TEHRAN -- Just two months after Iran and Saudi Arabia resumed diplomatic relations, Tehran's chief architect of the rapprochement is out of his post.
Ali Shamkhani stepped down earlier this week as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, arguably the nation's most important decision-making organization on defense and national security policies. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi appointed Gen. Ali Akbar Ahmadian, a veteran of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as his replacement.
