IRAN’S Navy chief and the mastermind of Tehran’s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz has reportedly been killed in an Israeli strike.
Alireza Tangsiri, 64, a key figure in maintaining control over the key waterway, was blitzed at a nearby port city, an Israeli official said.
The source told The Jerusalem Post that the Navy leader was killed in Bandar Abbas – located on Iran’s coast with the trade artery.
The chief’s assassination marks the latest blow to the reeling regime amid the US-Israeli campaign.
Following the death of former Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28 and the outbreak of war, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s forces have wiped out a spate of top mullahs.
Earlier this month, Iran’s “stand-in” leader and security chief Ali Larijani was killed in a targeted airstrike.
The mastermind of the brutal January protests crackdown, the 67-year-old war understood to have assumed command of military operations following the death of Khamenei.
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