{"id":6435,"date":"2026-03-26T16:57:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gwadarnews.com\/?p=6435"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:58:25","slug":"us-israel-confirm-death-of-iranian-irgc-naval-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gwadarnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/us-israel-confirm-death-of-iranian-irgc-naval-commander\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Israel &#8216;confirm&#8217; death of Iranian IRGC naval commander"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United States and Israel on Thursday confirmed the death of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps &#8211; Navy commander Admiral Alireza Tangsiri in an airstrike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The death of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps &#8211; Navy (IRGC-N) commander, Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, from an Israeli airstrike makes the region safer,&#8221; said a statement on X from US Central Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement further added that &#8220;Tangsiri had commanded the IRGC-N for eight years, during which time the IRGC harassed thousands of innocent merchant mariners, attacked hundreds of vessels with one-way attack drones and missiles, and killed countless innocent civilians.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He was designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Treasury in June 2019, with additional secondary sanctions added in 2024 related to drone development,&#8221; the statement continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>The United States and Israel on Thursday confirmed the death of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps &#8211; Navy commander Admiral Alireza Tangsiri in an airstrike. &#8220;The death of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps &#8211; Navy (IRGC-N) commander, Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, from an Israeli airstrike makes the region safer,&#8221; said a statement on X from &hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwadarnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwadarnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwadarnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwadarnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwadarnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gwadarnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6438,"href":"https:\/\/gwadarnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions\/6438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwadarnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwadarnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwadarnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwadarnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}