Hossein Allahkaram

{{Short description|Iranian politician}}

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| honorific_prefix = Sardar

| name = Hossein Allahkaram

| image = Hossein_Allahkaram_2019-03-13.jpg

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1945}}{{citation|url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32016D0565|title=Council Decision (CFSP) 2016/565 of 11 April 2016 amending Decision 2011/235/CFSP concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran|date=11 April 2016|access-date=1 August 2017|publisher=European Union}}

| birth_place = Najafabad, Iran

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| party = Ansar-e-Hezbollah

| alma_mater = Islamic Azad University

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| branch = Revolutionary Guards

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| rank = Brigadier general{{cite book|last1=Crane|first1=Keith|last2=Lal|first2=Rollie|last3=Martini|first3=Jeffrey|title=Iran's Political, Demographic, and Economic Vulnerabilities|url=https://archive.org/details/iranspoliticalde00cran|url-access=limited|publisher=RAND Corporation|location=Santa Monica|page=[https://archive.org/details/iranspoliticalde00cran/page/n48 20]|year=2008|isbn=978-0-8330-4527-0|oclc=259715774}}

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| battles = Iran–Iraq War

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Hossein Allahkaram ({{langx|fa|حسین الله‌کرم}}) is an Iranian conservative activist, pundit{{cite book|last1=Pattanayak|first1=Satyanarayan|title=Persian Gulf States and the 9/11 Attacks: An Analysis|publisher=Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses|location=New Delhi|page=65|year=2004}} and former military officer.

He is head of the coordination council of Ansar-e-Hezbollah{{cite news|title=Iranian hard-liner alleges FM Zarif is American spy|publisher=Al-Monitor|author=Changiz M. Varzi|date=5 December 2016|url=http://al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/12/iran-allahkaram-hezbollah-zarif-spy-allegations-u-turn.html|accessdate=4 May 2017}} and is described as its theoretician.{{cite book|last1=Juneau|first1=Thomas|last2=Razavi|first2=Sam|title=Iranian Foreign Policy Since 2001: Alone in the World|publisher=Routledge|page=80|year=2013|isbn=9781135013899}}

Military career

A veteran of Iran–Iraq War, he was reported continuing to serve in the Revolutionary Guards as of 2001.{{cite book|last1=Rubin|first1=Michael|title=Into the Shadows: Radical Vigilantes in Khatami's Iran|date=2001|publisher=Washington Institute for Near East Policy|isbn=978-0944029459|pages=46, 50, 57}} According to some sources, he commanded the Quds Force in the Bosnian War along with Mohammad Reza Naqdi.{{Citation|first1=Ali|last1=Alfoneh|title=Iran Unveiled: How the Revolutionary Guards Is Transforming Iran from Theocracy into Military Dictatorship|publisher=American Enterprise Institute|year=2013|page=230|isbn=9780844772554}}

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Category:Living people

Category:Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps brigadier generals

Category:Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel of the Iran–Iraq War

Category:Ansar-e Hezbollah politicians

Category:Political commentators

Category:1945 births

Category:Iranian individuals subject to U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions

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