Iran's new defense minister Mehrdad Ketabchi cautions US

Iran's caller Minister of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics, Mehrdad Akhlaghi Ketabchi, warned the United States on Sunday after his confirmation by the parliament.

"If their slogans crook into action, you’ll spot the result," Ketabchi said successful effect to threats of renewed bombing. "There volition beryllium monolithic harm to some them and the region."

Ketabchi secured 237 votes successful favour and 15 against successful a virtual league attended by 277 lawmakers. He replaces Aziz Nasirzadeh, who was killed connected February 28, the archetypal time of associated US-Israeli strikes.

President Masoud Pezeshkian said "the decisive vote" sent a large connection to the world, noting that parliament's alignment with the authorities showed unity and resolute enactment for the military.

Ketabchi, a seasoned Defense Ministry authoritative who helped make Iran’s rocket industry, antecedently headed the Shahid Bagheri Industrial Group and aboriginal the Aerospace Industries Organization.

The assignment of the 68-year-old defence technologist and rocket manufacture specializer signals Tehran's absorption connected rebuilding and expanding the country’s defense-industrial capabilities aft 2 wars.

Ketabchi is taxable to planetary sanctions by the United States, the United Kingdom, the United Nations, and the European Union, owed to his links to Iran's arms-related activities and ballistic rocket program.

On Sunday, Iran's National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei said "the ramblings and repeated threats from American and Zioni...