By order of the Minister of the Interior, an IRGC commander was appointed commander of the Corona counter-insurgency base

Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi has appointed Mohammad Hossein Sepehr as commander of the Corona Counter-Operations Base.

Sepehr, by order of Saeed Namaki, was a member of the country's vaccination coordination staff "and was previously the deputy coordinator of Khamenei's representation in the IRGC and" the deputy head of the Basij organization.