Iran replaces top security official at crucial moment in talks over Strait of Hormuz
Mohsen Rezaei appointed head of Supreme National Security Council after Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr steps down
Source: Financial Times
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DW NOTE
Iran just swapped its top security official in the middle of ceasefire talks to reopen a strait that's been shut for 162 days, strangled 2,000 ships, and cut global oil supply by 8 million barrels a day. Rezaei is a hardliner who commanded the Revolutionary Guards during the Iran-Iraq War. If Tehran wanted to signal flexibility, it would have kept the technocrat.