The Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters () is the operational headquarters of both of Iran's regular and religious armed forces, the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. It coordinates operations for the Armed Forces General Staff. It is tasked with planning and coordinating joint military operations within the Iranian forces..The official spokesperson for Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters is Ebrahim Zolfaghari
In 2016, the KCHQ was separated from the General Staff as a standing independent command responsible for operational command and control (C2); previously, the KCHQ would only be stood up in wartime.
In April 2024, both the KCHQ and by then-commander Major General Gholam Ali Rashid were sanctioned by the United Kingdom and Canada in response to Operation True Promise, the Iranian missile attack against Israel on 13 April, which Iran said was in retaliation to the Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus on 1 April.
On 13 June 2025, during the Twelve-Day War, Rashid was killed in an Israeli airstrike. He was succeeded by Brigadier General Ali Shadmani. Four days later, Shadmani was also killed in an Israeli airstrike. On 7 March 2026, during the 2026 Iran war, its chief of staff, Abu al Qasem Babaiyan, who also was the military secretary of Iran's supreme leader was assassinated by Israel.