Iran has appointed , a former Revolutionary Guard commander wanted by Interpol over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, as head of its Supreme National Security Council, the presidency confirmed on Sunday.
The council is Iran's top strategic decision-making body, coordinating defence, foreign policy and security matters across the regime. Rezaei, 71, is the second official to take the post since the assassination of Ali Larijani by Israel in mid-March, during the early weeks of the war between the US, Israel and Iran.
