Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr Age, Wife Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr

• Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr was born and raised in Fasa, near Shiraz, Iran.

• He completed his higher education in the University of Tehran, where he completed his bachelor degree in economics.

• In 1978, during his university days, he was involved in killing of an American engineer and an oil company manager.

• During that time, he was also associated with an Islamist militant organization, Mansourun guerrilla.

• In 1979, Mohammad Bagher joined Islamic Revolution.

• Before the Islamic Revolution, he was active in carrying out attacks against Iran’s monarchy.

• After Islamic Revolution, he joined the Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization.

• In the early 1980s, Mohammad co-headed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) educational division.

• Later, he served as the commander of IRGC Irregular Warfare Headquarters, as well as Ramazan Headquarters.

• In 1990, Mohammad served a co-founder of a conservative paramilitary organization, Ansar-e Hezbollah.

• In 2005, he was named deputy interior minister for security and police under the former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

• In 2007, Zolghadr was appointed as the deputy chief of general staff of Iranian Armed Forces for Basij-related affairs.

• In 2010, he served as the advisor to the Chief Justice Sadeq Larijani.

• In 2012, Bagher Zolghadr was appointed as the deputy Judiciary chief for strategic affairs.

• Since 2023, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr has been serving as the secretary of the Expediency Council, a powerful advisory body of Iran that works between Iran’s various power centers and the supreme leader.

• In March 2026, after the assassination of Iran’s former secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Ardashir Larijani, in Iran-US war, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr was appointed as the new secretary of the Supreme National Security Council.

• Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr’s wife, Sedigheh Begum Hejazi is also a politician, who has served as Director-General of the Office of Women and Family Affairs at the Organization of Islamic Culture and Communication. Additionally, his son-in-law, Kazem Gharibabadi, is an Iranian diplomat. He has represented Iran in Vienna at various international organizations, including the International Atomic Energy Agency.