Mostafa Chamran Save'ei (Persian: مصطفی چمران ساوه‌ای) (2 October[citation needed] 1932 – 21 June 1981) was an Iranian physicist, politician, commander and guerrilla fighter who served as the first defense minister of post-revolutionary Iran and a member of parliament as well as the commander of paramilitary volunteers in Iran–Iraq War, known as "Irregular Warfare Headquarters".

[6] He studied at Alborz High School and then graduated from University of Tehran with a bachelor's degree in electromechanics.

[4][11] He was part of the radical external wing together with Ebrahim Yazdi, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh and Ali Shariati.

[14] In 1971 Chamran left the US for Lebanon[14] and joined the camps of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Amal movement.

During the civil war in Lebanon he actively cooperated with Musa Al Sadr, founder of the Amal movement.

[27] Chamran led an infantry unit during the Iran–Iraq War and received two wounds in his left leg by shrapnel from a mortar shell.

[9] Chamran was posthumously given a hero status, and many buildings and streets in Iran and Lebanon were named for him, as well as a major expressway.

[35][36] Nick Robinson published an English biography of Chamran in the United Kingdom in 2013, 22: Not a new lifestyle for those who thirst for humanity!.