{"id":190221,"date":"2026-07-04T14:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/190221\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:49:08","slug":"irgc-navy-appoints-rear-admiral-ali-azmaei-as-new-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/190221\/","title":{"rendered":"IRGC Navy appoints Rear Admiral Ali Azmaei as new commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rear Admiral Ali Azmaei has officially been appointed commander of the IRGC Navy, replacing the late Alireza Tangsiri.<\/p>\n<p>Azmaei previously commanded the IRGC\u2019s 5th Naval Zone, responsible for patrolling the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/ulviyya-salmanli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Ulviyya Salmanli<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rear Admiral Ali Azmaei has officially been appointed commander of the IRGC Navy, replacing the late Alireza Tangsiri.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[16377,12370,34,424,1488,39,101],"class_list":["post-190221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-alireza-tangsiri","tag-commander","tag-iran","tag-irgc","tag-navy","tag-persian-gulf","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116862265746892311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}