{"id":28816,"date":"2026-03-20T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/28816\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:00:07","slug":"israel-says-prominent-iranian-spokesperson-has-been-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/28816\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel says prominent Iranian spokesperson has been killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Friday morning announced that a prominent <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/nation-world\/who-is-leading-iran-strikes-raise-uncertainty-at-top-levels-of-regime\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/nation-world\/who-is-leading-iran-strikes-raise-uncertainty-at-top-levels-of-regime\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iranian spokesperson had been killed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cELIMINATED: Ali Mohammad Naini, the Spokesperson and Head of the Public Relations Array of the IRGC,\u201d the IDF wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>The military group said that Naini a major propagandist who had served in multiple public relations positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNaini served in several propaganda and public relations roles. In his role as the IRGC&#8217;s main propagandist for the past 2 years, he disseminated the regime&#8217;s terrorist propaganda to its proxies across the Middle East in order to influence and advance terror attacks against Israel,\u201d the post continued.<\/p>\n<p>He was reportedly killed by joint U.S. and Israeli airstrikes, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5793400-iran-spokesperson-ali-mohammad-naini-killed-israel-strikes\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5793400-iran-spokesperson-ali-mohammad-naini-killed-israel-strikes\/\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to The Hill newspaper.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The IRGC stated he \u201cwas martyred in the criminal cowardly terrorist attack by the American-Zionist side at dawn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Israel and the U.S. conducted joint airstrikes on Iran due to concerns that the country had missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Iran retaliated and as a result, several other countries were hit and several U.S. soldiers were killed or injured. Former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the strikes, resulting in his son replacing him. <\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump has not yet ruled out boots on the ground in Iran. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Friday morning announced that a prominent Iranian spokesperson had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[980,6816,34,424,37,49,12112,153],"class_list":{"0":"post-28816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-airstrikes","9":"tag-ali-mohammad-naini","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-irgc","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-middle-east","14":"tag-propaganda","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116263283744320737","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}