Senior positions occupied by the Revolutionary Guards in Iran with the knowledge of the Iranian government.

 The looming threat of arrest may have barred Vahidi from any position that would require a high degree of international travel, but it should have signaled to Tehran that the international community would be needlessly provoked by his appointment to any high-profile position.


Recently, announced that Mohammad Baqer Zolghadr became the new head of the Iranian regime’s Expediency Council following the appointment of its former secretary, Mohsen Rezaei, as Ebrahim Raisi’s vice president for economic affairs in Raisi’s newly-formed government.

Vahidi now occupies the position of Interior Minister in the Raisi government, and he promises to advance the IRGC’s terrorist and inhumane interests domestically, while other former paramilitary operatives fill that role in foreign policy circles.