Iran\u2019s army commander-in-chief Amir Hatami said on Sunday that recent wars and multilateral sanctions had shown the country\u2019s military strength increasingly depends on domestic capabilities, innovation and technical expertise.<\/p>\n
In a message congratulating Mehrdad Akhlaghi on becoming defense minister, Hatami said he expected \u201crapid and effective steps\u201d to improve combat readiness, strengthen deterrence and reinforce what he called lasting national security.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, the two recent imposed wars and multilateral sanctions have shown that the country\u2019s defensive strength depends more than ever on domestic capabilities, innovation, self-reliance and the knowledge and capacity of its experts,\u201d Hatami said.<\/p>\n
He said the army viewed closer cooperation with the Defense Ministry as a strategic necessity and was ready to work with it on developing domestically produced equipment and meeting the armed forces\u2019 operational needs.<\/p>\n
Akhlaghi was approved by parliament on Sunday with 237 votes in favor, replacing Aziz Nasirzadeh, who was killed in strikes on the first day of the war in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s army commander-in-chief Amir Hatami said on Sunday that recent wars and multilateral sanctions had shown the country\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,801,166405,166402,166400,1570,166403,166398,166401,166399,166404,129,3,452,453,3667],"class_list":["post-886562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-and-china","tag-iran-covid","tag-iran-economy","tag-iran-government","tag-iran-media-iran-and-the-united-states","tag-iran-news","tag-iran-nuclear","tag-iran-politics","tag-iran-us","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-us-sanctions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}