Order of Fath
Award
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The Fath Medal (Persian: نشان فتح, lit. 'Conquer Medal') is a military award of the Iranian armed forces which is awarded by the commander-in-chief, the Supreme Leader of Iran.
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Iran| Fath Medal | |
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| Type | Decoration |
| Country | Iran |
| Presented by | Commander-in-chief Supreme Leader of Iran |
| Status | Currently awarded |
| First award | 27 September 1989 |
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| Precedence | |
| Equivalent | Fath grade 1 Fath grade 2 Fath grade 3 |
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History and description
First awarded on 27 September 1989,[1] the medal shows three Palm leaves over Khorramshahr's grand mosque (as a symbol of resistance), the flag of Iran, and the word "Fath".[1][2] It is a military award of the Iranian armed forces and is awarded by the commander-in-chief, the Supreme Leader of Iran.[1]
As of 2008[update], the medal was awarded in three grades. Senior commanders are typically awarded a first class medal, colonels and brigadiers usually receive a second class award, while third class awards are granted to those ranked at or below lieutenant colonel.[3]
Recipients
First recipients (1989)
The first Order of Fath medals were conferred on 27 September 1989, after the Iran–Iraq War, with three recipients of the award at First Class level.[4]
- The first recipient of the Order of Fath was Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh.[4] Fahmideh's award was posthumous, as he was killed in November 1980 when, as a 13-year-old boy, he was fighting in the Iran–Iraq War. He disabled an Iraqi tank by jumping under it while wearing a belt of grenades from which he had removed the pins.[5][6] In so doing, Fahmideh halted the advance of a line of tanks.[7]: 57 [6][8][9] Khomeini declared Fahmideh a national hero, stating that the "value of [Fahmideh's] little heart is greater than could be described by hundreds of tongues and hundreds of pens"[6][10] and also calling him "our guide" who "threw himself under the enemy's tank with a grenade and destroyed it, thus drinking the elixir of matyrdom."[6] Khomeini's government went on to provide a knapsack to every school child in Iran that showed "Fahmideh's heroic sacrifice under the tank and the grenades he used to blow himself up,"[8] and to include Fahmideh's story alongside that of other "martyrs" in textbooks intended to improve childhood literacy.[11]
- Mohsen Rezaee, commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps[4]
- Ali Sayad Shirazi, commander of Islamic Republic of Iran Army[4]
Alongside them, 21 people received 2nd class medal and 29 people received the 3rd class medal.[1][4]
1990
On 4 February 1990, a total of 210 men received the medal. The recipients included:
Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force
- Abbas Babaei (KIA, 2nd grade)[1]
- Jalil Zandi (2nd grade)[1]
- Mansour Sattari (2nd grade)[1]
- Mohammad Daneshpour (2nd Grade)[1]
- Massoud Monfared Niyaki (KIA, 2nd grade)[1]
- Mostafa Ardestani (KIA, 2nd grade)[1]
Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution
- Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat (KIA, 2nd grade)[1]
- Mehdi Bakeri (KIA, 2nd grade)[1]
- Hossein Kharrazi (KIA, 2nd grade)[1]
- Yahya Rahim Safavi (2nd grade)[1]
- Mohammad Ali Jafari (3rd grade)[1]
- Qasem Soleimani (3rd grade)[1]
- Ahmad Kazemi (3rd grade)[1]
Both
- Ali Shamkhani (2nd grade)[1]
2014
- Mohammad Pakpour, Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces[citation needed]
2016
- Ali Fadavi, deputy commander of Iranian Revolutionary Guards, 1st grade[4]
2018
- Habibollah Sayyari, former commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy[citation needed]
2021
- Kioumars Heydari, commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces[citation needed]
2024
- Abdolrahim Mousavi, Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army[2]
- Hossein Salami, Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps[2]
- Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the IRGC Aerospace Forces[citation needed]
Unknown date
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1st grade)[12]
- Hassan Rouhani (2nd grade)[12][13]
