Mohsen Rezaee

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Mosen Rezaee Lecturing at Sharif University of Technology for presidential campaign

Mohsen Rezaee Mirgha'ed (محسن رضائی), born Sabzevar Rezaee Mirgha'ed in September 1954, is an Iranian politician, professor, and military commander, currently the Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran. Before that, Rezaee was the Chief Commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and a key commander of the Iran-Iraq War.

Born in Masjed Soleiman, Khuzestan, Rezaee became the Chief Commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in 1981, when he was only twenty-seven years old, and remained in the post until 1997, when he left the military for the Expediency Discernment Council, where he became the Secretary and the Chair of the Commission for Macroeconomics and Commerce.

Rezai is also the acting head of the government based International Anti-Zionist Movement.^[1]

Rezaee was a candidate of the Iranian presidential election of 2005, but withdrew on June 15, 2005, only two days before the election and a few hours before the legal deadline for advertisements. Rezaee mentioned he is withdrawing from the race for "the integraton of the votes of the nation" and "their effectiveness". He did not endorse any candidate.^[2] His Speaker for the campaign, Ali Ahmadi, had compared Rezaee with Charles de Gaulle.

Rezaee has five children, two sons and three daughters. One of his sons, Ahmad Rezaee, has migrated to the United States and has spoken against his father and the policies of the Iranian government.