Valiollah Fallahi

Deputy Command of the Shiraz Infantry Center

The presence of Valiollah Fallahi in Shiraz coincided with the peak of public protests against the Pahlavi regime; consequently, martial law had been declared in most Iranian cities, including Shiraz. Due to Fallahi's efforts, martial law in Shiraz was lifted, army troops were withdrawn from the streets, and the responsibility for maintaining public order was handed over to the Shahrbani.

Command of the Army Ground Forces

Fallahi served as commander ground forces Following the victory of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. by June 1980 he was the deputy commander of joint staff. He was appointed by Abolhassan Banisadr as joint chief of staff in June 1980.

Chief of the Joint Staff

Holding the rank of Brigadier General, Valiollah Fallahi was appointed Chief of the Joint Staff of the Army on 19 June 1980, succeeding Major General Shadmehr.

Initially, in the summer of 1980, the Nojeh coup plot emerged within the Air Force and Ground Forces. Alongside countering and suppressing the coup, a widespread purge and clearance of the coup elements were carried out.

With the outbreak of the Iran–Iraq War, due to a lack of combat and operational readiness in the degraded Army units and the chaotic domestic political environment, a major portion of the forces' combat capability had to be expended simply to stall the Iraqi military and halt its advance in the western part of the country and Khuzestan. However, this strategy—which can be summarized as "fighting calmly and deliberately based on military science"—did not sit well with many revolutionaries of that era. Consequently, young revolutionaries accused Fallahi of inaction and a lack of expertise.