Israel Eliminates Iran’s IRGC Navy Chief Responsible for Blocking Strait of Hormuz
Prime Minister Netanyahu: IRGC Naval Chief Tangsiri had “a great deal of blood on his hands” and “led the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.”
The naval chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who was directly responsible for the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz, has been eliminated in an Israeli strike, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed Thursday morning.
Anyone who plans attacks against Israel will be held accountable. pic.twitter.com/3YD21rbuzR
— Israeli Air Force (@IAFsite) March 26, 2026
Alireza Tangsiri, who held the rank of ‘Commodore’ in the U.S.-designated terrorist organization, was killed in a “precise and lethal operation” in the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, Israeli sources say.
“The commander of the navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Alireza Tangsiri, was killed in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas,” i24NEWS reported, quoting Israeli defense officials.
🔴Additionally, the IDF eliminated the Head of the IRGC Navy Intelligence Directorate, Behnam Rezaei.
Rezaei was responsible for intelligence collection on regional countries and led cooperation with various intelligence organizations. https://t.co/kOwOTB4iQT pic.twitter.com/PM5beFAdUr
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) March 26, 2026
Besides Tangsiri, other senior operatives of the IRGC’s Navy were eliminated in the strike, Israeli media reports suggest.
“Alongside Tangsiri, the IDF eliminated the Head of the IRGC Navy Intelligence Directorate, Behnam Rezaei,” the Israeli military said in a statement. “Rezaei served as the Head of the IRGC Navy Intelligence Directorate for a number of years and constituted a central knowledge authority in maritime intelligence.”
BREAKING: Initial reports of the elimination of the IRGC’s Navy Commander, Alireza Tangsiri, in a precision strike in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran. pic.twitter.com/Zked2H8IuQ
— Ariel Oseran أريئل أوسيران (@ariel_oseran) March 26, 2026
The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s busiest energy waterways and carries around a fifth of the global oil supply. Since the conflict began nearly four weeks ago, Iran has effectively closed the waterway, cutting it down to just 5 percent of its pre-war volume.
Iran has proven again in the last 48 hours that it is the enemy of civilization and a danger to the free world: targeting children, families, and the elderly with terror missiles, threatening Jerusalem’s holy sites, launching long-range missiles, and trying to blackmail the world… pic.twitter.com/pQaUW1oYgx
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) March 22, 2026
The Jerusalem Post reports:
A strike killed the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Navy, Alireza Tangsiri, in Bandar Abbas, adjacent to the Strait of Hormuz, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
Israeli defense sources have confirmed to the Post that the IDF was behind the strike that killed Tangsiri and added that the strike took place at 3 a.m local time.
The sources said that a number of Tangsiri’s top naval aides were killed in the same attack.
“We continue to strike the targets of the Iranian terror regime with force,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday afternoon.
Netanyahu said Tangsiri had “a great deal of blood on his hands” and was the person “who led the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.”
Earlier, Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed Tangsiri’s killing, calling him the official “directly responsible” for the terrorist operation of mining and blocking the Strait of Hormuz to shipping.
NEW: The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Navy, Alireza Tangsiri, who directly commanded the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, was targeted in a strike overnight, a senior Israeli official told Fox News.
At the time of the strike, Tangsiri was with his senior operational… pic.twitter.com/kXH15h7q7s
— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) March 26, 2026
Israel continues strikes on Iran’s weapons manufacturing facilities
A day after targeting Iran’s main weapons production facility, Israeli fighter jets struck weapon factories in capital Tehran and other cities. The strikes are aimed at degrading the regime’s ability launch missiles and drones across the region.
“The IDF has dismantled weapons production sites across Tehran and central Iran,” the Israeli military announced Thursday afternoon.
“Over the past day, more than 60 Israeli Air Force fighter jets, acting on IDF intelligence, completed several waves of strikes, during which more than 150 munitions were used for dismantling key weapons production sites across Tehran and central Iran,” the military added.
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Aaaand the hits just keep on coming!
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“Rezaei served as the Head of the IRGC Navy Intelligence Directorate for a number of years and constituted a central knowledge authority in maritime intelligence.”
Nothing says “intelligence” like being turned into a pancake by your enemy, especially after all your bosses met the same fate over the last couple of weeks.
You’d think he’d be a little better at disappearing.
I thought Bryan Mills killed him at the end of Taken 2… 🙂
one thing Im glad to see is that foxnews ran apiece on how we are getting low teched,,again as the iranians can fire off 20kusd drones and do the damage and we are spending millions usd to stop that
this is a must that we understand
the vietcong used to do somewhat the same
they would send in small numbers of men ,,,start some trouble and then we’d move huge numbers to retaliate…and they’d already be gone
Thankfully, SecDef Hesgeth and the Pentagon/DoD are well aware of this trend of enemies using low-cost drones and missiles to overwhelm missile defense systems that use much more expensive interceptors. They are laser-focused on procuring low-cost drones and missile interceptors.
From Google Gemini:
“American companies developing low-cost missile interceptors for the Pentagon include Long Wall (Cyclops), Mach Industries (Viper), and established giants like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon (RTX), and Northrop Grumman. These firms focus on reducing costs for the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) low-cost, modular interceptor programs to counter massive hypersonic/ballistic threats.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is spearheading a radical shift in U.S. military procurement known as the “Drone Dominance” program. This initiative is a direct response to the “cost asymmetry” problem where the U.S. has been forced to use multi-million dollar interceptors (like Patriots or SM-2s) to shoot down cheap enemy drones costing as little as $20,000.
Hegseth’s directive, backed by a $1 billion allocation often referred to as “President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill,” focuses on two main pillars:
Mass Production of Low-Cost Attack Drones: Flooding the zone with tens of thousands of American-made “kamikaze” drones.
Affordable Missile Interceptors: Fielding cheaper defensive systems to protect troops without bankrupting the defense budget.”
yep good stuff
The “official” name for the doctrine of emphasizing the use of low-cost drones/missiles, is “attritable mass.” Besides SecDef Hegseth, Google Gemini lists the following people as being major advocates for this doctrine:
Palmer Luckey (Founder, Anduril Industries); Christian Brose (Chief Strategy Officer, Anduril Industries); Elon Musk (CEO, Tesla/SpaceX); Eric DeMarco (CEO, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions); George Matus (Founder, Teal Drones); Katherine Boyle & David Ulevitch (Partners, Andreessen Horowitz / a16z); Dr. T.X. Hammes (Distinguished Research Fellow, National Defense University); Mark Schmidt (CEO, Cyberlux Corporation); Steve Feinberg (Deputy Secretary of Defense).
Trump should have thought of that BEFORE he attacked.
Just like Iraq, this war was lost the day we started it.
Except the Vietcong actually inflicted significant losses. Iran? Not so much.
There were ground troops for them to shoot at. Not the case so far here.
Actually, the focused infrared weapon seems to be dropping many out of the skies. That’s what needs to be mass produced.
not against that but these low cost drones have been on my radar for several years now and their attributes are obvious
Stick close to your desks
And never go to sea.
And you all may be the rulers
of the Queen’s Navy!
I grew so rich that I was sent
By a pocket borough into Parliament.
I always voted at my party’s call
And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
So when is the strait re opening and gas prices returning to pre war prices?
That is what matters.
The Democrats are gonna be mad that another of their heroes got waxed.
Speaking of which, has anyone seen Butz lately? Or did the Israelis get him?
Are you saying you want to see more of Butz?
I think he was scraping paint on that Iranian frigate that got torpedoed.
So, is the Strait still closed? Why is that? Can we not strike their shore-based weapons pretty danged easily?
I’m not pitching a fit. I would just like to know what the thinking is. A LOT of folks are thinking that opening the Strait is a victory condition, and are chafing at the current state of things, given how easily we’ve stomped so much else.
I read some stuff saying that the straits were kind of open or maybe more open.
As for striking it’s whack-a-mole again, Launchers in hidey holes popping out to launch or launching from within the hole. Also drones don’t need much infrastructure to launch. They’re small enough to launch from the back of a pickup truck. Iran has also been able to plant a few naval mines. Don’t know how many.
In order to open up the strait it maybe necessary to put boots on the ground along the strait to keep the area sanitized. That would not be good,
It’s less closed than being avoided until every Iranian speedboat and drone launcher can be neutralized. Oh, and our “allies” need to step up (apart from the ones who have). It’s mostly their oil supplies being affected.
The thinking is to destroy the “government” behind closing the strait, and not to pry it open in the middle of the conflict. Trying to force the opening will result in heavy mining by Iran which will be difficult and expensive to clear after the conflict ends.
The ideal situation is to reach a deal which removes the Mullahs and military from power with destroying oil infrastructure and without a military invasion. Notice how long it is taking to get 2500 Marines into position? If we’d wanted they could have been on the beaches within days…and we wouldn’t have announced their plan in advance. Ergo: we really don’t want to send them in if we can avoid it.
The Iranians, in my opinion are taking the approach the Japanese planned for the invasion of their homeland: reserve arms and troops and then make the invasions so horribly bloody that the Americans will make a negotiated settlement. Right now America is poking the bear and the bear is trying to lure us into its den.
The danger for Iran being that if they try for the Japanese defense, Trump may solve the problem like Truman did. I don’t think he’d go nuclear, but I think he might declare entire areas to be combatants and stop worrying about where bombs fell.
“We tried to be nice and send the Marines, now we’re just going to wave goodbye to Tehran from 10,000 feet.”
I wish Jimmy Kimmel would take over the currently vacant post.
I’m becoming concerned that Trump will not have anyone to negotiate with if this keeps up.
What’s not to love about this news?