Urgent: Israeli defense minister claims death of IRGC navy commander-Xinhua

Urgent: Israeli defense minister claims death of IRGC navy commander

Source: Xinhua

Editor: huaxia

2026-03-26 18:28:30

JERUSALEM, March 26 (Xinhua) -- The Israeli military killed the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps Navy, Alireza Tangsiri, in an airstrike early on Thursday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz claimed in a statement.

Earlier in the day, Israel's state-owned Kan TV news, citing an Israeli official, said Tangsiri was killed in an Israeli airstrike on an Iranian naval base in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas.