telecommunications Colonel Ali-Akbar [illegible]
85. Ordinance Major Daryoush Tahmasebi Ghareshiran
86. Judicial Major Laghaollah Fanaian 64805B
87. Telecommunications Colonel Jahangir Khoshsegal 64917B
88. Infantry Colonel (staff) Mousa Askarpour 63277B
89. Technical Air Force Colonel Sirous Sanavi Tamadon 62575B
90. Colonel of the Army Staff Yousef Berelian
91. Infantry Colonel Abbas Dabirian 20647B
92. Telecommunications Colonel Hasan Rezvani 59326B
93. Lieutenant Colonel Engineer Borzou Lamakan 38518B
94. Artillery Lieutenant Colonel Azamatollah Fahandej
95. Colonel Doctor Mehdi-Gholi Shadman 64460B
96. Colonel Doctor Manouchehr Shafaie 59968B
97. Colonel Doctor Asadollah Bargh [illegible] 63094B
98. Infantry Colonel Sadollah [Asadollah] Vakht-Nezami 64446B
99. Infantry Colonel Parviz Shafie Javid 62624B
100. Colonel Doctor Faramarz Bassari
101. Artillery Colonel Ataollah Eshraghi Najafabadi64796B
102. Music Colonel Azizollah Ahmadian 64937B
103. Adjutant Colonel Kourosh Alaie 640007
Ministry of National Defence
[Official stamp]
Pension and Insurance Office
[Stamp at the top and bottom of page 1] Confidential, Direct stamp
[2 stamps with number and date at the bottom of page 1] Entry registration of the letter
[Stamp and written remarks at the bottom of page 3]
[1] [Acronym: Pension and Insurance Office of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran]