Talk:General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran

former name
Hi setad-e farmandehi-ye koll-e qova was the former name of the setad-e koll-e niruha-ye mosallah. That name was changed on January 1992:

I think you had mistaken the office with ra'is-e daftar-e nezami-e farmandeh-e koll-e qova which was created later:

Benyamin (talk) 20:19, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Benyamin. I understand the difference. The question is to whether count Mousavi's wartime title the same as that office or not. Sources seem not to acknowledge Mousavi as a predecessor to Maj. Gen. Firouzabadi. This is from Sinkaya's book:

"With the end  of  the  war  with  Iraq  in  July  1988,  the  IRGC  was  reformed  to  create new conditions under the direction of Hashemi Rafsanjani. Ayatollah Khomeini had appointed Rafsanjani as the Acting Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces two months prior to the end of the war and commissioned him to combine the  armed  forces  under  a  single  command  and  to  improve  the  military  capacity  of  Iran.  Rafsanjani,  initially,  established  the  Headquarters  of  the  General  Command  of  Forces  (Setad-e  Farmandehe-ye  Koll-e  Ghovva),  combining  the  joint  staffs of the Army and the IRGC..."

Somewhere else it says: "Against this background, the first step taken as part of the reformation of the security organizations was  the  unification  of  the  Joint  Staffs  of  the  Army  and  the  IRGC  under  the  Headquarters  of  the  General  Command  of  Forces  (Setad-e Farmandehe-ye  Koll-e  Ghovva)  in  July  1989.  For  a  while,  Rafsanjani  himself  oversaw the Headquarters of the General Command of Forces with his capacity as  Acting  Commander  in  Chief.  Soon  after  the  resignation  of  Rafsanjani  from  that post – he was elected president in July 1989 – Ayatollah Khamanei appointed Dr. Sayyid Hassan Firouzabadi as the Chief of the Headquarters of the General Command. By a decree issued by Khamanei in January 1992, the Headquarters of the General Command was renamed the General Staff of Armed Forces (Setad-e Koll-e Nerouhaa-ye Mosalleh)."

Hesam Forozan: "To coordinate the Sepah’s activities with those of the Artesh, command ofthe Sepah and Artesh are formally subordinated to the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (Setad-e Kol-e Niruha-ye Mosalah, occupied by Hassan Firouzabadi since 1990)... The two offices were set up in 1989... Before then, the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, previously known as the General Staff of the Commander-inChief of the Armed Forces, was delegated with the command and coordination of the army’s ground force, air force and navy divisions"

–Pahlevun (talk) 20:56, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Hmmm… Firouzabadi was the Mousavi's deputy and succeeded him on mid 1989. Better sources should be found. Benyamin (talk) 21:18, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi again. Farzin Nadimi from The Washington Institute for Near East Policy:
 * Benyamin (talk) 19:02, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I think that could be used as a source. Nadimi (who previously went by the alias "Fariborz Haghshenass") has a subtle anti-Iran bias in his works and sometimes cites inaccurate points (like this one, which wrongly dates Firouzabadi's military rank back to 1989, despite the fact it was given in 1995). Do we have a date for appointment of Mousavi? Pahlevun (talk) 09:30, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Nadimi also explicated that the AFGS was formed in June 1988. This point whould not be an inaccurate one. Michael Eisenstadt, Director of the Military and Security Studies Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, wrote that: In June 1988, following several major battlefield reversals during the latter stages of the Iran—Iraq War, it created a joint Armed Forces General Staff that brought together the upper echelons of the regular military and the IRGC to ensure greater unity of command. and Kevjn Lim wrote that in June 1988, a Joint General Staff of the Armed Forces was established. Except those three, Anthony Cordesman mentioned that: The general staff of the armed forces was created in June, 1988 and RAND Corporation's report stated that The first steps of the reforms, however, were being taken even before the implementation of the UN-brokered cease-fire in July 1988, as the creation in June 1988 of a joint Armed Forces General Staff illustrates.
 * Are you doubtful for the fact of appointment or want to reach the maximum level of WP:VERIFY? Mahmoud Alizadeh-Tabatabaei in an interview with Irān-e Fardā described the creation of the General Staff as follows:
 * Benyamin (talk) 15:18, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I have already accepted the source you provided, and I'm surprised that you think I have requested more sources. The only thing that I wanted to know was the date Mousavi was appointed to the office, because we know that Firouzabadi took office on 26 September 1989 and Rafsanjani was responsible during early formative days. That should be sometime between July 1988 and June 1989, I guess, and his appointer is probably Rafsanjani. Pahlevun (talk) 15:50, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, it seems that Rafsanjani was the appointer. Behzad Nabavi had told that:
 * I had gathered a chronology of the deputies at here.
 * Benyamin (talk) 15:55, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * That totally makes sense because there is no sign of his appointment on Sahifa of Imam. Mousavi left Prime Minister office on 14 August 1989 and there's a gap between that day and 26 September 1989. I could not find anything about the exact date of his tenure. Pahlevun (talk) 16:44, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I had gathered a chronology of the deputies at here.
 * Benyamin (talk) 15:55, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * That totally makes sense because there is no sign of his appointment on Sahifa of Imam. Mousavi left Prime Minister office on 14 August 1989 and there's a gap between that day and 26 September 1989. I could not find anything about the exact date of his tenure. Pahlevun (talk) 16:44, 8 October 2020 (UTC)