Ahmad Vahidi
Ahmad Vahidi | |
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احمد وحیدی | |
Vahidi in 2022 | |
| Minister of Interior | |
| In office 25 August 2021 – 21 August 2024 | |
| President | Ebrahim Raisi Mohammad Mokhber (acting) Masoud Pezeshkian |
| Preceded by | Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli |
| Succeeded by | Eskandar Momeni |
| Member of Expediency Discernment Council | |
| Assumed office 14 March 2012 | |
| Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
| Chairman | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ali Movahedi-Kermani (Acting) Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Sadeq Larijani |
| Minister of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics | |
| In office 3 September 2009 – 15 August 2013 | |
| President | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| Preceded by | Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar |
| Succeeded by | Hossein Dehghan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ahmad Shahcheraghi 27 June 1958 Shiraz, Imperial State of Iran |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Iran |
| Branch/service | IRGC |
| Years of service | 1980–2021 |
| Rank | Brigadier General |
| Commands | Quds Force |
| Battles/wars | Iran–Iraq War |
Ahmad Shahcheraghi (Persian: احمد شاهچراغی, born 27 June 1958), better known as Ahmad Vahidi (Persian: احمد وحیدی), is an Iranian military commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and former Iranian Minister of Interior from 2021 to 2024. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council. Interpol has issued a red notice for the his arrest in connection with the 1994 AMIA bombing.
In 1988, he was appointed commander of the extraterritorial special forces of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Quds Force, which specializes in unconventional warfare and military intelligence operations. He was the minister of defense under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 3 September 2009 until 15 August 2013. Vahidi was president of the Supreme National Defense University from August 2016 to 2021.