Iran confirmed Monday a targeted Israeli air strike killed the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval units, Alireza Tangsiri, who Israel held responsible for the blocking of the vital Strait of Hormuz.
A statement seen by AFP carried by the Guards’ Sepah News website said Alireza Tangsiri “succumbed to severe injuries” from the attack last Thursday.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz announced then an Israeli airstrike had killed Tangsiri, describing him as the “man who was directly responsible for the terrorist operation of mining and blocking the Strait of Hormuz,” as Breitbart News reported.
The head of the IRGC Navy intelligence directorate, Behnam Rezaei, was killed in the same strike on the port city of Bandar Abbas.
Since the start of the war now in its second month, Iran has imposed a de facto blockade on the key waterway, sending global energy prices spiralling even
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