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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
TEHRAN, January 31 (Xinhua) — Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Saturday strongly denied rumors that its naval commander Alireza Tangsiri had been killed.
A statement published on the official IRGC news portal, Sepah News, noted that the rumor was spread by the Israeli social media account Terror Alarm. The IRGC described the account as "an operational unit of the Mossad (Israeli intelligence service) in psychological warfare."
The statement added that the account had previously spread rumors related to security and military matters, claiming that the commander of the IRGC's Quds Force, Ismail Qaani, had been killed.
According to Sepah News, the spread of such rumors by Terror Alarm seems more understandable in the context of US President Donald Trump's psychological operation, which involves sending military naval groups to the West Asian region in recent days.
Also on Saturday, the IRGC Navy denied the rumor, saying no drone attacks had been carried out on its headquarters in Hormozgan province and no buildings associated with the IRGC forces had been destroyed, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported.
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