️🇮🇷🇮🇶️ Iran chose Abdul Reza Maskarian (also known as Abdul Reza Novakhat), a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as its new ambassador to Iraq, instead of Muhammad Kazem al-Sadeq.
Maskarian is a Kurdish commander from Kermanshah who previously led the Ramadan Command, a military formation established in 1984 during the Iran-Iraq War that handled Iranian operations inside Iraq and coordinated with Iraqi and Kurdish groups opposed to Saddam Hussein.
His appointment continues a pattern of senior IRGC and Quds Force officials serving as Tehran's top diplomat in Baghdad.