Javad Fakoori (; 5 February 1938 â 29 September 1981) was an Iranian military colonel who served as defense minister of Iran from September 1980 to August 1981.
Fakoori joined the Imperial Iranian Air Force in 1958 as a F-100 fighter pilot. He later led a squadron of F-4 aircraft. By 1978, he was promoted to colonel and stationed in Tehran as a staff officer.
After the Iranian Revolution, it was found out that one of Fakoori's cousins was a prominent member of the outlawed People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, and had sought asylum in Sweden. Regardless, then-president Abolhassan Banisadr appointed Fakoori as the minister of national defense in 1980, with the reported consent of Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini. He commanded the newly-formed Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force during the IranâÂÂIraq War.
Fakoori, alongside senior military officials Valiollah Fallahi and Mousa Namjoo, was killed in a aviation crash near Tehran on 29 September 1981. Khomeini made a speech following the incident, in which he implied the People's Mojahedin Organization to be the perpetrators.
Fakoori was posthumously promoted to the rank of major general.