August 10th, 2026 - 05:40 GMT
ALBAWABA- Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei formally appointed six senior military commanders, consolidating wartime leadership structures amid ongoing US-Iran tensions, stalled efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and a recent meeting between the Iranian president and the supreme leader. The decrees replace or formalize roles left vacant or interim after the killings of several top officers in the US-Israeli strikes that began the conflict on 28 February 2026 ...
![This combination of two recent pictures made on January 9, 2014 shows (at L) Iranian president Hassan Rouhani in Tehran in a picture released by the Iranian Presidency and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iraq/000_Par7758484.jpg?itok=NeoeWgIf "This combination of two recent pictures made on January 9, 2014 shows (at L) Iranian president Hassan Rouhani in Tehran in a picture released by the Iranian Presidency and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. [AFP]")
![Iranian Navy fires a Mehrab (Altar) missile during the Velayat-90 naval drills in the general area of Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran on January 1, 2012. [Press TV]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/mbadakhsh20120714103748793.jpg?itok=z-G_toaG "Iranian Navy fires a Mehrab (Altar) missile during the Velayat-90 naval drills in the general area of Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran on January 1, 2012. [Press TV]")
![US Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, deputy Iranian negotiators Majid Ravanchi and Abbas Araghchi seated between them against the wall at a meeting in New York in September. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iran/iran_geneva.jpg?itok=rcFX6zf9 "US Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, deputy Iranian negotiators Majid Ravanchi and Abbas Araghchi seated between them against the wall at a meeting in New York in September. [AFP]")
![Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Ali Akbar Salehi [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/187646800.jpg?itok=kMyVWVIw "Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Ali Akbar Salehi [Getty Images]")
![Iran's Rouhani expected to search for new relationship with US diplomats. [us-iran]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iran/rouhani.jpg?itok=cUoLgTvk "Iran's Rouhani expected to search for new relationship with US diplomats. [us-iran]")
