commander
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Female officials are rare and female military commanders are even rarer.
From BBC
A key player in the crackdown on mass protests, he was previously a commander of the aerospace force of the IRGC, then Iran’s police chief before becoming Tehran’s mayor.
The commander of Iran’s army said in January that the armed forces received a new shipment of 1,000 drones.
But Ms. Rodríguez emerged unscathed and was immediately promoted, making her commander in chief of Venezuela’s armed forces and security forces.
Some 30 Iranian top commanders were killed in the 12-day war with Israel last summer, without disrupting Iranian retaliatory attacks.
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