Iran appoints ex-IRGC commander to top security position

Iran has confirmed Mohsen Rezaee, a erstwhile commandant of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, arsenic the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council.

President Masoud Pezeshkian appointed Rezaee to the relation connected Sunday, portion Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei named him arsenic his idiosyncratic typical to the council.

Rezaee, 71, led the IRGC from 1981 to 1997 and is simply a subordinate of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council, an assembly created upon the revision to the Constitution connected February 6, 1988.

The Ayatollah besides appointed Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr arsenic his governmental advisor. He has held respective elder positions crossed the IRGC, including being lawman main from 1997 until 2006.

Rezaee succeeds Zolghadr, 72, who was Secretary of Iran’s Security Council from March to August 2026 and Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council from 2021 to 2026.

Over the weekend, Pezeshkian condemned the targeting of galore instrumentality enforcement officers successful airstrikes, saying the enactment was aimed astatine causing chaos passim Iran.

“They hoped this would trigger taste tensions, yet starring to the state being torn apart,” the President noted. “All of their plans were wholly foiled.”

He, however, said Iran’s connection with determination countries—including Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan—is improving, compared to the...