Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani has appointed former Tehran prosecutor general, Saeed Mortazavi, as deputy prosecutor general, Press TV reported.
Ayatollah Larijani on Saturday replaced Mortazavi with Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi, who held the position of judiciary head in the southwestern province of Khuzestan.
In a separate command, Ayatollah Larijani named Gholam-Hossein Esmaeili as head of the State Prisons and Security and Corrective Measures Organization.