{{Short description|Iranian airforce general}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Timsar | name = Shapour Azarbarzin | image = | birth_name = Abdollah Azarbarzin | birth_date = March 1930 | birth_place = Khorram Abad, Persia | death_date = November 2015 | death_place = California, United States | resting_place = | allegiance = Iran | branch = Air Force | service_years = | rank = Lieutenant general<ref name="r"/> | unit = | commands = | battles = | awards = | other_work = }} '''Shapour Azarbarzin''' ({{langx|fa|شاپور آذربرزین}}) was an Iranian fighter pilot.
The deputy commander to Amir Hossein Rabii before the Iranian Revolution, he was appointed as the commander of Air Force in {{circa}} 20 February 1979, and served in the capacity until the first week of March.<ref name="r">{{citation|author=Nikola B. Schahgaldian, Gina Barkhordarian|title=The Iranian Military Under the Islamic Republic|url=https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reports/2007/R3473.pdf|publisher=RAND|isbn=0-8330-0777-7|date=March 1987|access-date=15 January 2017|page=111}}</ref> In April 1979, Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan offered him to hold office as the defense minister, however he refused it.<ref name="r"/> Shortly after, he was briefly imprisoned by the revolutionary forces but was released after efforts made by Bazargan and left Iran in late November 1980.<ref name="r"/> ==References== {{Reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=Saeid Mahdioun}} {{s-ttl|title=Commander of the Iranian Air Force|years=1979}} {{s-aft|after=Asghar Imanian}} {{s-end}} {{NAHAJA Commanders}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Azarbarzin, Shapour}} Category:Commanders of Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force Category:2015 deaths Category:1930 births
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