(JNS) Three months after what many Iranians describe as a national catastrophe—the butchery of some 45,000 patriotic protesters during the January 2026 nationwide uprising—and only weeks after the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a notorious dictator has re-emerged at the center of Iran’s Shi’a mafia structure.
The return of Ahmad Vahidi is not a routine bureaucratic reshuffle. It is a deliberate signal, aimed both at a restless domestic population and foreign adversaries closely watching Tehran’s next move.
Vahidi is no ordinary official.
A long-standing figure within Iran’s military establishment, he rose through the ranks of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps during the 1980s, serving in senior intelligence and military roles before going on to command the Quds Force from 1988 to 1995. The fact bases of the IRGC and the Quds Force—military institutions of the Islamic terrorist regime in Tehran—have no connection to the Iranian people.
In that position, Vahidi played a formative role in shaping Iran’s approach to regional power...
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