Iran’s Revolutionary Guard reported this Friday the death of its spokesman, Brigadier General Ali Mohamad Naini, in the latest case of a senior Iranian official killed in the .
The elite military body described Naini’s death as “a treacherous terrorist act on the eve of the last day of Ramadan,” according to a statement reported by local media.
Naini was the deputy director and spokesperson of the Public Relations Office of the Revolutionary Guard. The death of the soldier comes after the deaths this week of the Minister of Intelligence, Ismail Jatib, and the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Lariyani, the most relevant political figure in the country until his death.
Third week of bombings on Tehran
In this campaign of assassinations, the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, also died on the first day of the war, and senior military officials such as the commander in chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, General Mohamad Pakpur, and the chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, General Abdorrahim Mousavi.
The war – illegal and without providing evidence for its accusations – started by the US and Israel against Iran is now in its third week with continuous bombings against Iranian territory, especially in Tehran, which has responded with attacks on US and energy facilities in the region and with the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, essential for the supply of crude oil.
Iran no longer provides data on the number of deaths on its territory in the conflict. The last official figure was published on March 5 and stood at 1,230. However, the US-based opposition NGO HRANA puts the death toll at 3,134.
