Exclusive Interview with Ali Shamkhani, Rear Admiral Upper Half, military advisor to and delegate of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, and secretary of the Supreme Na-tional Security Council.
Ali Shamkhani is the secretary of the highest security-political organization in the Islamic Repub-lic of Iran, i.e. the "Supreme National Security Council”. He plays a very remarkable role in both proposing and legislating defensive, security and political strategies of the country. The most important strategic decisions of the country in internal, security and foreign policy equations are made in the Supreme National Security Council and the sanctioned laws, after the approval of the Supreme Leader,...