{"id":117192,"date":"2025-08-04T03:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117192\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T03:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:26:11","slug":"iran-sets-up-new-defence-council-after-war-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117192\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran sets up new defence council after war with Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n On Friday, the Fars news agency said the decision comes as part of broader structural changes to Iran’s security apparatus. [Fatemeh Bahrami\/Anadolu via Getty Images]<\/p>\n

Iran’s<\/a> top security body has approved the creation of a new defence council, state media reported on Sunday, more than a month after a ceasefire ended a 12-day war with Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The Supreme National Security Council<\/a> approved the establishment of the National Defence Council,” state television said.<\/p>\n

The new body – which will be chaired by the president and include top military commanders among other senior officials and ministers – will be tasked with “reviewing defence strategies” and “enhancing the capabilities of Iran’s armed forces”, it added.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the Fars news agency said the decision comes as part of broader structural changes to Iran’s security apparatus.<\/p>\n

The move comes in the wake of a conflict with Israel that, according to official figures, left more than 1,000 people dead in Iran and 29 in Israel.<\/p>\n

The war began on 13 June, when Israel launched strikes on military, nuclear and residential sites in Iran.<\/p>\n

Iran responded with retaliatory attacks on Israeli territory.<\/p>\n

A ceasefire announced by the United States has been in place since 24 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, the Fars news agency said the decision comes as part of broader structural changes to Iran’s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[83,99,71,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-117192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-israel-iran-conflict","11":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114968368513231808","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}