Iranian Red Crescent Society

IRCS has 30 governorate headquarters, one in each province of Iran, and 330 branches throughout the country, as of 2005. SOHA, a manufacturer of disposable medical devices is also owned by the society, as well as Shahrvand, a daily newspaper. The Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal, an English language peer-reviewed journal on clinical and scientific medicine, is another publication of IRCS. ==Presidents ==

Heads of the society have been: • 1922–1949: Amir Amir-A'lam (deputy director) • 1922–1925: Mohammad Hassan Mirza (honorary) • 1927–1931: Mostowfi ol-Mamalek (chairman) • 1931–1941: Reza Pahlavi (symbolic) • 1941–1949: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi • 1949–1979: Hossein Khatibi Nouri (managing director) • 1949–1979: Shams Pahlavi (chairwoman) • 1979–1980: Kazem Sami • 1980–1981: Ali Behzadnia • 1981–1983: Hassan Firouzabadi • 1983–1999: Seifollah Vahid Dastjerdi • 1999–2006: Ahmad-Ali Nourbala • 2006–2010: Masoud Khatami • 2010–2013: Abolhassan Faqih • 2013–2014: Mohammad Farhadi • 2014–2017: Amir-Mohsen Ziayi • 2017–2019: Ali Asqar Peyvandi • 2020–2021: Karim Hemmati • 2021–present: Pirhossein Kolivand ==References==