Iran’s IRGC says spokesman Ali Mohammad Naini killed in US-Israeli attack

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...