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Iran's supreme leader appoints Guards general as military head

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 1894 words · By FRANCE
Middle East Geopolitics Israeli-Palestinian Conflict US-Iran conflict
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Iran's supreme leader appoints Guards general as military head Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei appointed Revolutionary Guards General Ali Abdollahi to the top post of the country's armed forces on Monday, while also confirming a new commander of the…

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Iran's supreme leader appoints Guards general as military head Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei appointed Revolutionary Guards General Ali Abdollahi to the top post of the country's armed forces on Monday, while also confirming a new commander of the…

Why it matters

Earlier, Iran said the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until the US met certain demands made by Tehran.

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Claim 1: “Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd... will resume sailing through the Suez Canal instead of going around Africa's Cape of Good Hope”
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Claim 2: “a defence pact signed last week between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan”
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Claim 3: “Colombia's newly appointed hard-right government on Monday recognised Israel's claim over the Golan Heights”
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Multiple web search results explicitly state that Colombia's newly appointed hard-right government recognized Israel's claim over the Golan Heights on Monday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau in southwestern Syria, in the Levant region of Western Asia, that has been occupied by Israel since it was captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. The international …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_Gola…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Golan Heights, or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria, the majority of which has been occupied and administered by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War. It is bor…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Golan Heights Law (Hebrew: חוק רמת הגולן, romanized: Khok Ramat HaGolan) is the Israeli law which applies Israel's government and laws to the Golan Heights. It was ratified by the Knesset by a vot…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights_Law
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Claim 4: “Rezaei replaces Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr as second-in-command of the body... Zolqadr was appointed as political adviser to Khamenei”
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Claim 5: “President Masoud Pezeshkian described a nearly seven-hour meeting with Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei”
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Claim 6: “Iran said the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until the US met certain demands made by Tehran”
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The claim is corroborated by multiple web search results (Kurdistan24 and others) and verified by Wikipedia entries regarding the '2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a major maritime choke point for world energy trade, has been largely blocked by Iran since 28 February 2026, when the United States and Israel launched …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Strait_of_Hormuz_crisis
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Following the 2026 Iran war, Iran has asserted sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, increasing its total area and adding to its territorial waters. Iran has asserted this control over the strait by …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_sovereignty_over_the_S…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Strait of Hormuz () is a waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. On the north coast lies Iran, and on the south coast lies the Musandam Peninsula under the Musandam Governorate of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz
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Claim 7: “US President Donald Trump departed on a secret military flight from Turkey last month when the White House said he was flying aboard Air Force One”
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Multiple web sources, citing the Washington Post and Ajel English, report that Donald Trump used a secret military flight and a ruse involving a catering truck to leave Turkey.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — At 80 years old, Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, became the oldest person in American history to become president upon his second inauguration in 2025. In July 2024, fi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of presidential trips made by Donald Trump during 2026, the second year of his second presidency as the 47th president of the United States. This list excludes trips made within Washing…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump has been the target of numerous assassination attempts and death threats during his presidential campaigning and his presidencies of the United States of America. The earliest known attem…
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Claim 8: “Dutch gas for August was up 10.5% at €61.39 per megawatt hour by 1550 GMT, ICE data showed”
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Claim 9: “The equivalent British contract was 11.1% higher at 151.02 pence per therm”
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Claim 10: “US President Donald Trump said Monday he would seek conflict compensation from Iran”
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Claim 11: “a drone crashed into an untreated naphtha tank at the Zawiya refinery early on Saturday causing a leak”
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Claim 12: “Explosions occurred at a fuel tank at Libya's Zawiya refinery on Monday”
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Claim 13: “The return of displaced Syrian Kurds to their northeastern hometown of Ras al-Ain was suspended on Monday after a first group of returnees was attacked”
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Claim 14: “Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei appointed Revolutionary Guards General Ali Abdollahi to the top post of the country's armed forces on Monday”
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Multiple independent sources, including The Hindu, Xinhua, and China.org.cn, report that Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei appointed General Ali Abdollahi as the head of the armed forces on Monday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Khamenei family is an Iranian religious and political family that has ruled Iran as the state's supreme leader since Ali Khamenei was elected to the position as its second holder in 1989. After hi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khamenei_family
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Masoud Hosseini Khamenei (born 1974), also known as Mohsen Khamenei is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric. A member of the Khamenei family, he is the third son of the second Iranian supreme leader Ali K…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masoud_Khamenei
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei (born 8 September 1969) is an Iranian Shia cleric and politician who has served as the third supreme leader of Iran since 2026. A member of the Khamenei family and the second…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojtaba_Khamenei
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Claim 15: “Iran has appointed Mohsen Rezaei as secretary of its Supreme National Security Council”
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Claim 16: “Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has made six new appointments to the Revolutionary Guards and armed forces, including Major General Pilot Ali Abdollahi as chief of staff of the armed forces and Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi as commander-in-chief of the IRGC”
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Claim 17: “Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella took power on Friday”
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Wikipedia entries confirm that Abelardo de la Espriella is the 36th president of Colombia, having won the May 2026 election.
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web search NEUTRAL — Abelardo Gabriel de la Espriella Otero is a Colombian lawyer, businessman, and politician who has served as the 36th president of Colombia since 2026. He is the founder and leader of the Defenders of …
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web search NEUTRAL — Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 31 May 2026. Incumbent president Gustavo Petro, elected in 2022, was constitutionally barred from seeking a second term. Abelardo de la Espriella defeat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Colombian_presidential_el…
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web search NEUTRAL — Abelardo de la Espriella being interviewed while campaigning for the Colombian presidential elections May, 2026 -- public domain image.
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Claim 18: “The United States was until now the only country to recognise Israel's annexation of the territory in 1981”
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Multiple sources confirm that prior to Colombia, the United States was the only country to recognize Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 7 October 2023, several countries such as Italy, Japan, Spain, Canada, Colombia, the Netherlands and Belgium have ceased the sale of weapons to Israel. Key United States allies such as Britain h…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_embargoes_on_Israel_since…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the so…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched joint airstrikes on Iran, starting the 2026 Iran war. The strikes targeted Iranian officials, military commanders, and military assets, assas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_2026_Iran_war
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Claim 19: “Netanyahu explicitly stated on Sunday that he opposed the Gaza plan, which called for Israel to begin pulling back forces in tandem with disarmament by Hamas”
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The provided evidence consists of general information about the name 'Benjamin' and does not contain any information regarding Benjamin Netanyahu's stance on a Gaza plan.
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web search NEUTRAL — By allusion to the biblical Benjamin, in French, Polish and Spanish, "Benjamin" (benjamin / beniamin / benjamín, respectively) is a common noun meaning the youngest child of a family, especially a par…
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web search NEUTRAL — Benjamin is often shortened to Ben, and sometimes to Benny, Benito, Benjy, Benji, etc. It is also a patronymic surname. Like many biblical names, it is popular in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim fait…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 26, 2026 · As an English name, Benjamin came into general use after the Protestant Reformation. A famous bearer was Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), an American statesman, inventor, scientist and ph…
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Claim 20: “a powerful earthquake struck western Colombia, killing at least 111 people and injuring dozens more”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general definitions of earthquakes and live earthquake maps, but contains no specific report of an earthquake in western Colombia killing 111 people.
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web search NEUTRAL — An earthquake, also called a quake, tremor, or temblor, is the shaking of the Earth 's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
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web search NEUTRAL — An earthquake is the shaking of the ground caused by a sudden release of energy along fault lines when tectonic plates move. The world's longest fault line is the San Andreas Fault in California.
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web search NEUTRAL — 30 Days, Magnitude 4.5+ U.S. 30 Days, Magnitude 2.5+ U.S. 30 Days, All Magnitudes U.S. Search Earthquake Catalog
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Claim 21: “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had discussed the drone deal and food security with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday”
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Claim 22: “Hundreds of people had gone back to the town on Monday, months after a January agreement with the Syrian government on merging Kurdish forces and civil institutions into the state”
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