Mousa Namjoo

Namjoo was born in Bandar-e Anzali on 17 December 1938.{{cite book|author=Ezzatolah Alvandi|script-title=fa:مردی به رنگ پرتقال (شهید سید موسی نامجو)|year=2005|publisher=Shahed|location=Tehran|language=fa|isbn=964-394-210-4}} He graduated from Officers' School.[http://mod.ir/content/%D8%B4%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%AF-%D8%B3%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B4%DA%A9%D8%B1-%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C-%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%88%DB%8C شهید سرلشکر موسی نامجوی] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013164141/http://mod.ir/content/%D8%B4%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%AF-%D8%B3%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B4%DA%A9%D8%B1-%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C-%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%88%DB%8C|date=13 October 2013 }} وب‌گاه رسمی وزارت دفاع ایران] Ministry of Defence (in Persian) He was married and had three children.[http://www.aviny.com/rahiyan_noor/revaiat-eshgh/khatere/52.aspx خاطراتی ازشهید سرتیپ خلبان سید موسی نامجو] وب‌گاه رسمی مرتضی آوینی] Aviny (in Persian)

He worked at the National Military Academy with the rank of colonel.{{cite book|author1=Nikola B. Schahgaldian|author2=Gina Barkhordarian

|title=The Iranian Military Under the Islamic Republic|url=https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3473.html|publisher=RAND|isbn=0-8330-0777-7

|date=March 1987}}{{cite web|title=The Revolutionary Period|url=http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-6520.html|publisher=Country Data|access-date=20 June 2013}}{{cite web|title=National security|work=Pars Times|access-date=24 August 2013|url=http://www.parstimes.com/history/national_security.html}} He was instrumental in developing a cooperation between the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and army before and during the Iran Iraq war. He also fought in the war.{{cite news|author=John Kiefner|title=4 military chiefs in Iran are killed in a plane crash|access-date=20 June 2013

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/01/world/4-military-chiefs-in-iran-are-killed-in-a-plane-crash.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1 October 1981|location=Beirut}} He was appointed minister of defence and armed forces logistics to the interim government led by Prime Minister Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani on 2 September 1981.{{cite web|author=Mir M. Hosseini|work=Fouman

|title=Interim Government Formed|url=http://www.fouman.com/Y/Get_Iranian_History_Today.php?artid=1287|access-date=20 June 2013|archive-date=2 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202010136/http://fouman.com/Y/Get_Iranian_History_Today.php?artid=1287|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|author1=Mehrzad Boroujerdi|author2=Kourosh Rahimkhani|title=Postrevolutionary Iran. A Political Handbook|year=2018|publisher=Syracuse University Press|url=https://irandataportal.syr.edu/postrevolutionary-iran-a-political-handbook|page=128|location=Syracuse, NY|isbn=978-0815635741|access-date=29 August 2021|archive-date=21 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921151947/https://irandataportal.syr.edu/postrevolutionary-iran-a-political-handbook|url-status=dead}}

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Namjoo was killed in a plane crash together with 80 other people on 29 September 1981 near Tehran. The aircraft was a US-made C-130 Hercules transport plane.{{cite news|title=Crash kills Iranian military leaders

|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9IEsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qc0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6774,46379&dq=plane+crash+killed+defense+minister+of+iran&hl=en

|access-date=20 June 2013|newspaper=Herald Journal|date=1 October 1981|agency=AP|location=Beirut}}{{cite news|title=103 Reported Killed as Iranian Army Plane Crashes; Altimeter Suspected|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-11-04-mn-16161-story.html|access-date=20 June 2013|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=4 November 1984|location=Tehran}} Other leading military figures killed in the crash were Valiollah Fallahi, Javad Fakoori and Yousef Kolahdouz.{{cite news|title=Iranian military aircraft crashes|agency=UPI

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|access-date=20 June 2013|newspaper=Sarasota Journal|date=30 September 1981}}{{cite book|author=Sepehr Zabir|publisher=Routledge

|title=Iran Since the Revolution (RLE Iran A)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TQKiElHySdUC&pg=PA194|year=2011|isbn=978-0-415-61069-8

|page=194|location=London; New York}} They were returning to Tehran from southwestern battlefront with Iraq.{{cite news

|title=Crash kills four top Iranian officers|url=https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=de_October1981|access-date=7 August 2021|work=The Daily Egyptian|agency=AP|date=1 October 1981|location=Beirut|volume=66|issue=29}} On 1 October 1981, a funeral service was held for Namjoo and other victims at the military academy in Tehran.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini made a speech following the incident indicating the Mujahedeen Khalq as the perpetrator without clearly condemning the leftist group.

Namjoo's biography entitled A Man with Orange Color was published by Ezzatollah Alvandi in 2005.{{cite web|title=Biography of Martyr Namjoo|url=http://navideshahed.com/EN/index.php?Page=definitionnews&UID=66930|publisher=Shahed|access-date=27 June 2013|location=Tehran|date=16 September 2005}}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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