Mahdi Zein-eddin

Mahdi Zein-eddin (1959 – 1984) was an Iranian major general who was killed in the Iran–Iraq War.

Early life
Mahdi Zein-eddin was born in 11 October 1959 in a religious family in Tehran Province. His father was politically active and always resisted the Pahlavi dynasty. His mother was a Quran teacher and religious woman.

Zein-eddin was influenced by Asadollah Madani, a member of the clergy who was killed in Mihrab. He opposed the regime of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. He was expelled from the high school for refusing to join the Rastakhiz Party. However, he continued his education, graduated from high school, and was accepted to Shiraz University. During the same period, his father was banished to Saghez so he gave up going to the university and continued his political activities more seriously. After a period of time, his father was banished to Fars Province once again. When the 1977 revolution started, his father went to Qom secretly and also moved his family to Qom city. Mahdi and his father and other political people continued their efforts in the revolution in Qom city. Mahdi was accepted to a university in France, but he decided not to go after hearing that Imam Khomeini was urging young people to stay in Iran.

After the Iranian Revolution
After the Iranian Revolution, Zein-eddin joined the Jahad Sazandegi and after the establishment of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (Sepah or AGIR) in Qom, he worked in its information section.

In the Iran-Iraq War, Zein-eddin worked with the Dezful and Susangerd AGIR and was the commander of the Ali-ibn-Abitaleb Division. He participated in the following operations:
 * Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas
 * Operation Ramadan
 * Moharam
 * Operation Dawn 3 and 4
 * Operation Kheibar

Death
Major General Mahdi Zein-eddin was killed on 18 November 1984 while moving from Bakhtaran to Sardasht, Khuzestan along with his brother on a reconnaissance mission.