General Abbas Gharabaghi was the last Chief of the Supreme Commander's Staff of the Iranian armed forces during the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty. Appointed on 7 January 1979, his role was to support the Shah

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, Shah of Persia , ruled Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow by the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979...

 until the Shah fled, and then to support the civilian government the Shah left behind during the Iranian Revolution

Iranian Revolution

The Iranian Revolution refers to events involving the overthrow of Iran's monarchy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and its replacement with an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the...

. However, after much bloodshed on the streets of Tehran and elsewhere, on 11 February 1979 Gharabaghi, along with 22 other senior military leaders, withdrew support of Prime Minister Bakhtiar

Shapour Bakhtiar

Shapour Bakhtiar was an Iranian political scientist, writer and the last Prime Minister of Iran under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi...

, and instead agreed to support the revolutionary Islamic republic.

Abbas Gharabaghi published his account of the revolution in Che Shod Ke Chonan Shod? ("Why did it happen?"), 1999.

He died in Paris in 2000.