Iran’s leadership is reorganizing its military command for a longer, more offensive confrontation with the United States and Israel, merging key command structures and installing IRGC-aligned officials in top security posts.
Bloomberg reported that IRGC General Mohammad Reza Naqdi described a shift to an “offensive doctrine” aimed at taking operations “into enemy territory” when ordered, and said Iran’s ballistic missile and drone production remains well above current use. The same reporting said Khamenei named IRGC veteran Mohsen Rezaei to head the Supreme National Security Council and ordered Major General Ali Abdollahi to complete a merger of the Armed Forces General Staff with the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, reversing a 2016 split. Newly appointed IRGC commander Ahmad Vahidi has taken a hardline public stance against U.S. concessions on reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
The command merger brings strategic planning and wartime execution under one structure, reducing friction between headquarters and field commanders and concentrating authority under leadership drawn heavily from the IRGC. If U.S. and Israeli pressure was intended to weaken Iran’s war posture, the reorganization points the other way: Tehran is centralizing command and preparing for a longer fight rather than a negotiated exit.
