Ali-Reza Asgari

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ali-Reza Asgari
Occupation	Army General
Date Of Birth	Jan 10, 1961(1961-01-10)
Age	63
Birthplace	Rey County
Country	Iran
Horoscope	Capricorn

Ali-Reza Asgari Biography

Ali-Reza Asgari is one of the most popular and richest Army General who was born on January 10, 1961 in Rey County, Iran. Ali Reza Asgari was conceived in Ardestan (a town in Esfahan, Iran) on the 1st of November 1952.

According to The Sunday Times Asgari was recruited in 2003 as a spy during a business trip. However, it is unknown what Western intelligence agency recruited Asgari. After being suspected by the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence of being a mole, he decided to defect.

Asgari had been “pushed aside” from his ministerial role after President Ahmadinejad, a former rival, came into power in 2005. Asgari disappeared in Turkey in early 2007, and news reports indicate that he either defected or was kidnapped by Western intelligence agencies. His disappearance has also led to reports that Iran would retaliate by kidnapping American or Israeli officials in Europe. According to The Sunday Times, Asgari was described as a “gold mine for western intelligence” by an Israeli defence source who claimed that they had been following him since the 1980s.

In December 2007 when the US intelligence community released the findings of an NIE stating that Iran had stopped its secret nuclear weapons program in 2003 (as opposed to the 2005 NIE which said they were continuing), some observers suspected that Asgari played some role in providing intelligence or prompting the reassessment; however, current officials have said that there was no single thing which prompted the reversal, though another source cited current diplomatic and security officials as saying that a defector was likely to be the cause of the new information.

Ebrahimi told Newsmax that he had known Asgari since the mid-1990s, when he worked at Iran’s Embassy in Beirut. Asgari, who was visiting Syria in 2007, called Ebrahimi in Germany to inform him that his special passport had run out of time and that he didn’t want to return to Iran. Ebrahimi advised that Asgari rent a car and leave his wife in Damascus in order to drive to Turkey. He then paid US$1500 for a Turkish border guard to allow him to enter the country without a visa. Ebrahimi’s contacts were reported to have met him in the Gilan hotel rooms, but there was a police presence outside.

Ali-Reza Asgari Net Worth

Ali-Reza Asgari is one of the richest Army General from Iran. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ali-Reza Asgari 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ali-Reza Asgari (Persian pronunciation: lyrDsgry, born 1/11/2002) was an Iranian general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. He was also deputy defense minister and cabinet member to President Mohammad Khatami.

The Washington Post reported that Asgari was willing to cooperate with Western intelligence officers and was giving information about Hezbollah’s Iranian connections. This included information about the Beirut barracks bombing of 1983. Asgari also smuggled intelligence documents and maps detailing Iranian involvement in Muslim militia groups. These included Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, as well as Hezbollah and the Badr Organization and the Iraqi Mahdi army. Although a US intelligence official claimed that Asgari’s defection was orchestrated by Israel, Mark Regev, an Israeli spokesperson denied it. The New York Post reported on the fact that an Iranian dissident group planned the escape and is now negotiating with Western intelligence agencies to obtain a permanent place of exile.

According to The Sunday Telegraph, Asgari’s defection was part of a CIA program called “the Brain Drain”, which began in 2005 and later netted Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri.

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In the 1980s Asgari was commander of the Revolutionary Guard in Lebanon and during the 1990s he was the top Iranian intelligence official in Lebanon, where he worked with the Shia militant group Hezbollah. One report said that during this time Asgari was involved in the alleged transfer of captured Israeli pilot Ron Arad to Iran. The Israeli website Debkafile claims that Asgari ran Iranian operations in Iraq, and is linked to the January 20, 2007 Karbala provincial headquarters raid.

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Ali-Reza Ranked on the list of most popular Army General. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Iran. Ali-Reza Asgari celebrates birthday on January 10 of every year.

On November 15, 2009, several Iranian websites reported details of a two-year Iranian investigation into the matter, which concluded that Asgari was kidnapped by the Israeli, British, and German intelligence agencies, and was currently being held in an Israeli jail. Earlier in October, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki had said that “The United States should be accountable as it is directly or indirectly responsible for causing problems for Shahram Amiri, Ali Reza Asgari and Ardebili”.