The appointment of Mohsen Rezaei, a longtime military commander, to a top security post suggests that the country’s establishment is consolidating power.
Mohsen Rezaei, an adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, attending a funeral ceremony for Mr. Khamenei’s father and predecessor, in Tehran last month.
The head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said that the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until the United States met certain conditions.
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