Hamid Vahedi

Hamid Vahedi is a Brigadier General of the Islamic [Republic of Iran Army], a Sukhoi-24 pilot, who had been the Commander of the Air Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army from 19 September 2021 to 17 December 2025.

Biography

Vahedi was born in Farvardin 1965 in Rafsanjan, Kerman Province. He began his career in the Air Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1984, and after completing a preparatory course at the Shahid Khazraei Air Training Command, he graduated from the Nahaja Pilot School in 1988 and officially began his career as a fighter pilot in Nahaja. He completed the Su-24 fighter jet simulator course in Russia in 1990 and 2000. In 2008, he also completed the Command and Staff School course in the defence affairs management field.
He was the Deputy Commander of the Army Air Force from 15 September 2018 to 17 September 2019.
He joined the Islamic Republic of Iran Army in 1984, and after graduating from the Nahaja Pilot School, he began his career as a fighter pilot in the Army Air Force in 1988. Vahedi served as the Commander of the Second Fighter Base in Tabriz from 1993 to 1997, and as the Deputy Inspector General of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army from 1997 to 1998.