Ismail Riahi (1907–2000) was an Iranian military officer, who also served as minister of agriculture. Part of one of the most famous Chaleshtar families, his elder brother, Colonel Dr. Mohammad Riahi, was the president of the University of Isfahan , who devoted all his personal land to the expansion of the university. His other brother was Ibrahim, the Minister of Health in the second Pahlavi era . Ismail went through the military step by step and in 1960 he became a lieutenant general in the army and then deputy chief of staff of the army.