More than a week after Iran’s Supreme National Security Council’s secretary Ali Larijani was killed in an Israeli airstrike, Tehran has named a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander as his replacement. Iranian state television identified the new secretary as Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr. Zolghadr reached the rank of brigadier general in the Guard and has been serving as the secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council. Ali Larijani killed in Israeli airstrikeLarijani, 67, was widely believed to be running the country following the killing of Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He was known to have led the nation’s nuclear negotiations with the West.

Source: Indian Express March 24, 2026 11:25 UTC