Iran Names IRGC Veteran to Replace Slain Security Head Ali Larijani

Iran appointed a hardline veteran of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as the country’s top national-security leader, replacing Ali Larijani, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last week.

Mohammad-Bagher Zolghadr was named secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, the semi-official Fars news agency said on Tuesday. He’s a former deputy commander of the IRGC who entered politics after he was made deputy interior minister in 2005 by former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.