(FILES) This handout photo made available by the Iranian Young Journalist Club (YJC) shows Iran's presidential candidate Mohsen Rezai during the second televised debate ahead of the June 18 election, at the Iran State television studio in Tehran on June 8, 2021. The former commander in chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rezaei, has been named head of the country's highest national security body, the Iranian presidency announced on August 9, 2026. Rezaei, 71, led the Guards from 1981 to 1997 -- a tenure that included almost all of the Iran-Iraq war -- before going on to occupy several high-ranking political posts. He then served as military adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei. (Photo by MORTEZA FAKHRI NEZHAD / YJC NEWS AGENCY / AFP via Getty Images) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /IRANIAN YOUNG JOURNALIST CLUB (YJC) " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS