Ali Shamkhani, one of the top figures within the Iranian establishment. He has left his post as the country’s security chief after almost a decade.
Also, State media confirmed on Monday that President Ebrahim Raisi, as the head of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC). He has appointed Ali Akbar Ahmadian. A senior commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as Shamkhani’s replacement
Shamkhani had appointed as the secretary of the SNSC in September 2013. And has instrumental in shaping Iran’s security policies in the past decade.
He appeared to announce his departure late Sunday by posting an excerpt of a cryptic poem on Twitter from 16th-century Iranian poet Muhtasham Kashani.
After successfully completing a detente with Saudi Arabia. This saw the two countries agreeing to restore diplomatic ties in a China-brokered deal in March. Thus following a seven-year rift, Shamkhani leaves his post.
Thus, relations with the West, however, remain highly confrontational, amid stalled efforts to restore Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and after protests rocked Iran last September. The SNSC had been in charge of the nuclear file, while also being one of the main entities managing the local unrest. But Shamkhani was only one of the voices at the council.