The veteran IRGC commander who’s now Iran’s top security official
Rezaei appointed commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, and has spent more than five decades at the heart of Iran’s political, security and military establishment.
Mohammed Salem/Reuters Iran’s new national security chief is a military veteran and prominent regime figure who has voiced skepticism of negotiations with the United States.
Hardline pragmatist: Deeply rooted in Iran’s security establishment, Rezaei later joined the Expediency Council, which advises the supreme leader, and served as a vice president under former President Ebrahim Raisi.
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