Ministry of Revolutionary Guards

Merged into Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics

JurisdictionIslamic Revolutionary Guard CorpsAnnual budget$700 million (1987)^[1]

Ministry of Guards (Persian: وزارت سپاه, romanized: Vezārat-e Sepāh) was a government ministry in Iran between 1982 and 1989,^[3] which mainly acted as a ministry of defence dedicated to logistically supply the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.^[1] By having its own ministry, the Corps were able to acquire a powerful voice in the cabinet of Iran.^[4] It also implied greater regulation and supervision over the Corps by placing its acquisitions and purchases under and the audit and purview of the government.^[1]

It mirrored the existing parallel Ministry of National Defence^[4] (the word "National" was dropped in 1984) which solely supported and addressed the administrative affairs of the Iranian Army (Artesh) during these years.^[2] In 1989, it was dissolved and reintegrated into the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL),^[3] in order to centralize military logistics among the Iranian Armed Forces.^[2]

Ministers

No.	Minister	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Ref.
1	Rafighdoost, MohsenMohsen Rafighdoost (born 1940)	November 1982	13 September 1988	5 years, 317 days	^[1]
–	Pakravaan, MahmoudMahmoud Pakravaan Acting	13 September 1988	20 September 1988	7 days	^[5]
2	Shamkhani, AliAli Shamkhani (born 1955)	20 September 1988	21 August 1989	335 days	^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Rahnema, Ali (February 20, 2013) [December 15, 2008]. "ii. Jamʿiyat-e Moʾtalefa and the Islamic Revolution". JAMʿIYAT-E MOʾTALEFA-YE ESLĀMI i. Hayʾathā-ye Moʾtalefa-ye Eslāmi 1963–79. Encyclopædia Iranica. Fasc. 5. Vol. XIV. New York City: Bibliotheca Persica Press. pp. 483–500. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c Sinkaya, Bayram (2015), The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics: Elites and Shifting Relations, Routledge, pp. 55–56, ISBN 978-1-317-52564-6
^ ^a ^b Frederic Wehrey; Jerrold D. Green; Brian Nichiporuk; Alireza Nader; Lydia Hansell; Rasool Nafisi; S. R. Bohandy (2009), The Rise of the Pasdaran: Assessing the Domestic Roles of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (PDF), RAND Corporation, p. 110, ISBN 978-0-8330-4620-8
^ ^a ^b Daniel Byman; Shahram Chubin; Anoushiravan Ehteshami; Jerrold D. Green (2015), Iran's Security Policy in the Post-Revolutionary Era, RAND Corporation, p. 35, ISBN 978-0-8330-2971-3
^ Allamian, Saeed (2016). For The Record: Memoirs of Mohsen Rafighdoost (in Persian). Tehran: Soore Mehr. p. 421. ISBN 978-600-030-293-1.