Mohammad-Sadeq Ahangaran

Mohammad-Sadeq Ahangari, known as Sadeq Ahangaran, was born in Ahvaz in 1957. His parents were from Dezful and had eight children, four sons and four daughters. Although during childhood he suffered from a stutter, yet he managed to complete primary education at Jafari School in Ahvaz. He used to go to Marashi Mosque with his father. His father had a warm and powerful voice and used to recite the supplications after prayers in the mosque. This atmosphere had a good effect on Sadeq Ahangaran as a child. He pursued higher education in Farhang and Shahpour high schools in Ahvaz and graduated from Khordad Niakan high School in Tehran. After obtaining his diploma, Mohammad-Sadeq Ahangaran was summoned for military service and went to Kurdistan as a member of the special unit of the army which was dedicated to the development of the villages. He served in the Wildlife Management Unit of Marivan for a year. At this time, he was arrested by SAVAK for having contacts with clerics who had been deported to Marivan. Therefore, he was deported for about a month to the country’s border area called Daleh Marz, near the city of Uramanat. In that village, he did not stop working and began teaching the Quran to the children of the village. Those days are marked as the peak of revolutionary activities in Iran. Therefore, after Imam Khomeini called for the soldiers to desert and join the revolutionary forces, Mohammad-Sadeq Ahangaran left the garrison and went to Ahvaz. Also, he lived secretly in Dezful for some months.

After the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, he continued his activities in the mosque in his neighbourhood where Hoseyn Alamolhoda’s father (a Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line who commanded a group of forces at the beginning of the war between Iraq and Iran and was martyred in Hoveyzeh in 1980 was the imam of the congregation prayer.

When the Islamic Revolution Committee was formed, he was one of the main members of the committee the head of which was Ali Shamkhani (Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy, and Minister of Defence). After the foundation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), Sadeq Ahangaran joined the IRGC. With the onset of the Iraq-Iran War, the forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Khuzestan were among the first to confront the invasion. He also participated in numerous operations in addition to teaching the IRGC forces and composing and reciting epic poems and Islamic eulogies for them. In fact, he was familiar with such activities since childhood. He recited his first eulogy in Jamaran Husayniyyah. This eulogy soon became popular among people thereby making him a figure whose voice and poems inspires Iranian forces in the war. The spirit of this eulogy lasted eight years in the war zone motivating and encouraging the forces to defend their country. The epic poems and eulogies recited by Sadeq Ahangaran are a common experience of all Iranian fighters who stood up against global aggression.

Sadeq Ahangaran is a graduate of Persian literature from Tehran University. He is the advisor to the IRGC commander-in-chief.