Iran has named a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander as the new secretary of the country’s Supreme National Security Council this week.
The new official, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, reached the rank of brigadier general in the IRGC before serving as the secretary of Iran's Expediency Council.
The previous security secretary, Ali Larijani, was killed in an airstrike last week.
President Donald Trump has touted the speed with which the U.S. and Israel eliminated Iran's top leadership at the outset of the conflict.
He gloated to a crowd in Memphis, Tennessee, on Tuesday that Iran's top leaders have been eliminated many times over in the weeks since the conflict began.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Posted by Anders Hagstrom