Mahmud Mir-Djalali
Mahmud Mir-Djalali | |
|---|---|
محمود میرجلالی | |
| Vice Chairman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces | |
| In office 1955–1957 | |
| Monarch | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
| Chairman | Abdollah Hedayat |
| Preceded by | position established |
| Deputy Minister of War | |
| In office 12 March 1951 – 27 April 1951 | |
| Monarch | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
| Prime Minister | Hossein Ala' |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 January 1898 Tehran, Sublime State of Iran |
| Died | 3 May 1983 (aged 85) Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran |
| Spouse | Fakhr Azam Darai |
| Children | Fereydoun Bahram Elahe Aliyeh |
| Alma mater | Mošir-al-Dawla Military School École spéciale militaire de Fontainebleau National War University |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Imperial State of Iran |
| Branch/service | Imperial Iranian Army |
| Years of service | 1920–1957 |
| Rank | Major General |
| Commands | Persian Cossack Brigade Iranian Armed Forces |
| Battles/wars | Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran Abadan Crisis 1953 Iranian coup d'état |
Major General Mahmud Mir-Djalali (Persian: محمود میرجلالی; 28 January 1898 – 3 May 1983) was an Iranian military commander who served as Vice Chairman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
Initially starting his career with the Persian Cossack Brigade in 1920 and playing a critical role in the 1921 Pahlavi coup, Mir-Djalali led the establishing of the Mechanized Artillery Forces and Military Industries of Iran under Reza Shah Pahlavi with the Czechoslovak Arms companies Škoda Works, ČKD, and Zbrojovka Brno, building out key sites like Base J, Saltanatabad Arms Factory and the Parchin Chemical and Explosives Factory.
For this, General Mir-Djalali was known within the Imperial Military as the "Father" of Iran's Armored Forces and Military Industrial Complex. He is also the maternal grandfather of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, whose purchase of PayPal in 2002 would jumpstart the rise of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.