The IDF confirms killing the spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Ali Mohammad Naini, in an airstrike in Iran.
The strike was carried out overnight by the Israeli Air Force, following intelligence provided by the Military Intelligence Directorate, the army says.
The military says Naini “served in several propaganda and public relations roles” over the years, including as “the IRGC’s main propagandist” for the past two.
“In his role, Naini disseminated the regime’s terrorist propaganda to its proxies across the Middle East in order to influence and advance terror attacks against the State of Israel from the different fronts,” the IDF says in a statement.
Iranian state media announced earlier that Naini had been killed in a strike.
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