The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s navy was killed in an airstrike, Israel said on Thursday. Alireza Tangsiri’s death was confirmed by Admiral. Brad Cooper, head of US Central Command, said the killing put Iran’s navy on a path toward “irreversible decline.
” Weeks of US and Israeli strikes have destroyed most of its larger ships and stripped it of much of its ability to project power, he said. Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz said Tangsiri was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday night. The “precise and lethal operation” also killed other senior naval officers, Katz said.
“The man who was directly responsible for the terrorist operation of mining and blocking the Strait of Hormuz to shipping was blown up and eliminated.”