Israel says it killed Iran's IRGC spokesman in Tehran overnight strike
Xinhua | Updated: 2026-03-20 19:40
JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military said Friday that its air force, acting on intelligence, killed Ali Mohammad Naini, spokesperson and head of public relations for Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), in an overnight strike in Tehran.
In a statement, the military said that Naini had served as the IRGC's "main propagandist" for the past two years, accusing him of "disseminating the regime's terrorist propaganda to its proxies across the Middle East to influence and advance attacks against Israel on multiple fronts."
Iranian state media confirmed Naini's death. The semi-official Tasnim news agency said that he had served as IRGC spokesman since 2024 and "was martyred" in strikes it attributed to the United States and Israel.
