🇮🇷Two Israeli officials say the move to close the Strait of Hormuz was initiated by then-commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, General Alireza Tangsiri. 🚢In the first 72 hours of the war, Iran announced it was closing the strait and warned it would attack tankers that tried to transit. 💣But behind the scenes, Tangsiri gave an order that dramatically escalated the situation: to deploy naval mines in the Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS), the main international shipping lane through the strait, Israeli and U.S. officials say. 🇮🇱Tangsiri was killed three weeks later in an Israeli airstrike in Bandar Abbas, Iran.
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