Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr

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Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr (born 1954) is an Iranian politician and former military officer who serves as a political advisor to the Supreme Leader of Iran. He previously served as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from March to August 2026 and as secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council from 2021 to 2026. Before the 1979 Islamic revolution, Zolghadr was active in carrying out attacks against the monarchy, and in 1978 he killed an American engineer and an oil company manager. He served as the commander of the IRGC Irregular Warfare Headquarters, as well as the Ramazan Headquarters, which formed the basis for the Quds Force, the IRGC’s foreign branch that conducts asymmetric warfare outside of Iran. He was later a Brigadier General in the IRGC, with whom he served from 1979 to 2010. He was the Chief of the Joint Staff of the IRGC from 1989 to 1997, and Second-in-Command of the IRGC from 1997 to 2006. After he helped Mahmoud Ahmadinejad come to power with a "multilayered...

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