Iran names ex-Revolutionary Guard commander as new secretary of Supreme National Security Council

Cyclists ride past a giant billboard with a portrait of Iran's slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (C) at the Valiasr Square in Tehran on March 22, 2026. (FILE/AFP)

• Iranian state television identified the new secretary as Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr

DUBAI: Iran named a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander as the new secretary of the country’s Supreme National Security Council on Tuesday, replacing Ali Larijani, who was killed in an airstrike.
Iranian state television identified the new secretary as Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr.
Zolghadr reached the rank of brigadier general in the Guard. He had been serving as the secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council.