All articles tagged with #irgc navy
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Navy seized two container ships, MSC-Francesca and Epaminondas, in the Strait of Hormuz, accusing them of operating without permits and tampering with navigation; the move escalates US-Iran tensions amid a continuing naval blockade and stalled diplomacy as Trump extends the ceasefire and talks in Islamabad struggle.
Israel claims it killed Alireza Tangsiri, head of Iran's IRGC Navy who it says commanded the Strait of Hormuz blockade, and says another IRGC intelligence official Behnam Rezaei was eliminated; Iran has not commented. The US CENTCOM said the death makes the region safer and urged IRGC members to abandon posts, while oil prices rose amid the wider Iran‑Israel war.
Al Jazeera’s investigation into the Feb 28, 2026 attack on a girls’ school in Minab argues the Shajareh Tayyebeh school—once part of a military complex but civilian since 2016—was hit alongside the base while a nearby clinic remained intact. Satellite analysis traces the separate civilian school and clinic entrances, raising questions about whether the strike relied on outdated intelligence or was a deliberate targeting of civilian facilities, a pattern with deadly tolls in Iran and elsewhere; the attack killed about 165 people, mostly girls aged 7–12, and wounded 95, prompting scrutiny under international humanitarian law.