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Alireza Tangsiri
Iranian military officer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Commodore Alireza Tangsiri (Persian: علیرضا تنگسیری; born 1962) is an Iranian naval officer who serves as the commander of the IRGC Navy, appointed in 2018.[1][2]
Military career
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Tangsiri was a naval brigade commander during the Iran-Iraq War. He later headed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) 1st Naval District in Bandar Abbas.[3]
In September 2007, Tangsiri said that if the United States were "to clash with us, we would chase them even to the Gulf of Mexico."[4]
In 2013 he said, “the Israelis are Jews and the Americans are Christians. Our Quran stresses that they are not our friends.”[5]
In January 2016, after Iran detained 10 US Marines in the 2016 U.S.–Iran naval incident when they had engine failure and entered Iranian waters, Tangsiri described it as "U.S. forces surrendering to Iran." [4] On August 23, 2018, Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei promoted Tangsiri to commander of the IRGCN.[3]
In November 2021, Tangsiri said that the United States had "come to realize the Islamic Republic’s superiority at sea."[6] In February 2025, he unveiled Iran's first drone carrier, a commercial vessel that had been repurposed, which he described as the “largest naval military project” in the history of Iran.[7] In March 2025, Tangsiri warned that "If the enemies make a mistake, we will send them to the depths of hell," after U.S. President Donald Trump wrote Iran's supreme leader Khamenei urging Iran to reach a nuclear agreement with the U.S. or else face military action.[8]
In April 2025, Tangsiri said that the United States Navy was “incapable” of challenging Iran’s maritime dominance.[9]
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Political views
In 2022, he claimed that Saudi rulers descend from the Jews of Medina and Khaybar, enemies of the Prophet Muhammad.[10]
He has threatened American and British shipping in the Persian Gulf.[11]
U.S. sanctions
On 24 June 2019, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned him as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, freezing any of his U.S. assets and banning U.S. persons from doing business with him, under Executive Order 13224.[12] He was sanctioned with secondary sanctions in 2024 due to his position on the board of Paravar Pars Company, an Iranian military company which develops unmanned aerial vehicles and is sanctioned by the USA.[11]
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