IRGC says spokesman killed in US-Israeli air strike

Ali Mohammad Naini, the spokesman for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has been killed in a missile strike, the group confirmed in a statement to state media.

The IRGC is a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces that was formed following the 1979 Iranian revolution and answers directly to the supreme leader.

Naini has served as the official spokesperson for the IRGC since 2024 and was previously a professor of social sciences at Imam Hossein University.

This comes after Israel killed Iran’s intelligence minister, Esmail Khatib, on Wednesday.