وكالة أنباء فارس
According to the biography published by the semi-official Fars News Agency, Naqdi was born in March 1961 in a middle-class religious family in Shapour neighbourhood of Tehran. Aging 16, he enrolled in University of Guilan in 1977 and co-founded its "Anjoman-e Eslami". He helped founding Jihad of Construction in June 1979, before joining Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Unit.