00:00And as the war continues now, an Israeli official has claimed that the commander of the IRGC Navy, Ali Reza
00:10Tangsiri, was killed in a strike in Bandar Abbas.
00:15There has been no comment from Iran yet or from the Israeli military so far on this strike that has
00:22been claimed by the Israeli officials.
00:25I'm going back on this story to Ashraf Vani.
00:28Ashraf, Israeli officials, civilian officials claiming that the commander of the IRGC Navy, Ali Reza Tangsiri, was killed in a
00:37strike in Bandar Abbas.
00:38But we do not have a confirmation so far or a comment so far from Iran or the Israeli military.
00:44What are you picking up when it comes to the attacks and as Donald Trump has been saying, the wiping
00:52off of the leadership in Iran?
00:55Yes, it is a strategic operation which was carried last year in 2025 when 12-day war happened between the
01:04Iran and Israel and America.
01:06Then this time we have also seen that the war was started with the same assassination process and most of
01:13the not only the senior political leaders including the supreme leader of Iran were assassinated.
01:18But also the number of IRGC commanders, their members that we see in the second attacks, Ali Larjani who was
01:29the chief of the Security Council and also the intelligence chiefs and other top army brass of the Iranian army
01:40has been already assassinated by Israel in different operations.
01:44Probably this may be there may be some kind of weight in this claim, but as you said so far,
01:49neither the spokesman of the Israeli army has confirmed it nor the Iranian have confirmed it.
01:56But first of all, the confirmation will come up from the Israel because Israel has a kind of an advantage
02:03in these kind of assassinations.
02:05Their strikes are very precise. They have the flow of the intelligence agencies where the leadership is hiding, where the
02:14commanders hide, where they reside.
02:15They are tracking each and every movement of any individual in their enemy countries including Iran.
02:21And there could be the dispossibility that this naval commander may have been assassinated.
02:27But as far as this process is going on, we have not seen any let off from the Israel in
02:34this assassination process including here in the Lebanon where not only the Hezbollah commanders but also Hamas commanders and all
02:41these four commanders are being assassinated by Israel.
02:43All right. Thank you very much for that report. Ashraf Vani joining us live from Beirut from southern Lebanon.
02:52Stay safe there. Ashraf Vani, thank you very much for joining us.
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