Javad Fakoori

Javad Fakoori (; 5 February 1938 – 29 September 1981) was an Iranian military colonel who served as defense minister of Iran from September 1980 to August 1981.

Career Fakoori joined the Imperial Iranian Air Force in 1958 as a F-100 fighter pilot. He later led a squadron of F-4 aircraft. By 1978, he was promoted to colonel and stationed in Tehran as a staff officer.

After the Iranian Revolution, it was found out that one of Fakoori's cousins was a prominent member of the outlawed People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, and had sought asylum in Sweden. Regardless, then-president Abolhassan Banisadr appointed Fakoori as the minister of national defense in 1980, with the reported consent of Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini. He commanded the newly-formed Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force during the Iran–Iraq War.

Death

Fakoori, alongside senior military officials Valiollah Fallahi and Mousa Namjoo, was killed in an aviation crash near Tehran on 29 September 1981.

Fakoori was posthumously promoted to the rank of major general.