section_path: Early life and education
section_name: Early life and education
paragraph_text: Early life and education
  
  Hossein Salami was born in 1960 in Golpayegan, Isfahan province, then part of the Imperial State of Iran.
  
  In 1978, he was accepted to the mechanical engineering department at the Iran University of Science and Technology. When the Iran–Iraq War started, he joined the IRGC. After the war ended, he returned to his college studies and graduated with a master's degree in defense management.