Imran Zakheav

"*Our so-called leaders prostituted us to the West... destroyed our culture... our economies... our honor. Our blood has been spilled on our soil. My blood... on their hands. They are the invaders. All U.S. and British forces will leave Russia immediately... or suffer the consequences.*"
— Zakheav's speech in the cut scene of Ultimatum.
**Imran Zakheav** is a main character featured in *Call of Duty: All Out War 2*, serving as the main antagonist. Zakheav is the mentor of the late Vladimir Makarov, a former partner in crime to Chang Wei and the PLA, the father of Victor Zakheav, and the leader of the Inner Circle.

## Biography

### Early Life

Zakhaev was born to an unknown father and mother during the reign of the Soviet Union. He believed in the Soviet Union's ideals and goals. This belief is what would drive him in his goals in his later years.

Sometime either in 1971 or 1972, he had a son whom he named Victor Zakhaev. Zakhaev loved his son, and he made him field commander of the Inner Circle when he got older.

In 1996, fifteen years before the Second Russian Civil War, Zakhaev witnessed the collapse of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union as an opportunity to salvage the radioactive fuel rods from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine and sell the precious uranium as nuclear material on the black market. Through the profits that he gained from these dealings, Zakhaev planned to fund his own extremist military faction that would regain control of Russia and restore its Soviet-era regime.

Imran even mentored Vladimir Makarov and after Makarov's death in 2021, Imran revealed himself as the leader of Inner Circle. He soon became allies with PLA leader Chang Wei and formed an alliance with his military. In addition, he sent agents all over the globe, such as General Ghobonoch, to take control over high-value areas.

### Dismantling The Russia Goverment

Following the death of Ghobonoch, Imran Zakheav, with help from the RGF and Inner Circle, took over Russia in a coup, overthrowing the current goverment. This caused Imran Zakheav to be a high value target to the west. From there, Imran assumed control over the region with plans to further invade neighbouring countries so he could recreate the Soviet Union and restore glory to Russia. While his son, Victor, was commanding an outpost, a Shadow Company strike team and SAS forces moved in and captured him. Imran learned of this and sent a multitide of troops to rescue Victor, but the team is able to escape. Victor is able to escape however, and reunites with Imran in Pripyat.

### Arms Deal

A day later, SAS forces infiltrate Pripyat, which has been taken by russian forces, to assassinate Chang Wei while he does an arms deal with Imran Zakheav. As Wei and the Zakheavs do the deal, Victor soon realizes that one of the RGF agents present was actually an undercover FSB agent, Kamarov or Nikolai. Imran turns his gun on them and kills them, and John MacTavish takes the shot on Wei from the nearby rooftop. Wei, and the Zakheavs are escorted out while the SAS are extracted.

### Moving Cargo

In an attempt to attack the USA, Imran and Wei try and move sizable cargo shipments via boat from Singapore Harbor. Their attempts are a failure as an SAS team consisting of Simon "Ghost" Riley and Michael "Toad" Rogers stops it. Afterwards, Imran begins gathering nuclear bombs to launch a full-scale attack on USA while Chang's operations are stopped and he goes into hiding off the grid. Their business relationship falters as Chang is mad about Imrans inability to give him military arms, and the PLA and Inner Circle disconnect.

### Death

Following the imprisonment and death of his son Victor, Imran moves his troops to a nuclear power station in the Altai Mountains, sino-russian border to launch a nuke towards the USA for revenge. SAS forces learn of this and following an operation to stop Shadow Company they attack his base with help from MARSOC Marines. After stopping the nuke, the joint-force attacks him at the border as he tries to escape to China. He fails to escape and holds out at a RGF compound, and as the SAS and MARSOC breach teh room he's in, he blows up the door before they can do so, and ambushes them. He kills all the MARSOC and wounds John Price as well as Gary "Roach" Sanderson, but Ghost and Soap pursue him with the help of Ozone and Miller. Zakheav can kill them in the chase. After Zakheav finally reaches a dead end in the complex, he starts to fight Ghost and Soap in hand-to-hand combat. He manages to separate them before throwing Ghost off the balcony, and tries to stab Soap. Soap is able to fight back long enough for Ghost to climb back up and help Soap, who promptly shoots Zakheav in the chest. Imran remarks that he isn't gonna be the last one they go after, and that "Chang is still in the wild". He bleeds out after and because of the nature of his death he is hailed as a "Hero of New Russia".