US orders authorities workers to go away Saudi Arabia

Iran names new supreme chief

Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei because the nation’s new supreme chief following the killing of his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli strikes, the state-run media introduced early Monday.

He was chosen by Iran’s Meeting of Specialists, an 88-member physique of elected senior clerics tasked with selecting the supreme chief.

Mojtaba, a mid-ranking cleric with shut ties to the highly effective Revolutionary Guards, had lengthy been considered by components of Iran’s ruling institution as a possible successor to his father, who was killed after the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran on 28 February.

Donald Trump has said a decision on when to end the war with Iran will be a “mutual” one he’ll make together with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Times of Israel is reporting.

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It said Trump also claimed in a brief telephone interview on Sunday that Iran would have destroyed Israel if he and Netanyahu had not been around, quoting the US president as saying:

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Iran was going to destroy Israel and everything else around it … We’ve worked together. We’ve destroyed a country that wanted to destroy Israel.

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Trump was asked whether he alone would decide when the war with Iran ends or if Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, would also have a say. Trump responded:

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I think it’s mutual … a little bit. We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account.

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The report said that when Trump was asked whether Israel could continue the war against Iran even after the US decided to halt its strikes, he said he declined to entertain the possibility before adding: “I don’t think it’s going to be necessary.”

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The US state department has ordered all non-emergency government employees and their families to leave Saudi Arabia “due to safety risks”.

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The US embassy in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, conveyed the order in a post on X.

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Iran fired its first missiles towards Israel on Monday after the appointment of Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, state broadcaster Irib said.

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“Iran fires first wave of missiles under Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei towards occupied territories,” it said on its Telegram channel, cited by the AFP news agency.

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Irib posted a picture of a projectile bearing the slogan “At Your Command, Sayyid Mojtaba”, a Shia religious reference.

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The second son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mojtaba Khamenei, has been chosen as the successor to Iran’s slain supreme leader.

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The clerical body responsible for selecting Iran’s highest authority announced the decision on Sunday and called on Iranians to rally behind him and preserve national unity.

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But Donald Trump has already said Khamenei would be an “unacceptable” choice, while Israel said it would pursue Iran’s next supreme leader.

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Mojtaba Khamenei is a 56-year-old cleric who has never held elected office or formally occupied a senior position in the Iranian government.

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He has spent much of his life at the centre of Iranian power while mainly staying out of public view.

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Khamenei was born in 1969 within the north-eastern metropolis of Mashhad, and was raised throughout the political and clerical world that emerged after the 1979 revolution. Because the Guardian’s Lorenzo Tondo has additionally written:

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As a younger man he studied theology within the seminaries of Qom and reportedly took half within the remaining levels of the Iran-Iraq struggle.

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In contrast to many figures in Iran’s management, Khamenei by no means pursued elected workplace or a outstanding authorities function. As an alternative, he steadily grew to become an influential presence inside his father’s workplace, the place he was extensively seen as a part of a small circle managing political entry to the supreme chief.

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Over time he cultivated shut relationships with conservative clerics and components of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps … His identify surfaced publicly in the course of the disputed 2009 presidential election, when reformist figures accused him of enjoying a job in supporting the safety crackdown that adopted mass protests. However he has by no means mentioned the difficulty of succession publicly.

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Australia’s share market tumbled 3% this morning, wiping nearly $90bn from the value of the country’s biggest companies.

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The benchmark S&P/ASX200 fell to 8,576.2 points in early trading, after closing at 8,851 last week.

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Markets have started to expect the US will continue its war on Iran, which has restricted oil shipping and sent energy prices soaring. Global oil prices surged past US$100 a barrel this morning for the first time since 2022, now sitting at around US$106.

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Almost nowhere is safe, with 186 of Australia’s top 200 listed companies falling in value. The big banks are down 3% each, rare earths producers Iluka, Liontown and Lynas are down 5% or more and Qantas and Virgin Airlines are down 6% each.

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The only winners are adjacent to the energy sector: gas companies Santas, Beach and Woodside, petrol retailers Ampol and Viva and coalminers.

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Economic disruption from the war on Iran has also sent the US dollar surging in value, at the expense of the Australian dollar, which has fallen back below 70 US cents.

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More now on oil prices, which have passed $100 a barrel for the first time since 2022 as intensifying military aggression in the Middle East continues to wipe 20m barrels of oil a daily from the market.

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The price for a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, was at $107.97 after trading resumed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, up 16.5% from its Friday closing price of $92.69.

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West Texas Intermediate – the light crude oil produced in the US – was selling for about $106.22 a barrel, the AP is reporting. That is 16.9% higher than it closed on Friday at $90.90.

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The increases followed the US crude price jumping by 36% and Brent crude rising by 28% last week.

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Donald Trump has brushed aside concerns about the surging price of oil caused by the US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran, saying on his Truth Social platform:

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Short term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for U.S.A., and World, Safety and Peace.

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The US president added in capital letters: “Only fools would think differently.”

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There’s more on the surge in global oil prices in our latest full report here:

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Clashes broke out in eastern Lebanon on Monday after Israeli forces landed by helicopter on the Lebanese-Syrian border, state media reported.

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“Fierce clashes are taking place … towards the outskirts of the town of Nabi Sheet to repel Israeli forces that carried out a landing by helicopters on the heights of the eastern mountain range towards the Lebanese-Syrian border and are trying to advance,” Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.

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Agence France-Presse, citing the report, has now quoted two sources in Hezbollah as claiming on condition of anonymity that the group downed an Israeli helicopter in the area.

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Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader following the killing of his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli strikes, the state-run media announced. He was selected by Iran’s Assembly of Experts, an 88-member body of elected senior clerics tasked with choosing the supreme leader.

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Donald Trump warned that Iran’s new leader “is not going to last long” if the Iranians do not get his approval first for the theocratic posting. “He’s going to have to get approval from us,” the president told ABC News. “If he doesn’t get approval from us he’s not going to last long. We want to make sure that we don’t have to go back every 10 years, when you don’t have a president like me that’s not going to do it.”

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Another US military service member has died from wounds sustained during Iran’s initial counter-attack a week ago, bringing the number of US troops killed in action so far in the war with Iran to seven, the US military said on Sunday.

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Lebanon’s health ministry said the amount of people killed from Israeli airstrikes in the past week had increased to 394, including many women and children.

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The Iranian army said on Sunday that at ‌least 104 people were killed and 32 were wounded in an attack by ⁠the US on an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka’s coast last week.

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The IDF began “extensive strikes” against the “infrastructure” of the Iranian regime in Tehran and across other areas in Iran. Despite Israel saying it is striking military or “terror” targets in its war on Iran, many civilians have been killed in its attacks.

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Overnight strikes by the US and Israel hit five oil sites around Tehran, according to an Iran official. The official said that the five facilities “were damaged” but the “fire was brought under control”.

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Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the US-Israeli aerial bombardment of Iranian energy infrastructure sites marked a “dangerous new phase” of the conflict and amounted to a war crime.

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The Iran war has driven the price of crude oil above $100 per barrel for the first time since 2022.

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President Donald Trump brushed aside concerns about the surging price of oil caused by the US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran, even as the price of crude topped $100 per barrel for the first time since 2022.

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“Short term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for U.S.A., and World, Safety and Peace,” Trump wrote, adding in all caps that “only fools would think differently.”

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Global oil prices have breached the $100 (£74) a barrel mark for the first time since 2022 as escalating military aggression in the Middle East continues to wipe 20m barrels of oil from the market each day.

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Brent crude, the international benchmark, climbed 12.2% to $104.05 a barrel as the new week’s trading began in the Asia Pacific markets, the first time that market prices have soared above this key psychological threshold since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Prices rose after a weekend of escalating conflict in the Middle East, during which Kuwait’s national oil company announced a “precautionary” cut to its crude oil production.

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The oil price returned to triple digits after the highest weekly gains since the Covid-19 pandemic six years ago, and included a $10 increase in the price of US crude on Friday alone.

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Iran has largely halted oil and gas exports through strait of Hormuz

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“The grace period given by the market to the Trump administration expired at the end of last week,” according to Clayton Seigle, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader following the killing of his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli strikes, the state-run media announced early Monday.

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He was selected by Iran’s Assembly of Experts, an 88-member body of elected senior clerics tasked with choosing the supreme leader.

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Mojtaba, a mid-ranking cleric with close ties to the powerful Revolutionary Guards, had long been viewed by elements of Iran’s ruling establishment as a potential successor to his father, who was killed after the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran on 28 February.

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Another US military service member has died from wounds sustained during Iran’s initial counter-attack a week ago, bringing the number of US troops killed in action so far in the war with Iran to seven, the US military said on Sunday.

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“Last night, a US service member passed away from injuries received during the Iranian regime’s initial attacks across the Middle East. The service member was seriously wounded at the scene of an attack on US troops in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on March 1,” US Central Command said in a statement.

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“This is the seventh service member killed in action during Operation Epic Fury. Major combat operations continue. The identity of the fallen warrior will be withheld until 24 hours after next of kin notification,” the statement said.

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Donald Trump warned Sunday that Iran’s new leader “is not going to last long” if the Iranians do not get his approval first for the theocratic posting.

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“He’s going to have to get approval from us,” the president told ABC News. “If he doesn’t get approval from us he’s not going to last long. We want to make sure that we don’t have to go back every 10 years, when you don’t have a president like me that’s not going to do it.”

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He added: “I don’t want people to have to go back in five years and have to do the same thing again or worse let them have a nuclear weapon.”

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Asked on Sunday if he would accept someone with ties to the old regime, the president told the outlet, “I would, in order to choose a good leader I would, yeah, I would. There are numerous people that could qualify.”

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He also indicated that he would be willing to send US forces to secure an estimated 460kg of enriched uranium stockpile that Iran is believed to be holding that is considered by the IAEA to be out of regulatory control and could be buried in the Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow enrichment – bombed by the US in June.

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“Everything is on the table. Everything,” he said.

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He again refused to be drawn on how long the US-Israel actions could last. “I don’t know. I never predict,” he said. “All I can say is we are ahead of schedule both in terms of lethality and in terms of time”.

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He also dismissed reports of fractures within his Maga base over the US-Israel actions that to some critics appear to run counter to his no foreign wars, America First campaign promise.

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“It’s more popular than ever. It’s a very Maga thing what we’re doing. A very very Maga thing,” he told ABC. “Because otherwise we won’t have a country either, we’ll be hit. And Maga is all about saving America … I’m at the highest point I’ve ever been with Maga.”

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The IDF has said in the past hour that it begun “extensive strikes” against the “infrastructure” of the Iranian regime in Tehran and across other areas in Iran.

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Despite Israel saying it is striking military or “terror” targets in its war on Iran, many civilians have been killed in its attacks.

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Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the US-Israeli aerial bombardment of Iranian energy infrastructure sites marked a “dangerous new phase” of the conflict and amounted to a war crime.

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“By targeting fuel depots, the aggressors are releasing hazardous materials and toxic substances into the air, poisoning civilians, devastating the environment, and endangering lives on a massive scale,” he wrote on X.

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Baghaei added:

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The consequences of this environmental and humanitarian catastrophe will not be confined within Iran’s borders. These strikes constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide-all at once.

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Israeli military spokesperson Lt Col Nadav Shoshani told reporters the depots were used to fuel Iran’s war effort, including producing or storing propellant for ballistic missiles. “They are a legal military target,” he said.

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The body in charge of selecting a new Iranian supreme leader said it had reached a decision – although the name was not immediately announced.

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Israel threatened to “pursue every successor” to the former Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in joint US-Israeli airstrikes last weekend.

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Overnight strikes by the US and Israel hit five oil sites around Tehran, according to an Iran official. The official said that the five facilities “were damaged” but the “fire was brought under control”.

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Lebanon’s health ministry said the amount of people killed from Israeli airstrikes in the past week had increased to 394, including many women and children.

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An Israeli airstrike hit a hotel in Beirut on Sunday, killing at least four people, according to Lebanese health officials.

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Iran’s health ministry, meanwhile, said US and Israeli airstrikes had killed 200 children and about 200 women since the war started, and have damaged critical health infrastructure.

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Swiss ⁠defence minister Martin Pfister said the US and Israel have violated international law with their attacks ⁠on Iran.

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A wave of Iranian strikes hit the Gulf on Sunday, with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait all reporting attacks. In Bahrain, authorities announced that a desalination plant had been damaged in an Iranian attack.

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Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, reportedly threatened to increase attacks on American targets across the region in the face of ongoing Israeli and US airstrikes. He had earlier apologised to Iran’s neighbours for recent strikes against them and pledged to halt such strikes unless an attack on Iran originated from their soil.

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We can bring you a new statement from the UAE’s foreign ministry issued shortly after the country’s defence ministry said it was responding to incoming missile and drone threats from Iran.

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The United Arab Emirates affirms that it is acting in self-defense against the brutal and unjustified Iranian aggression, which included the launch of more than 1,400 ballistic missiles and drones targeting infrastructure and civilian sites, resulting in civilian casualties.

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This constitutes a grave violation of international law and the UN Charter, an infringement upon the UAE’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and a direct threat to its security and stability.

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The UAE emphasizes that it does not seek to be drawn into any conflict or escalation, but affirms its full right to take all necessary measures to protect its sovereignty, national security, and territorial integrity, and to ensure the safety and security of its citizens and residents, based on its right to self-defense in accordance with international law and the UN charter.

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The Israeli military said that two of its soldiers were killed in combat in southern Lebanon, marking its first fatalities since hostilities between Israel and Lebanon resumed last week

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Israel has issued evacuation orders for south Lebanon, stretching to about 27km into the country and has said it’s objective is to disarm Hezbollah.

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Earlier, Lebanon’s well being ministry stated 394 folks have been killed from Israeli airstrikes up to now week.

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The Council of the Arab League are holding an extraordinary meeting today to discuss the escalating crisis as Iran has attacked countries in the Gulf.

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The Arab League’s secretary-general accused Iran of being “reckless” over attacking member states ’reckless’ and urged Tehran to end what he called a “massive strategic mistake”.

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Speaking to other Arab foreign ministers, Ahmed Aboul Gheit said the strikes “cannot be justified under any pretext or excuse”, and repaid peace efforts by Gulf countries with “treacherous rockets and drone strikes”.

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Iran’s president apologised on Saturday to neighbouring states for its attacks on US facilities in those countries, in an attempt to cool anger across the Gulf. Still, he added that Iran may continue to respond to attacks when they originate from countries in the region.

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Plumes of black smoke are filling the skies in Tehran after Israel targeted oil storage facilities in the capital city of Tehran, which has a population of about 10 million.

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That marked the first time a civil industrial facility has been targeted in the war, the Associated Press reported, although US and Israeli strikes have damaged about 10,000 civilians structures across the country, according to the Iranian Red Crescent Society.

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In a post on social media, the group warned the public about the dangers from the fires at the oil facilities and encouraged the public to stay indoors where possible to avoid toxic pollutants.

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It said that locals shouldn’t go outside after rainfall over concerns about toxic acid rain and offered advice on gargling salty water if anyone had inhaled the oily soot particles emerging from the black smoke.

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Some experts have warned that rainfall could mix with the contaminated water and go into dams in and around Tehran, affecting the quality of drinking water for Iranians.

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Lebanon’s health ministry said the amount of people killed from Israeli airstrikes in the past week has increased to 394 (a death toll given on Saturday was 294).

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Among those killed in Israeli attacks were 83 children and 42 women, the country’s health minister said earlier today, according to the AFP news agency.

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Rakan Nassereddine also told reporters that nine rescue workers were among the dead. We have not been able to independently verify these figures.

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The body in charge of selecting a new supreme leader for Iran says it has reached a decision – although the name was not immediately announced.

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Israel has warned it would target any figure chosen to replace Ali Khamenei, who was killed in joint US-Israeli strikes on the first day of the war with Iran.

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“Probably the most appropriate candidate, permitted by the vast majority of the Meeting of Specialists, has been decided,” Mohsen Heydari, a member of the choice physique, stated on Sunday, in response to Iran’s ISNA information company.

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One other member, Mohammad Mehdi Mirbagheri, confirmed in a video carried by Iran’s Fars information company that “a agency opinion reflecting the bulk view has been reached”. You possibly can learn extra right here:

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Swiss ⁠defence minister Martin Pfister has said the US and Israel have violated international law with their attacks ⁠on Iran.

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“The Federal Council is of the opinion that the attack on Iran constitutes a violation of international law,” Pfister told Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung in an interview published today.

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“In our view it constitutes a violation on the prohibition of violence,” he added, calling on all parties involved to stop the attacks in order to protect civilians.

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“The Americans and Israel have attacked Iran from the air. In doing so, they, like Iran, violated international law,” Pfister said.

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There is consensus among legal experts the Guardian spoke to that the initial strikes on Iran by the US and Israel were unlawful.

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My colleague Julian Borger neatly sums up the opinion of many legal experts here when he says the attack on Iran is a clear violation of the UN charter, in any absence of any credible, imminent Iranian threat to the US.

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US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran have killed 200 children (under the age of 12) and about 200 women since the war started on 28 February, Hossein Kermanpour, the spokesperson for Iran’s health ministry, said in a post on X.

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He said they were among more than 1,200 people killed in the war. He said more than 10,000 civilians had been injured, including 1,400 women. Kermanpour said health infrastructure had been targeted in the US-Israeli attacks, with nine hospitals now out of service and 14 ambulances “destroyed”.

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We have not yet been able to independently verify any of these figures.

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The UK’s foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, has told the BBC that the government’s job is not to be “outsourcing our foreign policy”.

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Speaking on Laura Kuenssberg’s Sunday politics programme, Cooper said:

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It’s for the US president to decide what he thinks is in the US national interest, and that’s for him to do.

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But it is our job as the UK government to decide what’s in the UK national interest, and that doesn’t mean simply agreeing with other countries or outsourcing our foreign policy to other countries.

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Requested if the UK was at struggle, Cooper responded: “We’re offering defensive help in a battle, and that’s, I believe, the best way to explain it.”

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Her feedback adopted renewed criticism from the US president, Donald Trump, who has apparently advised the UK he doesn’t want its plane carriers and accused the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, of searching for to “be part of wars after we’ve already received”, in reference to reviews that the UK was making ready an plane provider in response to the escalating battle.

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Relations between Washington and London have sunk to a low level, with Trump strongly criticising Starmer for the dearth of rapid UK help for the US-Israeli strikes on Iran.

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Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has said his country will “not bow easily” to “bullying” and vowed to continue to respond against attacks.

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“When we are attacked, we have no choice but to respond. The more pressure they impose on us, the stronger our response will naturally be,” Pezeshkian said in video comments this morning.

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“Our Iran, our country, will not bow easily in the face of bullying, oppression or aggression – and it never has.”

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As we reported in an earlier post, the Iranian president on Saturday apologised to neighbouring Gulf countries hosting US military bases for attacks on their territory.

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However, after the statement provoked a backlash inside the country and the military appeared to contradict him, Pezeshkian said his remarks were “misinterpreted by the enemy that seeks to sow division with neighbours”.

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There is footage of a huge fire engulfing a tower in Kuwait city following drone strikes in the early hours of Sunday morning.

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It is reported to have broken out at a government site operated by the Public Institution for Social Security in Kuwait. In a social media post, the department said:

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The main building of the organization was targeted, resulting in material damage to the building.

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The fire appears to be under control now.

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As we hand over the blog to our colleagues in London, here’s a quick summary of today’s events as the conflict in the Middle East continues to escalate and the strikes show no sign of relenting.

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Here is what you need to know so far.

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A fresh wave of Iranian strikes hit the Gulf on Sunday, with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait all reporting new attacks. Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry reported intercepting 15 drones. In Bahrain, the strikes did “material damage” to a crucial desalination plant .

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Kuwait’s national oil company announced a “precautionary” cut to its crude oil production after the strikes. The military said fuel tanks at Kuwait’s international airport were targeted in a drone attack and two firefighters were killed.

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Overnight strikes by the US and Israel hit five oil sites around Tehran, according to an Iran official. The official said that the five facilities “were damaged” but the “fire was brought under control”.

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Donald Trump had said he is not interested in negotiating with Iran, raising the possibility that the Iran war would only end once Tehran no longer has a functioning military and its leadership is completely wiped out. But while Trump claimed the US and Israel had “decimated” the Iranian regime, he offered only a vague description of what he meant by Iran’s unconditional surrender.

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Trump left open the possibility of deploying American troops on the ground. The US president addressed reporters hours after travelling to Dover air force base in Delaware to attend the transfer of the bodies of six US service members killed in the opening days of his war against Iran.

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A majority consensus has almost been reached by the clerical body that will appoint the successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and become Iran’s next supreme leader, according to reports. Israel’s military said it would continue to pursue any successor to Khamenei.

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Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said his country “will be forced to respond” to any attack or invasion attempt from a neighbouring country. His comments came after a backlash by hardliners and within Iranian military ranks after the president appeared to apologise to neighbouring Gulf countries attacked by Iran as they targeted US military bases. Pezeshkian said his comments had been “misinterpreted by the enemy”.

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At least 16 were killed in Lebanon after Israeli renewed its assault on Beirut and southern Lebanon. Four were killed in a blast on a hotel in Beirut and 12 were killed in strikes on southern Lebanon as Israel said it was targeting “key commanders” in the IGRC’s Quds Force foreign operations arm.

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In a post on social media, Trump renewed his criticism of the UK’s lack of immediate support for US-Israeli strikes on Iran, and claimed Downing Street was now “giving serious thought” to sending two aircraft carriers to the region. “That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer – But we will remember,” the US president wrote.

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Trump has warned in a Truth Social post that more Iranian officials will be targeted, saying: “Today Iran will be hit very hard!”.

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China’s foreign minister says Iran war ‘should never have happened’. Wang warned that the US-Israel push for regime change in Iran would “find no popular support” and said “the world cannot return to the law of the jungle”.

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The Israeli military warned it would continue pursuing every successor of Iran’s next supreme leader.

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In a post on X in Farsi, the Israeli military said it would also pursue every person who seeks to appoint a successor for slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, referring to the clerical body charged with selecting Iran’s next supreme leader.

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The comments came after Iranian news agency Mehr news reported that he clerical body that will choose Iran’s next supreme leader has more or less reached a majority consensus.

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War in the Middle East “should never have happened”, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi has declared, even as he struck a more conciliatory tone with the US ahead of a highly anticipated visit by Donald Trump.

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Regime change, a key stated aim of the US president as the US and Israel continue to attack Iran, “will find no popular support”, Wang said on Sunday. “A strong fist does not mean strong reason. The world cannot return to the law of the jungle,” he added.

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Speaking on the sidelines of China’s annual parliamentary and political gatherings, known as the Two Sessions, the country’s top diplomat and foreign affairs official notably avoided directly criticising the US.

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Instead, Wang stressed that China was “committed to a spirit of mutual respect” in US-China relations. Recent talks between Trump and Xi Jinping, China’s president, were “heartening”, he said.

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Wang said that 2026 was a “big year for China-US relations” and that the two sides should “treat each other with sincerity and good faith”.

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A majority consensus over a successor to Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has more or less been reached, Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Mohammadmehdi Mirbaqeri said on Sunday, according to Mehr news agency.

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He said, though, that “some obstacles” need to be resolved regarding the process, according to the report.

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Iranian media said the body tasked with appointing Iran’s supreme leader had a minor disagreement over whether their final decision must follow an in-person meeting or instead be issued without adhering to this formality

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On Saturday, a senior cleric in the Assembly of Experts said its members would meet “within one day” to choose the leader.

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But Ayatollah Mohsen Heidari Alekasir, another member of the Assembly of Experts, said in a video released by Nournews on Sunday that an in-person meeting by the assembly for a final vote was not possible under current conditions.

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He said a candidate had been picked, based on the late supreme leader’s advice that Iran’s top leader should “be hated by the enemy” instead of praised by it.

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“Even the Great Satan [US] has talked about his identify,” Heidari Alekasir stated of the chosen successor, days after Trump stated that Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba, was an “unacceptable” alternative for him.

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The United States and Israel hit five oil facilities in overnight strikes in and near the Iranian capital, an official told state TV.

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“Last night, four oil depots and a petroleum products transport centre in Tehran and the Alborz were attacked by enemy aircraft,” the CEO of the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company Keramat Veyskarami told state TV.

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He added that the five facilities “were damaged” but the “fire was brought under control”.

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On Saturday, an Israeli attack hit an oil storage facility in Tehran.

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country “will be forced to respond” to any attack or invasion attempt from a neighbouring country, in remarks aired by state TV on Sunday.

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If Iran’s enemies “try to use any country to attack or invade our land, we will be forced to respond to that attack. Responding does not mean we have disputes with that country or wish to harm its people – we would be responding out of necessity,” said Pezeshkian.

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On Saturday the president apologised to neighbouring Gulf countries hosting US military bases for attacks on their territory.

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However, after the statement provoked a storm inside the country and the military appeared to contradict him, Pezeshkian said his remarks were “misinterpreted by the enemy that seeks to sow division with neighbours”.

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The Israeli military said it launched a wave of strikes “across Iran” on Sunday, targeting military sites.

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A military statement said it had “initiated a wave of strikes targeting the Iranian terror regime military infrastructure across Iran”.

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The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia said its air defence systems were intercepting missiles and drones launched from Iran on Sunday.

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“UAE air defences are currently responding to incoming missile and drone threats from Iran,” the defence ministry said in a post on X, adding sounds of explosions were a result of the systems “intercepting missiles and drones”.

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Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry reported intercepting 15 drones, including an attempted attack in the diplomatic quarter of the capital Riyadh.

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The attacks come after Iran’s president apologised to neighbouring states for its attacks on U.S. facilities in those countries, in an attempt to cool anger across the Gulf, but stirred criticism from hardliners at home.

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Kuwait authorities said two border guards were killed when the Gulf country was hit by a barrage of missiles and drones, compounding fears over energy supplies.

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Kuwait’s military said it was still intercepting “hostile missile and drone attacks” on Sunday.

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“Kuwaiti air defences are currently engaging hostile missile and drone attacks,” the military said in a post on X, adding that explosion sounds were the result of interceptions by air defence systems.

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Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait all reported new attacks on Sunday. Kuwait’s national oil company announced a “precautionary” cut to its crude production, as the country’s military said Sunday it had responded “to a wave of hostile drones that penetrated the country’s airspace”.

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Fuel tanks at Kuwait’s international airport were targeted in a drone attack, the military added. The official Kuwait News Agency said a fire at the airport was brought under control.

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It called the drone attack “a direct targeting of vital infrastructure”.

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The Kuwaiti interior ministry said two border guards “were martyred… while performing their national duty”, without elaborating. It was not clear whether their deaths were the result of an Iranian attack.

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Israel is renewing its assault on southern Lebanon, including targeting commanders of the Lebanese branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force in Beirut.

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The Israeli military said in a statement that it would “not allow Iranian terrorist elements to establish themselves in Lebanese territory”.

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The latest strikes in Lebanon followed an Israeli attack Saturday on an oil storage facility in Tehran , which sent up pillars of fire into the night sky.

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Hello and welcome to our coverage of the US-Israel war on Iran, a conflict that is rippling across the Middle East with devastating consequences as it enters its second week.

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US President Trump has remained sanguine about the prospects of the war, saying that Iran is being ‘decimated’ even as he has refused to rule out deploying US troops.

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Meanwhile China’s foreign minister Wang Yi has condemned the war, saying it never should have happened.

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If you are just tuning in, here is a quick recap of events.

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Donald Trump claimed the US and Israel had “decimated” the Iranian regime, but offered only a vague description of what he meant by his demand for an unconditional surrender. “It’s where they cry uncle, or when they can’t fight any long longer and there’s nobody around to cry uncle — that could happen too,” the US president said aboard Air Force One.

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Trump left open the possibility of deploying American troops on the ground. The US president addressed reporters hours after travelling to Dover air force base in Delaware to attend the so-called dignified transfer of six US service members killed in the opening days of his war against Iran.

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The US-Israel war on Iran “should never have happened”, China’s foreign minister said on Sunday. “The world cannot return to the law of the jungle,” Wang Yi told a press conference in Beijing, calling for an end to military operations.

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Iran can fight a war of this size and scale for “at least” another six months, a Revolutionary Guards official has claimed. The defiant statement was carried by the semi-official Fars news agency, which has links to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

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Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian previously apologised to neighbouring countries attacked by Iran. He also said Iran’s interim leadership council had approved that no attacks or missile strikes would be carried out against such countries unless an attack against Iran originated from them.

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Vast plumes of smoke and fire have been seen rising over the Tehran skyline overnight. The Israeli military said it struck “several fuel storage complexes” across the city.

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At least four people were killed after an Israeli strike on an apartment in the Ramada hotel building in central Beirut, Lebanon’s health ministry said. Ten people were injured. Israel said it conducted a “precise strike” on what it called “key commanders” in the IGRC’s Quds Force foreign operations arm.

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In a post on social media, Trump renewed his criticism of the UK’s lack of immediate support for US-Israeli strikes on Iran, and claimed Downing Street was now “giving serious thought” to sending two aircraft carriers to the region. “That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer – But we will remember,” the US president wrote.

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Trump says choice on ending struggle will likely be ‘mutual’ with Netanyahu

Donald Trump has stated a choice on when to finish the struggle with Iran will likely be a “mutual” one he’ll make along with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Occasions of Israel is reporting.

It stated Trump additionally claimed in a short phone interview on Sunday that Iran would have destroyed Israel if he and Netanyahu had not been round, quoting the US president as saying:

Iran was going to destroy Israel and all the things else round it … We’ve labored collectively. We’ve destroyed a rustic that wished to destroy Israel.

Trump was requested whether or not he alone would determine when the struggle with Iran ends or if Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, would even have a say. Trump responded:

I believe it’s mutual … somewhat bit. We’ve been speaking. I’ll decide on the proper time, however all the things’s going to be taken under consideration.

The report stated that when Trump was requested whether or not Israel may proceed the struggle in opposition to Iran even after the US determined to halt its strikes, he stated he declined to entertain the likelihood earlier than including: “I don’t assume it’s going to be mandatory.”

A newly emerged video seems to indicate a US airstrike focusing on a constructing on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval base adjoining to the elementary college in Minab the place Iranian state media says greater than 160 pupils have been killed on 28 February, CNN has reported.

The video, posted by the semi-official Iranian information company Mehr Information, is the primary to indicate missiles putting the world and provides to a physique of proof that seems to contradict latest claims by Donald Trump casting blame on Iran, the report says.

It continues:

Within the footage, filmed from a close-by development website, a munition in keeping with an American BGM or UGM-109 Tomahawk Land Assault Missile (TLAM) is seen earlier than it strikes a location contained in the IRGC base. The US Navy operates Tomahawks, launching them from its floor ships and submarines. Israel doesn’t function the Tomahawk missile, in response to consultants.

Because the digicam pans to the best, an enormous plume of smoke is seen from the path of the Shajareh Tayyiba elementary college in Minab. Dozens of individuals may be seen within the foreground working away from the strikes.

NEW: A newly surfaced video exhibits a munition in keeping with a US Tomahawk cruise missile putting a constructing on the IRGC naval base in Minab adjoining to the elementary college the place Iranian state media says greater than 160 pupils have been killed Feb. 28.
Donald Trump has blamed Iran… pic.twitter.com/J2UW5KVuLU

— Gianluca Mezzofiore (@GianlucaMezzo) March 8, 2026

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NEW: A newly surfaced video exhibits a munition in keeping with a US Tomahawk cruise missile putting a constructing on the IRGC naval base in Minab adjoining to the elementary college the place Iranian state media says greater than 160 pupils have been killed Feb. 28.
Donald Trump has blamed Iran… pic.twitter.com/J2UW5KVuLU

— Gianluca Mezzofiore (@GianlucaMezzo) March 8, 2026

The US state division has ordered all non-emergency authorities workers and their households to go away Saudi Arabia “on account of security dangers”.

The US embassy in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, conveyed the order in a put up on X.

Callum Jones

After the sharp fall of the ASX 200 in Sydney, main inventory markets throughout Asia are additionally underneath vital strain this morning. Japan’s Nikkei 225 is down 6.1%. South Korea’s Kospi is down 6%.

A weekend of escalating violence within the Center East intensified considerations round a sustained power provide crunch, boosting oil costs past $100 per barrel, to their highest ranges in 4 years.

Donald Trump, who carefully screens the motion of US inventory markets, has already commented on the newest surge of oil, describing it as “a really small value to pay” for security and peace, even because the fallout from the US-Israel struggle with Iran continues.

All eyes will likely be on Wall Avenue later. Pre-market buying and selling information places the Dow Jones industrial common, S&P 500 and tech-focused Nasdaq Composite to start out the week deep within the purple.

There’s extra on the oil value surge right here:

Iran fires missiles at Israel after new supreme chief chosen – report

Iran fired its first missiles in direction of Israel on Monday after the appointment of Iran’s new supreme chief, Mojtaba Khamenei, state broadcaster Irib stated.

“Iran fires first wave of missiles underneath Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei in direction of occupied territories,” it stated on its Telegram channel, cited by the AFP information company.

Irib posted an image of a projectile bearing the slogan “At Your Command, Sayyid Mojtaba”, a Shia spiritual reference.

Who’s Iran’s new supreme chief Mojtaba Khamenei?

The second son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mojtaba Khamenei, has been chosen because the successor to Iran’s slain supreme chief.

The clerical physique liable for deciding on Iran’s highest authority introduced the choice on Sunday and known as on Iranians to rally behind him and protect nationwide unity.

However Donald Trump has already stated Khamenei can be an “unacceptable” alternative, whereas Israel stated it will pursue Iran’s subsequent supreme chief.

Mojtaba Khamenei is a 56-year-old cleric who has by no means held elected workplace or formally occupied a senior place within the Iranian authorities.

He has spent a lot of his life on the centre of Iranian energy whereas primarily staying out of public view.

Mojtaba Khamenei, centre, in Tehran in 2019. {Photograph}: Vahid Salemi/AP

As a younger man he studied theology within the seminaries of Qom and reportedly took half within the remaining levels of the Iran-Iraq struggle.

In contrast to many figures in Iran’s management, Khamenei by no means pursued elected workplace or a outstanding authorities function. As an alternative, he steadily grew to become an influential presence inside his father’s workplace, the place he was extensively seen as a part of a small circle managing political entry to the supreme chief.

Over time he cultivated shut relationships with conservative clerics and components of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps … His identify surfaced publicly in the course of the disputed 2009 presidential election, when reformist figures accused him of enjoying a job in supporting the safety crackdown that adopted mass protests. However he has by no means mentioned the difficulty of succession publicly.

Australian share market plunges practically 3% as Iran battle triggers market wipeout

Luca Ittimani

Australia’s share market tumbled 3% this morning, wiping practically $90bn from the worth of the nation’s greatest corporations.

The benchmark S&P/ASX200 fell to eight,576.2 factors in early buying and selling, after closing at 8,851 final week.

Markets have began to anticipate the US will proceed its struggle on Iran, which has restricted oil transport and despatched power costs hovering. World oil costs surged previous US$100 a barrel this morning for the primary time since 2022, now sitting at round US$106.

Virtually nowhere is protected, with 186 of Australia’s prime 200 listed corporations falling in worth. The large banks are down 3% every, uncommon earths producers Iluka, Liontown and Lynas are down 5% or extra and Qantas and Virgin Airways are down 6% every.

The one winners are adjoining to the power sector: gasoline corporations Santas, Seaside and Woodside, petrol retailers Ampol and Viva and coalminers.

Financial disruption from the struggle on Iran has additionally despatched the US greenback surging in worth, on the expense of the Australian greenback, which has fallen again beneath 70 US cents.

South Korean and Japanese shares have reportedly fallen sharply amid the Center East disaster.

Extra on this quickly.

French president Emmanuel Macron will go to Cyprus on Monday, his workplace stated, as France deploys warships to the Mediterranean after a drone assault on the island per week in the past.

Macron will meet his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides and Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Paphos to indicate “solidarity” and element strikes to “strengthen safety round Cyprus and within the jap Mediterranean”, the Élysée Palace stated on Sunday.

Cyprus was focused final week by Iranian-made drones, main Macron to order France’s Charles de Gaulle plane provider to the Mediterranean and a frigate and air defence items to Cyprus

“This journey is meant to exhibit France’s solidarity with Cyprus, a member state of the European Union with which we have now a strategic partnership” and which was just lately hit “by a number of drones and missile strikes”, stated the Élysée, cited by Agence France-Presse.

Brent crude oil value surges to $108

Extra now on oil costs, which have handed $100 a barrel for the primary time since 2022 as intensifying army aggression within the Center East continues to wipe 20m barrels of oil a each day from the market.

The worth for a barrel of Brent crude, the worldwide commonplace, was at $107.97 after buying and selling resumed on the Chicago Mercantile Change, up 16.5% from its Friday closing value of $92.69.

West Texas Intermediate – the sunshine crude oil produced within the US – was promoting for about $106.22 a barrel, the AP is reporting. That’s 16.9% larger than it closed on Friday at $90.90.

The will increase adopted the US crude value leaping by 36% and Brent crude rising by 28% final week.

Donald Trump has brushed apart considerations in regards to the surging value of oil brought on by the US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran, saying on his Reality Social platform:

Brief time period oil costs, which is able to drop quickly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear menace is over, is a really small value to pay for U.S.A., and World, Security and Peace.

The US president added in capital letters: “Solely fools would assume otherwise.”

There’s extra on the surge in international oil costs in our newest full report right here:

Clashes in east Lebanon as Israeli forces land in space – report

Clashes broke out in jap Lebanon on Monday after Israeli forces landed by helicopter on the Lebanese-Syrian border, state media reported.

“Fierce clashes are happening … in direction of the outskirts of the city of Nabi Sheet to repel Israeli forces that carried out a touchdown by helicopters on the heights of the jap mountain vary in direction of the Lebanese-Syrian border and try to advance,” Lebanon’s state-run Nationwide Information Company reported.

Agence France-Presse, citing the report, has now quoted two sources in Hezbollah as claiming on situation of anonymity that the group downed an Israeli helicopter within the space.

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