Mohammad-Hossein Malekzadegan

{{Short description|Iranian military officer}}

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| name = Mohammad-Hossein Malekzadegan

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|09|28|df=y}}

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| allegiance = Iran

| branch = Navy

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| rank = Commodore{{citation|title=Iran Attacks Tanker; 3 More Mines Destroyed in Gulf|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/20/world/iran-attacks-tanker-3-more-mines-destroyed-in-gulf.html|work=The New York Times|date=20 April 1988|author=Steve Lohgr|page=16}}

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| commands = Southern Fleet

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• Iran–Iraq War
• Operation Praying Mantis

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Mohammad-Hossein Malekzadegan ({{langx|fa|محمدحسین ملک‌زادگان}}; b. 1944) is an Iranian retired military officer who served as the Commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy from 1985 to 1989. As of 2016, he was a board member of Chabahar Free Trade-Industrial Zone.{{citation|title=Chabahar Development Project Making Rapid Progress|url=https://financialtribune.com/articles/economy-domestic-economy/50860/chabahar-development-project-making-rapid-progress|work=Financial Tribune|date=2 October 2016}}

Malekzadegan ranked captain when he was appointed to the position on 27 June 1985, having previously served as the commander of the south fleet in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman since June 1983, and a deputy to the navy commander after 10 October 1980.{{citation|author=Nikola B. Schahgaldian, Gina Barkhordarian|title=The Iranian Military Under the Islamic Republic|url=https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reports/2007/R3473.pdf|publisher=RAND|isbn=0-8330-0777-7|date=March 1987|access-date=15 January 2017|page=114}} According to Pierre Razoux, his appointment "reinvigorated" Iran's regular naval forces that were in a rivalry with the Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.{{cite book|last1=Razoux|first1=Pierre|date=2015|title=The Iran-Iraq War|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=9780674915718|pages=342–343}}

Malekzadegan was in command during the Iranian Navy's biggest one-day defeat: Operation Praying Mantis, the U.S. military's 18 April 1988 retaliation for the Iranian mining of the guided missile frigate Samuel B. Roberts.{{Cite news |title=Iranians' Words of Praise for Their Forces |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.comhttp//timesmachine.content-tagging.us-east-1-01.prd.dvsp.nyt.net/timesmachine/1988/04/27/916188.html?pageNumber=22 |access-date=2024-02-06 |work=The New York Times |language=en}}