Amir Ali Hajizadeh is the commander of the forces Revolutionary Guards aerospace fighters. Analysts see him as one of the masterminds of the attack launched by Iran against Israel.
He joined the Revolutionary Guards as a sharpshooter in his early twenties and participated in the war with Iraq. His career grows hand in hand with the development of the Iranian missile program, an obstacle course, which began with the acquisition of weapons from other countries, such as Libya and Syria, and then proceeded in the direction of domestic production, often affected by accidents or sabotage attributed to Israel. A few days after that American raid, one of his units shot down the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 shortly after it took off from Tehran, killing 176 people. "We can hit American warships within a radius of 2,000 km and we have maintained this radius out of respect for Europe, hoping that it will avoid disrespect towards us", declared the commander a year ago, promising to want to kill the former president of the United States.