The Israel Air Force over the weekend killed a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander responsible for managing the “commercial operations” of the terrorist organization’s oil revenues and bypassing international sanctions, the military said on Sunday.
Mohammad Reza Ashrafi Kahi, who was killed by an airstrike in Tehran on Friday, “managed the commercial operations of the Oil Headquarters, estimated at billions of dollars annually, and advanced the development of the IRGC’s military capabilities, as well as those of the Iranian terror regime’s proxies across the Middle East, foremost among them the Houthi terrorist regime, and the Hezbollah and Hamas terrorist organizations,” the IDF stated.
Oil revenues “fund the IRGC’s ballistic missile and UAV arrays, which are used to launch attacks toward the territory of the State of Israel and Gulf states, and to target oil infrastructure across the region,” according to the IDF.
The army noted that Ashrafi’s elimination followed the March 31 airstrike that killed Jamshid Eshaqi, who led a covert oil funding network supporting Iran’s regular military and the IRGC, “and constitutes an additional significant blow to the economic foundations of Iran’s security apparatus.
“The IDF will continue to operate against commanders and leaders of the Iranian terror regime wherever necessary,” the statement concluded.
U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox News on Sunday that if the Iranian regime doesn’t strike a deal by Tuesday, he would consider “blowing everything up and taking over the oil.”
“You’re going to see bridges and power plants dropping all over their country,” the president said in a conversation with Fox foreign correspondent Trey Yingst. Trump added that those who are negotiating on the behalf of the regime have been granted amnesty from elimination so they can continue the talks on Monday.
Yingst spoke with Trump shortly after the president had warned Tehran in a Truth Social post that “time is running out” to make a deal.
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah,” wrote Trump.
Trump later on Sunday apparently named the specific time by which the Iranians must open the Strait of Hormuz, extending his previous deadline to Tuesday night.
His 10-day ultimatum was set to expire Monday, but the cryptic post on Truth Social read, “Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!”
