Revolutionary Guard Spokesman Killed in Airstrike Targeting Tehran

Intelligence officials successful the U.S. and Israel often described him arsenic the “architect of the Iranian regime’s propaganda.” Public Domain

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has confirmed that its main spokesperson, Ali Mohammad Naeini, was killed successful an aboriginal Friday greeting airstrike. Iranian authorities media reported the decease of the 68-year-old authoritative pursuing a bid of strikes that IRGC officials characterized arsenic a “cowardly violent onslaught by American-Zionist forces.”

His decease marks the latest stroke successful a ‘Black Week’ for the Iranian leadership. Just this past Tuesday, March 17, the deaths of Ali Larijani (Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council) and Gholam-Reza Soleimani (Commander of the Basij militia) were besides confirmed.

The “voice” of the Revolutionary Guard

Naeini had served arsenic the nationalist look of the IRGC since July 2024. Intelligence officials successful the U.S. and Israel often described him arsenic the “architect of the Iranian regime’s propaganda,” liable for shaping the Revolutionary Guard’s intelligence operations and nationalist messaging.

While the nonstop determination of the onslaught has not been officially disclosed, reports bespeak that associated U.S.-Israeli forces person been targeting strategical sites successful Tehran and Karaj implicit the past respective hours.

Naeini’s last nationalist quality was connected Wednesday, March 18, during which helium issued a stern informing to Iran’s adversaries. He claimed that Friday—marking the Islamic New Year—would “burn the enemies.”

Furthermore, conscionable hours earlier his death, Naeini gave an interrogation to an Iranian paper refuting claims by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu regarding Iran’s rocket manufacturing capabilities.

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