Mostafa Mohammad Najjar (Persian: مصطفى محمدنجّار‎, born 2 December 1956) is an Iranian politician and retired IRGC general. He was interior minister of Iran from 2009 to 2013[3] and minister of defense in the first cabinet of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 2005 to 2009.[4] He is also a veteran of the IRGC.[5]