Posted on 03/20/2026 10:35:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesperson has been killed in overnight strikes carried out jointly by the United States and Israel, the IRGC said, the latest in a mounting toll of senior officials assassinated since the war began.
Ali Mohammad Naini, a 68-year-old brigadier general who took up the IRGC spokesman role in 2024, “was martyred in the criminal cowardly terrorist attack by the American-Zionist side at dawn”, the IRGC said in a statement on Friday.
His death came just hours after he appeared on national television to insist that Iran retained full capacity to manufacture missiles, even under wartime conditions.
“Our missile industry deserves a perfect score … and there is no concern in this regard, because even under wartime conditions we continue missile production,” Naini was quoted by the Fars news agency as saying.
On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “Iran no longer has the capacity to enrich uranium and manufacture ballistic missiles”.
The Israeli army said on Friday that it was carrying out strikes across eastern Tehran, as the country marks the Persian New Year, Nowruz, which this year coincides with Eid al-Fitr.
Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Vall, reporting from Tehran, described the mood in the capital as “hushed”, with none of the customary festivities visible on the streets.
Naini’s killing is the latest in a string of high-profile assassinations that have gutted Iran’s establishment in less than three weeks.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the opening hours of the joint US-Israeli military campaign on February 28. He has since been replaced by his son, Mojtaba Khamenei.
Earlier this week, Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and one of the most influential figures in Iran’s establishment, was killed in a strike along with his son and several aides.
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Iran may never surrender but at some point there will be factions of the IRGC turning on one another....hopefully sooner rather than later...
Israel has to keep the eye on the prize, just keep targeting the big fish til here is no more big fish to off
Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader; his death was confirmed by Iranian government reporting on March 1 after an attack on February 28.
Ali Shamkhani, principal security adviser.
Mohammad Pakpour, IRGC commander.
Abdolrahim Mousavi, chief of staff.
Aziz Nasirzadeh, defense minister.
Mohammad Shirazi, military secretary.
Ali Asghar Hejazi, military intelligence head.
Hossein Jabalelian, chair of SPND.
Reza Mozari-Nia, former SPND chair.
Hasan Darehi, chief of logistics and industrial research.
Gholamreza Reian, police intelligence director.
Bahram Haseini Lagh, head of plans and operations.
Hamid Ibn al-Re, reported killed on March 3.
Reza Khazaei, IRGC Quds Force figure.
Majidini, senior financial official, killed on March 8 in Beirut.
Ali Reza Bi-Azar, head of Lebanon Corps intelligence.
Ahmad Rasouli, head of Palestine Corps intelligence.
Hossein Ahmadlou, intelligence officer.
Abuhar Mohadi, IRGC missile division commander within Hezbollah.
Ali Larijani, reported killed on March 17; some reports described him as a top security official.
Gholamreza Soleimani, Basij commander.
Esmail Khatib, intelligence minister, reported killed on March 18.
Iran may never surrender but at some point there will be factions of the IRGC turning on one another....hopefully sooner rather than later...
Killing 30,000 - 50,000 of their own people will probably make it happen sooner rather than later.
Golly gosh... that really is just too bad...
Applications now being taken for New Spokesman. Competitive pay, rapid martyrdom, instant virgins.
Those people are crazy.
Regards,
As a result, the real power in Iran is held be a relatively tiny pool of people who are difficult if not impossible to replace because they have suppressed and eliminated any potential qualified leaders and destroyed any line of succession. The guys who are being killed have few capable replacemetns
Old, like Congress.
Schadenfreude
Ours apparently does also.
Wut? Baghdad Bob got it?
Amazing.
Iran still has no water. This can not be ignored and underestimated. I am a manufacturing engineer in aerospace and I have to look at every possible scenario for everything I do. Trump has smarter people than me advising him. But I hope someone advises him what a tactical advantage it is that the mullahs depleted their water. You can nuke a country, bomb a country, invade a country, but if they don’t have water, the people surrender. Worst feeling in the world is dehydration.
RE: Baghdad Bob got it?
The one who got it was Tehran Tim ( my monicker ).
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, known as “Baghdad Bob,” disappeared from the public eye after the 2003 Iraq invasion. Following his brief detention and release by U.S. forces, reports indicated he lived in the United Arab Emirates as of 2008, with later reports suggesting he may retired in Qatar. He was not charged for his role as Iraqi spokesman.
Maybe he can still speak for the cardboard Ayatollah, even though he is dead. They don’t seem to worry so much about death.
The rats are leaving the ship. either voluntarily or in pine boxes. However, the option for mercy is rapidly disappearing. That might look those Iranian ‘brothers’ squarely in the eyes when they are condemned to death. Live by the rope. Die by the rope.
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