Mohammad Jahanara

Mohammad Ali Jahan Ara (Persian:محمد علی جهان آرا‎‎) also known as Mohammad Jahanara (Persian:محمد جهان آرا‎‎) was an Iranian commander of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution and one of the main commanders in Battle of Khorramshahr in the Iran-Iraq War. He is a war hero and an icon of Iran-Iraq war. He also was one of the major commanders who fought against Arab separatists in 1979 Khuzestan uprising. Jahanara's commanded Revolutionary Guards and Iranian Navy Commandos (Takavaran) defended Iranian port city of Khorramshahr but after weeks of street fighting the city captured by Iraqis. He is considered by Iranians as the symbol of Iranian resistance (Persian: نماد ایستادگی ایران). He and other commanders of Iran-Iraq war such as Valiollah Fallahi, Yousef Kolahdouz, Javad Fakouri, and Mousa Namjoo were killed in a plane incident when the Iranian Air Force Lockheed C-130 crashed, in the city of Kahrizak near Tehran.