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Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-903217
How Israel's Navy Wages War with Iran and Hizbullah
(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - On March 26, the IDF said that naval intelligence had assisted with assassinating Iranian Naval Chief Alireza Tangsiri in the port city of Bandar Abbas, eliminating two key Iranian naval cruise missile production sites in Tehran, and Iranian sites related to submarines and other underwater threats. Israel also continued to provide intelligence assistance to the U.S. regarding the Strait of Hormuz. On April 16, the navy said it had provided critical intelligence for 154 attacks during the early 2026 war with Iran and Hizbullah. 95 of these attacks were against Iran; of those, 68 were undertaken by U.S. forces but were entirely based on Israeli naval intelligence. The navy also revealed it had been involved in eliminating five senior IRGC Quds Force liaison officials (who were working with Hizbullah) in an attack on the Ramada Hotel in Beirut on March 8. The five were top commanders involved with Hizbullah intelligence and terrorist financing. IDF intelligence wanted to utilize the navy's precision capacities to avoid any collateral harm to the large number of diplomats, media, and civilians in the hotel. For this operation and others, the navy is unique in its ability to operate in or near hostile territory for longer periods than other arms of the military. In another incident, the navy targeted the number two commander for Hizbullah's northern command at his mobile headquarters. On June 10, 2025, the Post reported that two Israeli naval missile boats fired two long-range precision missiles from hundreds of km. away at the Houthi port of Hodeidah.