Khamenei appoints new chief for Iran's Revolutionary Guards
DUBAI - Iran’s top authority Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has replaced the head of the influential Revolutionary Guards Corps, state TV reported on Sunday, days after the United States designated the elite group a foreign terrorist organization.
served as deputy commander of the Guards for years and is known for his hardline comments against Israel and the United States. On April 13, Salami was quoted by Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency as saying that he and the IRGC were proud of being designated a terrorist group by Washington.The IRGC, created by late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, is more than a military force. It is also an industrial empire with political clout and is loyal to the supreme leader.
Salami, born in 1960, said in January that Iran’s strategy was to wipe “the Zionist regime” off the political map, Iran’s state TV reported.
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