{"id":26192,"date":"2026-10-18T12:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T12:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=26192"},"modified":"2026-10-18T12:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T12:31:16","slug":"akhlaqi-ketabchi-appointed-as-irans-new-defense-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/10\/18\/akhlaqi-ketabchi-appointed-as-irans-new-defense-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Akhlaqi Ketabchi appointed as Iran&#8217;s new Defense Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Iran\u2019s parliament has approved Mehrdad Akhlaqi Ketabchi as the country\u2019s new Defense Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After securing lawmakers\u2019 confidence, he warned that Tehran would deliver a broad and unexpected response if the United States and Israel launched another attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Iranian state television, Ketabchi received 237 votes in favor and 15 against.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He replaces Aziz Nasirzadeh, who was killed in U.S. and Israeli attacks on February 28. Following Nasirzadeh\u2019s death, Majid Ibn al-Reza served as acting defense minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Iran\u2019s parliament has approved Mehrdad Akhlaqi Ketabchi as the country\u2019s new Defense Minister. After securing lawmakers\u2019 confidence, he warned that Tehran would deliver a broad and unexpected response if the United States and Israel launched another attack. According to Iranian state television, Ketabchi received 237 votes in favor and 15 against. He replaces Aziz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26194,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26192\/revisions\/26194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}