{"id":51353,"date":"2025-08-03T21:24:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/iran-sets-up-new-defense-council-in-wake-of-war-with-israel\/03\/08\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T21:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:24:38","slug":"iran-sets-up-new-defense-council-in-wake-of-war-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/iran-sets-up-new-defense-council-in-wake-of-war-with-israel\/03\/08\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran sets up new defense council in wake of war with Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The defense council will be chaired by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, and consists of the heads of the three government branches, senior armed forces commanders, and relevant ministries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Iran&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/islamic-republic-defense-shake-tehran-152536226.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:top security body approved the establishment of a National Defense Council;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">top security body approved the establishment of a National Defense Council<\/a> on Sunday, according to state media, following the war with Israel in June that was Iran&#8217;s most acute military challenge since the 1980s Iran-Iraq War.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The new defense body will review defense plans and enhance the capabilities of Iran&#8217;s armed forces in a centralized manner,&#8221; the Supreme National Security Council&#8217;s Secretariat was quoted as saying by state media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The defense council will be chaired by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, and consists of the heads of the three government branches, senior armed forces commanders, and relevant ministries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Sunday, the commander-in-chief of Iran&#8217;s military, Amir Hatami, warned that threats from Israel persist and should not be underestimated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>This is a developing story.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/iran-sets-defense-council-wake-232826131.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defense council will be chaired by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, and consists of the heads of the three government branches, senior<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/iran-sets-up-new-defense-council-in-wake-of-war-with-israel\/03\/08\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/jerusalem_post_articles_818\/617f959269612de02deeedea62c90a1c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}