Source. A Times.
Tehran’s surprise move on June 10 to give National Security Council Admiral Ali Shamkhani an additional pivotal role has opened up some possibilities to consolidate the Syrian ceasefire and galvanize the peace process. US Secretary of State John Kerry is seeing winds of change in Iranian thinking on Syria. Tehran’s second move a week later, the removal of Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, came as a shock as he was close to Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and was identified with ‘hardline’ policies on Syria and Saudi Arabia
Two seemingly innocuous appointments at the top echelons of Iran’s foreign and security policy establishment raise the prospect that Tehran is resetting the compass in regional politics.