Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei has appointed Mohsen Rezaei as his representative to the Supreme National Security Council, replacing Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr. A decree issued Sunday formalised the change, while President Masoud Pezeshkian separately named Rezaei secretary of the council, a presidential aide confirmed.
Rezaei, a senior military adviser and former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is one of the longest-serving figures in Iran's power structure and a veteran of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Khamenei praised him as a pioneer of the "Sacred Defence", Iran's term for the 1980–1988 war with Iraq.
The appointment follows a weekend in which state media published a list of demands put forward by Zolghadr, including the lifting of the U.S. naval blockade, withdrawal of military forces, and a definitive end to the war.