Why did Iran appoint former IRGC chief Mohsen Rezaei to top security post? Abas Aslani explains

Iran's former Revolutionary Guards commander-in-chief Mohsen Rezaei has been named secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, while President Masoud Pezeshkian has held a rare meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since succeeding his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following his assassination at the start of the war on February 28. The Iranian presidency announced on Sunday that Rezaei, 71, would replace Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr as secr