Iran has replaced six senior military figures, according to decrees published on Monday evening on a Telegram channel that disseminates news from Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.<\/p>\n
Iranian media also reported the appointments and published images of a ceremony in which Khamenei, however, was not visible.<\/p>\n
Given that US-Israeli airstrikes had specifically targeted and killed military leaders in the country, the new appointments could bring a degree of order to the leadership.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, the appointments could signal that Tehran is moving away from a state of acute crisis towards the formalization and consolidation of the power structure.<\/p>\n
Ahmad Vahidi was promoted to the rank of general and formally appointed commander-in-chief of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).<\/p>\n
He had already been serving in the role since the killing of his predecessor.<\/p>\n
Hossein Taeb, a long-serving intelligence officer, was appointed as the new head of the paramilitary Basij militias.<\/p>\n
Brigadier Generals Ali Abdollahi and Ali Asmai were appointed chief of staff of the armed forces and commander of the IRGC’s naval forces, respectively. Two further appointments concerned deputy positions.<\/p>\n
It comes after Khamenei appointed former IRGC commander Mohsen Rezaee as the new chairman of Iran’s National Security Council on Sunday.<\/p>\n
In comments to the New York Times, Iran expert Hamidreza Azizi described the appointment as a move to counterbalance the influence of Parliament Speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf, who most recently acted as chief negotiator in talks with the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran has replaced six senior military figures, according to decrees published on Monday evening on a Telegram channel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[68018,25487,32669,34,2289,1173,69],"class_list":["post-243985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-ahmad-wahidi","tag-ali-abdollahi","tag-appointments","tag-iran","tag-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-revolutionary-guard","tag-tehran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117073096539881499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243985","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=243985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}