Ali Larijani reappointed secretary of Iran’s top security body

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has appointed Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to the supreme leader, as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.

The appointment takes place amid institutional changes following a 12-day air war with Israel in June, the Islamic Republic’s most severe security challenge since a war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in the 1980s.

A former member of the Revolutionary Guards, Larijani…