Veteran military commander and strategist Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr has been officially appointed as the new Secretary of Iran’s Supreme Nation...
Veteran military commander and strategist Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr has been officially appointed as the new Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC).
Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabai, the
Deputy for Communications and Information at the Iranian President's Office,
announced it in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday.
Zolqadr has been appointed to the
top security chair by a direct presidential decree and with the
endorsement of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba
Khamenei.
He replaces Ali Larijani, who was
assassinated in the Israeli-American terrorist strike last week. Larijani had
served in the position since August 2025.
The appointment of Zolqadr, a
veteran commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and former
senior security official, comes as the war imposed on Iran enters the fifth
week.
According to
insiders, he brings decades of experience across Iran's military, security, and
judicial institutions to the post at a critical juncture.
He previously served as deputy
chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces for Basij affairs, and held
senior positions in the judiciary for nearly a decade.
Before the 1979 Islamic
Revolution, Zolqadr earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Tehran
University, followed by a master's in public administration from the same
university. He later completed a doctorate in strategic management at the
National Defense University.
Following the Holy Defense war in
the late 1980s, Zolqadr served for eight years as head of the IRGC Joint Staff
during the presidency of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. He then spent another eight
years as deputy commander-in-chief of the IRGC.
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