Iranian Commanders Lets Get something straight here I will tell you who was really a commander on the Iranian Side Ayatollah Khomeini The Supreme leader controls the Army and the Pasdaran so Khomeini is without a doubt a commander Ayatollah Khamenei The president maintains some control over the army and while he reports to the Supreme Leader he still welds significant control over their day to day operations therefore Khamenei is Also a Commander Mostafa Chamran he was the Minister of Defense and a General under the Early stages of the war He was killed in Action late in 1981 So he would have been sincerely a comander Ali Sayad Shirazi Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces during the War no question about his classification as a Commander Mohsen Rezaee Commander of the Pasdaran Heavily involved in the fighting again no question Now here are people who should not be classified as commander Abdolhassan Banisadr President but He was impeached in the first days of the war so he never commandered anything during the War Mohammad Ali Rajai President only for less than three weeks after Banisadr so he never commandered anything Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Throught his career as a cleric during the War Rafsanjani never went into affairs regarding the military exception being the Iran Contra Affair and simply worked with business within the country Mir Hossein Mousavi The Prime Minister did not wield any power over the military he simply worked exclusively on affairs within the country So please don t change the commanders list this is all the proof you need