General Mehdi Rahimi born in 1921 in Tehran. He served as deputy commander of the Imperial Guard, Tehran police chief as well as the president of the Wrestling Federation of Iran. He was a lieutenant general and the last military commander and the chief of police of Tehran during the final days of the Pahlavi Dynasty.
He arrested by revolutionaries shortly after the Islamic Revolution in February 1979. He and three other high-profile generals of the former regime were executed by a firing squad on rooftop of the Refah School at midnight just before 16 February 1979.
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