Israel says it has killed the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Navy, Alireza Tangsiri, the BBC reports.
Defence Minister Israel Katz said Tangsiri was “directly responsible for the terrorist act of bombing and blocking the Strait of Hormuz”, and has been “blown up.”
He added that a number of other “senior Navy command officials” have also been killed.
Iran has not yet commented.
Alireza Tangsiri was appointed as the commander of the Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in 2018. Previously he had served as the deputy commander of the IRGC navy from 2010.
Tangsiri was sanctioned by the US Treasury along with other IRGC commanders in 2019 after Iran shot down a US surveillance drone near the strait.
