Anonymous8 days ago
Israel announced on March 26, 2026, that an airstrike in Bandar Abbas killed Alireza Tangsiri, commander of the IRGC Navy, along with intelligence chief Behnam Rezaei and several senior aides. Tangsiri had overseen Iran's de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz—through which roughly 20% of global oil flows—since the U.S.-Israel military campaign against Iran began on February 28, and his death raises urgent questions about IRGC succession, the legality of targeted killings under international law, and whether the assassination will loosen or tighten Iran's grip on the world's most critical energy chokepoint.