Iran has appointed Mohsen Rezaei, a 71-year-old former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, to head the Supreme National Security Council, the body at the top of the country's security decision-making [1]. Rezaei arrives at the post with a distinction no other holder has carried: he has been the subject of an Interpol Red Notice since 2007 in connection with the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires [1].
The AMIA attack killed 85 people [1]. It remains the deadliest act of its kind in Argentina's history, and for the families of the dead it has meant more than three decades of pursuing accountability across courts, governments, and international institutions. An Argentine court ruling attributed the bombing's execution to Hezbollah and found that the attack was, in the court's words, "initiated, planned and funded by Iran" [1]. The Red Notice naming Rezaei has stood for 19 years. A Red Notice is not an international arrest warrant; it is a request that member countries locate and provisionally arrest the person named. In practice it has meant that Rezaei's career has proceeded inside Iran while the notice followed him everywhere else.
That career has now reached its highest point. Rezaei replaces Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr at the head of the council [1]. He is also the second person to hold the post in under five months: Israel killed Ali Larijani, the previous long-term figure associated with the role, in mid-March 2026 [1]. Two turnovers at the top of Iran's security apparatus in that span is itself a measure of the pressure the leadership is under, and the choice of Rezaei to steady it is a choice about direction. He is not a technocrat or a diplomat. He is one of the founding generation of IRGC commanders, and Tehran has reached for him at a moment when its security establishment is being reshaped by assassination and war.
The appointment tells the outside world something it should read plainly. A man wanted by Interpol in connection with the killing of 85 civilians has not been sidelined, shielded quietly, or retired into obscurity. He has been promoted to the most senior security position in the state. For Argentina, which has spent 32 years building a judicial record of the AMIA bombing, and for the families who still mark the anniversary every July, the message from Tehran is that the record changes nothing inside Iran's system [1].
What the record itself says does not move with the news cycle. Eighty-five people were killed at a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994. An Argentine court found the attack was executed by Hezbollah and initiated, planned and funded by Iran. Interpol has named Mohsen Rezaei in connection with it since 2007. As of today, he runs the Supreme National Security Council [1].
