Valiollah Fallahi

Fallahi served as commander ground forces.{{cite news|title=Iran's military closes its airspace over Qom|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=N8NDAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z68MAAAAIBAJ&pg=1895,4604542&dq=general+valiollah+fallahi&hl=en|access-date=24 August 2013|newspaper=The Altus Times Democrat|date=27 November 1979}} Until June 1980 he was the deputy commander of joint staff.{{cite news|title=Iran-Iraq cease-fire proposed|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GGQuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CtoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2553,603032&dq=general+valiollah+fallahi&hl=en|access-date=24 August 2013|newspaper=Beaver County Times|date=2 March 1981}} He was appointed by Abolhassan Bani Sadr as joint chief of staff in June 1980.{{cite book|author=Dilip Hiro|title=Iran Under the Ayatollahs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P8QwrtpxdMQC&pg=PA156|access-date=24 August 2013|date=4 July 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-04381-0|pages=156}}{{cite news|last=Godsell|first=Geoffrey|title=Can Bani-Sadr fight back?|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/1981/0622/062239.html|access-date=24 August 2013|newspaper=The CS Monitor|date=22 June 1981}}

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On 29 September 1981, he died along with several other top commanders, including General Javad Fakouri (Air Force Commander), General Yousef Kolahdouz (Acting Commander of the Revolutionary Guards), Colonel Sayyid Mousa Namjoo (Defence Minister) and Commander Jahanara in a plane crash that was due to land in Tehran after take off from Ahvaz.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/country-by-country/iran.htm|title=Chronological Listing of Iranian Losses|access-date=20 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725050428/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/Country-By-Country/Iran.htm |archive-date=25 July 2013|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|author=Sepehr Zabir|title=Iran Since the Revolution (RLE Iran A)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TQKiElHySdUC&pg=PA194|date=25 February 2011|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-61069-8|pages=194}}

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini made a speech following the incident and made a reference to Mujahedeen Khalq as the perpetrator without clearly condemning the leftist group.{{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}}

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