Qasem-Ali Zahir Nejad Persian: قاسمعلی زاهرنژاد (1924 – 13 October 1999) was a major general in the Army of Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Zahirnejad began studies in the Military University (Imam Ali) in 1951. He retired from the army in 1976 as a colonel. After the 1979 revolution he returned to the army at the beginning of the unrest in Kurdistan and in 1979 as commander of Division 64 of Urmia. In 1980 he was promoted to brigadier general to command the Iranian Gendarmerie and Army. On 9 October 1981 was promoted to the position of President of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.