Farajollah Rasaei

Template:Template other Admiral Farajollah Rasai (Template:Langx, 1908 – 2 December 2002) was an Iranian naval officer and politician who served as the Commander of the Iranian Navy from 1961 to 1972.

Rasai joined the Navy in 1929 and was trained at Naval Academy of Livorno. Under his command, the Iranian Navy took control over the Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs islands 30 November 1971 from the Emirate of Sharjah. After he retired in 1972, he was an Iranian Senator until the Iranian Revolution when he fled Iran and lived in the United States until his death in 2002.

Dates of rank

Ensign	Sub-Lieutenant	Lieutenant	Lieutenant Commander	Commander
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December 22, 1932	March 21, 1936	March 21, 1940	March 21, 1944	March 21, 1947

Captain	Commodore Admiral	Rear admiral	Vice admiral	Admiral
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March 21, 1949	September 1954	September 1960	September 1963	June 1971

Decorations and awards

Template:Ribbon devices/alt	Order of Marksmanship (1968)
Template:Ribbon devices/alt	Order of the Coronation (1968)
Template:Ribbon devices/alt	Hilal-e-Quaid-i-Azam (1967)
Template:Ribbon devices/alt	Order of the Crown, 2nd Class (1966)
Template:Ribbon devices/alt	Légion d'honneur, Grand officier (1964)
Template:Ribbon devices/alt	Order of Homayoun, 2nd Class (1963)
Template:Ribbon devices/alt	Order of Service, 1st Class (1961)
Template:Ribbon devices/alt	Order of Resurgence, 2nd Class (1953)
Template:Ribbon devices/alt	Order of Paas, 3rd Class (1952)
Template:Ribbon devices/alt	Order of Honor, 2nd Class (1951)
Template:Ribbon devices/alt	Order of Service, 2nd Class (1960)
Template:Ribbon devices/alt	Order of Honor, 3rd Class (1945)
Template:Ribbon devices/alt	Order of Merit, 2nd Class (1945)
Template:Ribbon devices/alt	Order of Sepah, 3rd Class (1941)
Template:Ribbon devices/alt	Order of Merit, 3rd Class (1939)