Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy commander Alireza Tangsiri was targeted and killed in an Israeli attack, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has noted.
“Tonight, in a precise and deadly operation, the IDF eliminated the commander of the IRGC Navy, Tangsiri, along with senior members of the naval command,” Katz noted, according to a translation from Hebrew. “The man directly responsible for the terrorist act of mining and blocking shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has been targeted and eliminated.”
“This is a clear message to all senior officials of the Iranian IRGC terror organization currently ruling Iran: the IDF will hunt you down and eliminate you one by one. I congratulate the IDF on a perfect execution,” Katz indicated. “This is also important news for our US partners, expressing the IDF’s assistance in reopening the Strait of Hormuz and the historic partnership between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and between our two countries and two militaries.”
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Iranian Revolutionary Guards naval commander Alireza Tangsiri toured an exhibition in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, Iran, on Friday, February 2, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Presidency via AP)
“The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Alireza Tangsiri, who directly commanded the closure of the Strait of Hormuz – one of the world’s most critical energy chokepoints – became the target of an attack overnight, along with his senior operational leadership, including heads of intelligence and operations, in a secret Navy command center,” the official noted. “This targeted attack was based on US and Israeli intelligence and continues to demonstrate the depth of its penetration.”
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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz at the Ministry of National Defense, Athens, January 20, 2026. (Nick Paleologos/SOOC/AFP via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump launched the controversial war against Iran together with Israel almost four weeks ago.
“The Iranian negotiators are very different and ‘strange’. They ‘beg’ us to make a deal, which they should do because they have been militarily destroyed, without any chance of a comeback, and yet they publicly declare that they are only ‘looking at our proposal’. WRONG!!!” Trump declared Truth Social on Thursday morning after.
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President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upon his arrival at the White House on September 29, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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“They better get serious soon, before it’s too late, because once that happens, there’s no going back, and it won’t be pretty!” he warned.
