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Seyyed Mohammad Ali Jahanara (9 Shahrivar 1333 - 7 Mehr 1360) was an Iranian military commander who was a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps during the Iran-Iraq war and commanded the Khorramshahr Corps. He played a key role in operations such as the Battle of Khorramshahr and Hesr Abadan.

Jahanara started political activity before the 1357 revolution, against the Pahlavi monarchy, in the Mansurun group. He was killed on October 7, 1360, following the crash of a Hercules C-130 flight of the Air Force in the Kahrizak area in the south of Tehran. Due to his services in defending and breaking the siege of Abadan, he was later awarded the rank of major general.

biography, diary
Mohammad Jahanara was born on 9 Shahrivar 1333 in Khorramshahr city, Khuzestan province.

before the revolution
In 1348, under the influence of the Islamic movement led by Ruhollah Khomeini, along with some of his like-minded people, he entered into political campaigns against the government of Muhammad Reza Pahlavi and launched the Allah Akbar group.At the end of 1349, along with his brother, he became a member of the secret group of Hizbullah Khorramshahr organization. In 1351, it was identified by members of the SAVAK group and all its members were arrested and imprisoned. During this arrest, Mohammad Jahanara was sentenced to only one year in prison due to his young age and was transferred to Ahvaz prison.

After receiving his diploma in 1354, he participated in the university entrance exam and went to Tabriz High School of Commerce to continue his studies.In 1355, Jahanara became a member of the Mansurun group, which was a group that believed in armed struggle.In 1357, when he was supposed to travel to Syria and the Palestinian resistance camps under the supervision of Seyyed Ali Andarzgo, he was unable to travel due to the massacre of the people of Tehran in Jhaleh Square on the 17th of September 1357.

In the fall of 1357, following the deployment of army tanks to the streets of Ahvaz, the Mansurun group decided to defend the demonstrators with armed forces. In one of these clashes with the armored forces, the group members injured about 30 members of the imperial army.

After the revolution
After the victory of the 1357 revolution, Jahanara returned to Khorramshahr after 2 and a half years of secret life. He and his associates in Khorramshahr formed a group called the Khorramshahr Revolutionaries Cultural-Military Center.

In 1358, he assumed the command of the Khorramshahr Guards Corps and at the same time founded the construction jihad of Khorramshahr. With the start of the Iran-Iraq war, he defended Khorramshahr alongside the people of this city. After the fall of Khorramshahr and removal of Abul Hasan Bani Sadr from the position of commander-in-chief, a new phase of the Iran-Iraq war began, after which the siege of Abadan was broken and this city was liberated by Iranian forces on 19 Mehr 1360.

To be killed
Following the recapture of Abadan from the Iraqi army forces, on Mehr 7, 1360, Mohammad Jahanara and a number of commanders went to Tehran to report the performance of the Iranian forces to the then leader of the Islamic Republic. Ruhollah Khomeini, but in the middle of the way, due to the crash of the plane carrying them, some of the passengers, including Jahanara, were killed in the Hercules C-130 flight of the Air Force.According to Hoshang Samadi, one of the naval commanders of the army, during the Iran-Iraq war, this plane fell not due to an accident, but due to a defense shot and an anti-aircraft missile hitting it.

In the official narratives, the cause of death was technical failure and the plane crash.After the liberation of Khorramshahr, Javad Azizi of the Guards Corps in Khorramshahr sang the famous lament "Mommed Nobodi Bebini" in memory of Mohammad Jahanara, and Hossein Fakhri, one of his comrades, sang it at his grave for the first time, and one year later, Ghulam Kuytipour also sang it at his grave. With the anniversary of the liberation of Khorramshahr, he read it again.

Regarding the causes of death of Javad Fakuri (who is one of the passengers killed in this accident), Nouruddin Kianuri openly questioned the coincidence of the plane crash and saw the hand of "enemy agents". Abolhassan Bani Sadr also considers the crash of this plane to be the work of the government in various interviews and believes that the plane did not explode in the sky for no reason.

Other people and persons such as Mahmoud Khorramdel; The co-pilot of this flight, Colonel Solati, the flight's chief pilot, Captain Hoshang Samadi, the commander of the Marine Rangers defending Khorramshahr, and Mohammad Ali Sharif Al-Nasab, one of the middle commanders of the army during the war, also mentioned this incident as 100% suspicious and the result of an internal defense missile being fired at the plane.

Family
Mohammad Jahanara got married in 1358. His older brother was captured in the invasion of Iraqi forces in Khorramshahr, and no trace of him was ever found. Ali Jahanara, his other brother, was also arrested in 1356 and was killed in prison on May 2, 1357. Hassan Jahanara, his younger brother, was sentenced to 7 years in prison in 1367 on the charge of association with the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran and was executed during the execution of political prisoners in the summer of 1367.

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External link
* Yakta, Hossein. "Jhanara" Encyclopedia of Islamic World. Archived from the original on 28 August 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2015.

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* Mohammad Jahanara Encyclopaedia of Islamic World.