Iran’s new deputy state broadcasting chief appointed

Iran Focus:

Tehran, Iran, Aug. 29 – Iran appointed on Sunday a new deputy chief for state broadcasting, a state-run news agency reported.

Abdolreza Rahmani was appointed as the deputy head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) by its current chief Seyyed Ezatollah Zarqami.

The influential position includes control over state television and radio broadcasts.

Zarqami also appointed Morteza Mirbagheri as the organisation’s deputy chief for television broadcasts and promoted Ali Agha Mohammadi to the position of chief advisor and head of the group of counsellors. Agha Mohammadi is also the spokesman for the Supreme National Security Council, the country’s highest decision-making body for security-related issues.

Until 2004 IRIB was headed for ten years by Ali Larijani who now heads the Supreme National Security Council.