Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Radan, the current deputy commander of the State Security Forces (SSF) in Tehran, will be promoted to the post of commander of the force, the government-run news agency Mehr reported.
Radan will replace Brigadier General Morteza Talai, who is leaving his command of the SSF in Greater Tehran in order to stand for office in the December 15 municipal elections.
Radan, a veteran Revolutionary Guards commander from the days of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War, previously headed the SSF in the north-eastern province of Khorassan Razavi.
