“Proof that picking a fight with the West pays off”: Iranian Alizera Tangsiri managed to rise to commander who decides on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz

“If the Americans attack us, we will pursue them into the Gulf of Mexico.” This is what it sounded like from Iran in 2007. The man who said that was still a little commander at the time. But his big mouth appealed to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This prepared Alireza Tangsiri (62) for the moment when the war actually came – and experts now consider his power greater than that of Mojtaba, the son who succeeded Khamenei.

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