NEW COMMANDER OF ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD APPOINTED IN IRAN

New commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Mohammad Ali Jafari speaks in an August 29, 2007 meeting with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran, Iran. Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution and Chief Commander of the Armed Forces Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei appointed the new Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) commander, Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Jafari, in a decree issued on September 1, 2007. A picture of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hangs on a wall above his head. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Reza Alimadadi/Soureh/HO)