Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Iranian engineer
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Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
About Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam
- Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam (Persian: ??? ?????? ?????) (29 October 1959 – 12 November 2011) was an Iranian military officer in the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and designer of Iran's ballistic missile project.
- He was the chief of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
- He founded Iran's long-range missile program and sought the expertise and blueprint designs from North Korea in order to help develop Iran's missile technology.
- He designed the Shahab, Ghadr and Sejjil missiles with an operational range of more than 1,000–2,000 kilometres to target Israel.
- For these reasons he is regarded as the father of Iran's missile program.
- He was killed on 12 November 2011 in the Bid Kaneh explosion, at a military base belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps 25 miles west of Iran's capital, Tehran.
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