# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/esmail-ghaani
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:21:15.672Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/esmail-ghaani"
name: "Esmail Ghaani"
slug: "esmail-ghaani"
description: "Esmail Qaani is an Iranian brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who serves as the commander of the IRGC Quds Force, an elite special operations force responsible for extraterritorial operations. Qaani succeeded Qasem Soleimani as Quds Force commander after Soleimani was assassinated in January 2020."
tagline: "Iranian general in the Quds Force"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Esmail_Ghaani_in_january_2020_(3x4_cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1957-08-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.87
  momentum:             5.476091779940615
  historical:           21.45628133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14431614/"
    handle:    "nm14431614"
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    title: "Esmail Ghaani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ইসমাইল কানি"
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    title: "Իսմայիլ Քաանի"
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    title: "Esmail Qaani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esmail_Qaani"
    title: "Esmail Qaani"
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    title: "Esmail Qaani"
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    title: "Esmail Qaani"
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    title: "Esmail Qa'ani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump