Ministry of Revolutionary Guards
# Ministry of Revolutionary Guards

Ministry of Guards (Persian: وزارت سپاه, romanized: Vezārat-e Sepāh) was a government ministry in Iran between 1982 and 1989, which mainly acted as a ministry of defence dedicated to logistically supply the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. By having its own ministry, the Corps were able to acquire a powerful voice in the cabinet of Iran. It also implied greater regulation and supervision over the Corps by placing its acquisitions and purchases under and the audit and purview of the government.

It mirrored the existing parallel Ministry of National Defence (the word "National" was dropped in 1984) which solely supported and addressed the administrative affairs of the Iranian Army (Artesh) during these years. In 1989, it was dissolved and reintegrated into the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL), in order to centralize military logistics among the Iranian Armed Forces.

## Ministers

| No. | Minister | Took office | Left office | Time in office |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Rafighdoost, MohsenMohsen Rafighdoost (born 1940) | November 1982 | 13 September 1988 | 5 years, 317 days |
| – | Pakravaan, MahmoudMahmoud Pakravaan Acting | 13 September 1988 | 20 September 1988 | 7 days |
| 2 | Shamkhani, AliAli Shamkhani (born 1955) | 20 September 1988 | 21 August 1989 | 335 days |
