Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

July 3, 2026 4:13 PM

Iran’s slain leader Khamenei laid in state in Tehran for week of mass funeral events

The body of Iran's slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was lying in state in a vast hall in Tehran on Friday as clerics, officials, foreign dignitaries and other mourners paid their respects after his 37-year rule. Iran is staging a week of mass funeral processions for Khamenei — killed in February by U.S. and Israeli airstrikes at the start of a four-month war — in a show of public devotion to the Islamic Republic's theocratic state and revolutionary fire. Khamenei's body was expe...

May 12, 2026 3:55 PM

Iran now defines Strait of Hormuz as far larger zone, IRGC officer says

Iran has expanded its definition of the Strait of Hormuz into a "vast operational area" far wider than before the Iran war, according to a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy. The strait is no longer viewed as a narrow stretch around a handful of islands but instead has been greatly enlarged in scope and military significance, said Mohammad Akbarzadeh, deputy political director of the IRGC Navy, the state-affiliated Fars news agency reported on Tuesday. "In the ...

March 17, 2026 4:43 PM

Israel’s Katz says Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani killed, Tehran strikes Gulf neighbours

Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday the Israeli military had killed Iran's security chief and the head of its Basij militia in airstrikes overnight, and Tehran kept up attacks against Gulf neighbours that have pushed up energy prices. Katz said in a statement he had been informed by the military that Iran's security chief Ali Larijani had been killed. Iranian state media published a handwritten note by Larijani commemorating Iranian sailors killed in a U.S. attack whose funeral was ex...

March 17, 2026 3:35 PM

Israeli military strike targeted Iran’s security chief Larijani, fate unclear, officials say

Israel's military has targeted Iran's security chief Ali Larijani, four Israeli officials said, adding that it was not immediately clear whether he was killed or injured. Larijani was one of the targets of strikes carried out by the Israeli military last night across Iran, the officials told Reuters. Iran has not yet commented on the report. If his death is confirmed, he would be the most senior Iranian official to be killed after the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who died on the fir...

January 30, 2026 10:37 AM

EU designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organisation in policy shift

European Union foreign ministers on Thursday agreed to include the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the bloc's list of terrorist organisations, putting the powerful guards in a category similar to that of Islamic State and al Qaeda and marking a symbolic shift in Europe's approach to Iran's leadership. "Repression cannot go unanswered," European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas wrote on social media platform X. "Any regime that kills thousands of its own people is working toward i...

September 16, 2024 5:03 PM

Iran vows response to deadly attack on consulate in Damascus

In the aftermath of a devastating attack on Iran's consulate in Damascus, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has confirmed the tragic loss of seven of its officials, including senior commanders Mohammed Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, CNN reported. The attack, which rocked the Syrian capital, has left Iran reeling and vowing a robust response. According to an official statement from the IRGC, the slain commanders were among those who perished in the assault. Haji Rahimi, de...