Jalil Zandi (Persian: جلیل زندی; 1951–2001) was a fighter pilot in the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) who served during all of the Iran–Iraq War.

Jalil Zandi began in the Imperial Iranian Air Force and after the 1979 Islamic revolution stayed on to serve in the IRIAF when it was somewhat dangerous for pilots to continue their military service.

[2] Abbas Babaei was "notorious for his merciless treatment of the pilots and officers" considered disloyal to the new regime[4] and because of this, Jalil Zandi was condemned to ten years of imprisonment.

[9] His last official post was deputy for planning and organization of the Iranian Air Force.

He died with his wife Zahra Moheb Shahedin in 2001 in a car accident near Tehran.