Yahya Rahim Safavi
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Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi is the commander of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (Islamic Revolutionary Guards) of Iran.
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[edit] History
Rahim Safavi was one of the leaders of the Iraq-Iran War. Furthermore, he was only 23 years old during the war. Safavi is an ethnic Azari (one of the many in Iran's current power structure) and is currently the leader of Sepah-e Pasdaran, or commander-in chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards.
[edit] 11 September allegations
On September 6, 2006 his allegations caused a sensation, because the Iranian Supreme Commander accused the Bush Administration and the Israeli security service Mossad of ordering the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington DC. “The events of September 11 were ordered by U.S. [officials] and Mossad so that they could carry out their strategy of pre-emption and warmongering and unipolarisation in order to dominate the Middle East”, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi told military commanders on September 5, 2006. His comments were reported by the state-run news agency ISNA. General Safavi said that Iran was the leading force of the "Islamic world". "The geographic heart of the Islamic world is in Mecca and Medina. But, the political heart of the Islamic world is in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the flag-bearer of the front of Islamic awakening and the fronts of the awakening of third world nations”, he said.[1]
[edit] Asset freeze
On 2006-12-24, Rahim Safavi was listed in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1737 asking for his assets (among others') to be frozen because of alleged involvements in Iranian nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.[2]
