Iranian Navy Chief Responsible for Closing Strait of Hormuz Killed in Strike Along with Head of the IRGC Navy Intelligence Directorate

Alireza Tangsiri/Image: Tasnim News Agency is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License./Author: Amin Ahouei

On Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy Commander Alireza Tangsiri was killed in a precision strike in Bandar Abbas.

Tangsiri frequently bragged on social media about closing the Strait.

On March 10, he wrote (translated from Persian), “At the beginning of the war, we declared—and...