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Armed forces ready to work with new gov’t: Top general
Mohammad Baqeri made the remarks after a meeting with Iran’s president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian who won the July 5 runoff election to replace the late president Ebrahim Raisi who died in a helicopter crash on May 19.
Iran’s top general said that the military forces alongside their main obligations, which are defending and establishing security in the country, will also stand by the new government with all their might, just like the previous governments.
Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Gharaei Ashtiani, Army Chief Commander Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, chief commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami and Police chief Brigadier General Ahmadreza Radan also attended the Saturday meeting with Pezeshkian.