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Mohsen Rezaei named Iran security chief as Pezeshkian meets supreme leader
Mohsen Rezaei named Iran security chief as Pezeshkian meets supreme leader
Iran has appointed former Revolutionary Guards commander Mohsen Rezaei as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, replacing Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr who has become a political adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba…
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Iran has appointed former Revolutionary Guards commander Mohsen Rezaei as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, replacing Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr who has become a political adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei. The newindianexpress.com reports that President Masoud Pezeshkian also held a rare publicised meeting with Khamenei, who has not appeared in public since taking office early in the Middle East war. Rezaei had said in July that control of the Strait of Hormuz was 'more important than dozens of atomic bombs'.
The Indian Opinion
The carefully stage-managed release of the Pezeshkian-Khamenei meeting photo only deepens the mystery around the supreme leader's condition. The narrative pushed by official channels, that all is normal, sits uneasily with the president's own admission that communication is 'very difficult'. Rezaei, a hardliner who once called Hormuz more important than atomic bombs, is a reassuring pick for the security establishment but a worrying one for anyone hoping for de-escalation. Watch whether Khamenei appears in public within the next month; that one image will answer more than a hundred statements.
Source: newindianexpress.com
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