{"id":38852,"date":"2026-10-05T19:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/pezeshkian-proposes-mehrdad-akhlaghi-as-new-defense-minister\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T19:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:15:24","slug":"pezeshkian-proposes-mehrdad-akhlaghi-as-new-defense-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/pezeshkian-proposes-mehrdad-akhlaghi-as-new-defense-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Pezeshkian proposes Mehrdad Akhlaghi as new defense minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5815818.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Akhlaghi is a senior Defense Ministry official and has previously headed the Aerospace Industries Organization.<\/p>\n<p>Sasan Valizadeh, an adviser to the president\u2019s parliamentary affairs deputy, announced the nomination on Monday, saying it was made in accordance with Article 133 of Iran\u2019s Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>If approved by Parliament, Akhlaghi will succeed Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh, who was martyred in a US-Israeli attack on Iran on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/248346\/Pezeshkian-nominates-Mehrdad-Akhlaghi-as-defense-minister\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akhlaghi is a senior Defense Ministry official and has previously headed the Aerospace Industries Organization. Sasan Valizadeh, an adviser to the president\u2019s parliamentary affairs deputy, announced the nomination on Monday, saying it was made in accordance with Article 133 of Iran\u2019s Constitution. If approved by Parliament, Akhlaghi will succeed Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh, who was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}