Mohammad Hossein-Zadeh Hejazi (Persian: سید محمد حسینزاده حجازی, 20 January 1956 – 18 April 2021) was an Iranian military commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
[3] He was a former commander of Basij, the auxiliary Iranian paramilitary branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
[4] On January 20, 2020, he became the Deputy Commander of the Quds Force, by decree of the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.
It is alleged by the American Jewish Committee that Hejazi, while serving as an advisor to Khamanei, attended a meeting in August 1993 to plan the AMIA bombing in Argentina along with Khamanei, Rafsanjani, then president, Ali Fallahian, then intelligence minister, and Ali Akbar Velayati, then foreign minister.
[6] Similarly, the European Union also sanctioned him in October 2011 for playing a "central role in the post-election crackdown.