Tehran, March 26 (ANI): Israeli media on Thursday reported that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy commander Alireza Tangsiri was killed in a strike in Bandar Abbas, citing an unnamed Israeli official. There was no immediate comment from Iran or from the Israeli military.
The Times of Israel said Tangsiri had been responsible for the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
The IRGC conducted a fresh round of military operations against US military installations across the region in retaliation for earlier airstrikes on infrastructure and civilian sites in northern Iran.
On Wednesday, the IRGC and the Iranian Army carried out multiple actions as part of Operation True Promise 4, launched after strikes by a US-Israeli coalition. Iranian forces have reportedly executed 82 waves of missile and drone attacks with advanced weaponry targeting Israeli military sites as well as US bases and assets across West Asia. Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Islamic Resistance in Iraq have also joined operations against what Iran calls external aggressors, inflicting heavy blows, the statement said.
The IRGC warned that US-Israeli forces should not contemplate a ground operation inside Iranian territory, saying: “Don’t send your children to hell with the deceit of Netanyahu and Trump. The invading soldiers will be deeply drowned and disappear in the million-strong sea of the Iranian nation.”
In an appeal aimed at the American public, the IRGC accused leaders such as Trump and Netanyahu of misleading their people, saying: “The truth of the war you must observe at American gas stations, on the streets of Iran, and in the skies of Tel Aviv and Haifa.”
According to a CBS report, the Pentagon is expected to deploy troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East. The report, citing a source familiar with planning, said elements of the division — including a command component and some ground forces — may be sent to the region. A possible ground operation on Kharg Island is also being considered.
The IRGC said precision-guided Emad, Qiam, Khorramshahr-4, and Qadr missiles struck more than 70 locations across Israel in the 81st wave of Operation True Promise 4, and claimed hits in Haifa, Dimona, Al-Khudriyya near Haifa, and areas north and south of Tel Aviv. (ANI)
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