{"id":11010,"date":"2017-11-06T06:16:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T06:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=11010"},"modified":"2017-11-06T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:53:09","slug":"leader-appoints-new-army-commanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/leader-appoints-new-army-commanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Leader Appoints New Army Commanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"lead\">TEHRAN (Tasnim) &#8211; Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei appointed a new commander as chief of the Iranian Navy, and replaced the lieutenant commander of the Army.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"story\">\n<p>In separate decrees on Sunday, Ayatollah Khamenei, Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces, put Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi in charge of the Navy, appointed his predecessor to a new post in the Army, and replaced the Army lieutenant commander.<\/p>\n<p>The former long-serving Navy commander, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, will be serving as the deputy chief of the Army for coordination from now on.<\/p>\n<p>And according to the third decree, Brigadier General Mohammad Hossein Dadras succeeded Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan as the lieutenant commander of the Army.<\/p>\n<p>Imam Khamenei has repeatedly stressed the need for strengthening the country\u2019s military power and called on the Armed Forces to maintain a high level of preparedness.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Army comprises four major forces, namely the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force and Air Defense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN (Tasnim) &#8211; Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei appointed a new commander as chief of the Iranian Navy, and replaced the lieutenant commander of the Army. In separate decrees on Sunday, Ayatollah Khamenei, Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces, put Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi in charge of the Navy, appointed his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-scientists-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11012,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010\/revisions\/11012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}