Immortals
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I don’t agree. Those are senior military and political officials with decades of expertise that we have lost and cannot be replaced easily. Vahidi is no Mousavi or Bagheri.
Vahidi was a key engineer in the PM Hariri Sr assassination in Lebanon and Iran’s external operations around the world in the 1980s and 1990s, Vahidi has done more high risk operations in his life than most of those pencil pushers you said like Bagheri or Salami or Shamkhani.
Most of these guys were from an old era of warfare fighting that doesn’t exist anymore or maybe never existed. And they had a tendency to waste too many human lives. Solemani against ISIS in Iraq and Al-Queda Syria, still used human wave tactics. There needed to be a changing of the guard sooner or later. Iran is the only major military in the world that has 70-80 year old generals still leading the charge.
Also Bagheri got transferred to head Artesh and did nothing. No modernization of Artesh took place. Not even some manpad orders. Instead he went to Russia and looked at some *checks notes* attack helicopters.








