Of the 16 Defense Ministers Since the Victory of the Revolution, the First 7 Have Died or Been Martyred / Mohammad Taghi Riahi and Ahmad Madani Died Abroad

KhabarOnline news agency, in a report, the fate of Iran's 16 defense ministers across fourteen governments, has examined. In part of this report, titled “Mehrdad Akhlaghi, without a military uniform, became the keeper of the keys of the Ministry of Defense / A review of the defense ministers of the Islamic Republic in past decades + table,” it states:

The ministers of this ministry have each had their own fate. Of its 16 ministers since the victory of the Revolution, the first 7 have died or been martyred. Before the appointment of Akhlaghi Katabchi, Akbar Torkan was the only civilian minister of this ministry, and Rear Admiral Shamkhani, with eight years as minister, held this post the longest. He too was martyred during the US and Israeli attack in the month of Esfand.

Among the former defense ministers, Mohammad Taghi Riahi, according to recorded information, had emigrated from Iran and died of a heart attack in August 1988 in Nice, France. Ahmad Madani also died in 2005 in the United States at the age of 76.

Mohammad Salimi, who during the Iran-Iraq war was in charge of Imam Khomeini's (RA) military advisory office and headed the Irregular Warfare Headquarters, served as defense minister in Mir-Hossein's first government in the years 1981-1985; he died in February 2016, after a long period of illness, at the age of 78. Akbar Torkan is another of the defense ministers who is no longer alive; he died in May 2021.