[3] In 1961, he was graduated from Italian Naval Academy,[2] where he was trained in mechanical engineering and shipbuilding.

[4] Then Iranian president Abolhassan Bani Sadr appointed him as the commander of the Navy in June 1980.

[5] He was also special adviser of then speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

[7] The trial carried out in the form of a military tribunal in December 1983, and 32 of them were sentenced to death.

[8] Their judge was Hojjat Al Islam Mohammad Reyshahri, who also interrogated Mahdi Hashemi in 1986.