Farajollah Rasaei


Admiral Farajollah Rasai was an Iranian naval officer and politician who served as the Commander of the Iranian Navy from 1961 to 1972.
Rasai joined the Navy in 1929 and was trained at Naval Academy of Livorno. Under his command, the Iranian Navy took control over the Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs islands 30 November 1971 from the Emirate of Sharjah. After he retired in 1972, he was an Iranian Senator until the Iranian Revolution when he fled Iran and lived in the United States until his death in 2002.

Dates of rank

CaptainCommodore AdmiralRear admiralVice admiralAdmiral
March 21, 1949September 1954September 1960September 1963June 1971