Hossein Mohebbi
Second Brigadier General and spokesman for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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Hossein Mohebbi announced on 27 September 2026 that the IRGC Navy had seized a US Navy MK 18 Mod 2 Kingfish underwater vehicle in the strait of Hormuz, and put its value at several million dollars. US Central Command denies it has lost control of any drone and calls the claim "clearly desperate". Iran has published no verified imagery.
Iran International reported on 4 April 2026 that he was named IRGC spokesman, replacing Ali-Mohammad Naeini, who was killed in an airstrike the month before. Abdollah Haji-Sadeghi, The Supreme Leader's envoy to the IRGC, signed the decree. Mehr News Agency styles him Second Brigadier General. The report names no earlier post.
He is the sole source for the Kingfish claim. The same claim in early September concerned an older US vehicle that CENTCOM said had malfunctioned.
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