Middle East crisis live: Trump says US making ‘major strides’ in Iran with operation ending ‘very soon’ | US-Israel war on Iran

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Asked again if Mojtaba Khamenei has a target on his back, Trump declines a second time:

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I don’t know want to say if he does or not, because that would be inappropriate.

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Asked if Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei has a target on his back, Trump says he was “disappointed”.

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I was disappointed because we think it’s going to lead to just more of the same problem for the country. So I was disappointed to see their choice.

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Asked about his previous comments that he had someone in mind to lead Iran, Trump says:

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I like the idea of internal and eternal.

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He adds:

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I would like to see people that are inside.

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They talk about the son of the shah [exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi], they talk about other people. But [he] hasn’t been there in many, many years.

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We have a formula that’s been very good so far, and I think it will continue to be good.

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Asked if he thought the war on Iran would end this week, Trump says: “No, but I think soon. Very soon.”

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said that any Arab or European country that expels Israeli and US ambassadors from its territory will be granted unrestricted passage through the strait of Hormuz starting on Tuesday.

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According to Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB, the IRGC said those countries would have the “full right and freedom” to transit the strategic waterway if they sever diplomatic ties with both Israel and the United States.

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Hundreds of ships remain anchored on both sides of the strategic waterway as oil and shipping markets watch for any sign that sailings might pick up through the narrow corridor. Roughly a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas typically flows through the strait.

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Donald Trump is speaking now.

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He says the US is “achieving major strides towards completing our military objective” in Iran.

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“Some people could say they’re pretty well complete,” he says.

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“We’ve wiped every single force in Iran out,” he says.

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The US knows all of the facilities where Iran manufactures drones “and they’re being hit one after another”, he says.

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More than 5,000 Iranian targets have been struck so far, Trump says, adding that the US could take out all its remaining targets “in one day”.

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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it has launched a broad wave of attacks against “targets of the Iranian terrorist regime in Tehran”.

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Donald Trump has also just given a “reason” for the US-Israeli assault on Tehran.

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I’ll give you the best reason of all. Within a week, they would’ve attacked us, 100%.

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They were ready. They had all these missiles, far more than anyone thought, and they were going to attack us. They were going to attack all of the Middle East and Israel, and if they had a nuclear weapon they would’ve used it on Israel, and this was going to be a major attack.

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A reminder that Trump has never provided any evidence for any of these claims that US-Israeli military action against Iran was “pre-emptive” in the face of imminent nuclear threat.

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Over the weekend my colleagues published this helpful explainer on Trump’s shifting rationale – from regime change to nuclear threat to Israeli intentions – for launching war on Iran:

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Donald Trump has just told House Republicans that the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran is a “short-term excursion”.

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Our country is doing really well. I mean, at a level that nobody thought. We took a little excursion because we felt like we had to do that to get rid of some evil. I think you’ll see it’s going to be a short-term excursion.

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We’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough. We go forward, more determined than ever to achieve ultimate victory that will end this long running danger once and for all.

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He calls Operation Epic Fury “one of the most complex and stunning operations ever conducted”.

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He says how much he loves the name, “even better than Midnight Hammer, where we knocked out [Iran’s] nuclear potential”.

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That was a big day, because if we didn’t do that they would’ve had a nuclear weapon within two weeks, and I think we’d be in a lot different situation.

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Trump has repeatedly claimed – without evidence – that Tehran was beginning to rebuild the nuclear program that he claimed had been “obliterated” by US strikes in June last year. He has used this claim as one justification for launching joint strikes on Tehran with Israel ten days ago.

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“The world respects us right now more than they have ever respected us,” Trump says, praising the US military as being a “military like no other”.

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He is also notably once again dismissive of the new supreme leader, saying that “nobody has any idea” who is going to run Iran, despite Mojtaba Khamenei being selected for the role.

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Their terrorist leaders are gone, or counting down the minutes until they will be gone. And now, nobody has any idea who the people are that are going to be the head of the country.

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As we’ve been reporting all day, Trump has repeatedly dismissed Khamenei as an unacceptable choice to lead Iran, and has insisted that he must play a role in choosing the country’s new leader. He has also implied that US and Israeli forces may target the late ayatollah’s son, telling ABC News over the weekend that “if he doesn’t get approval from us, he’s not going to last long”.

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Trump says that together with Israel, the US is “crushing the enemy”, reiterating that Iran’s military capabilities are being diminished.

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We will not relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated.

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Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian has told his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that Tehran is ready to form a joint team to investigate “allegations” of Iranian missile attacks on Turkey, Iranian media reports.

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As we reported earlier, Turkey said today that Nato air defences shot down an Iranian ballistic missile that had entered its airspace and warned that it would move against any such threats. The incident in southern Turkey marks the second intercepted missile from Iran in the last week.

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Five members of the Iranian women’s football team have been granted asylum in Australia, home affairs minister Tony Burke has confirmed.

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Burke said that the five women were welcome to stay in the country and its government had agreed to provide humanitarian visas.

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“I say to the other members of the team the same opportunity is there,” he told reporters in Brisbane.

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Earlier, Donald Trump said Australia was making “a terrible humanitarian mistake” by not accommodating the players in the country, before later praising prime minister Anthony Albanese for being “on it” and “doing a very good job” after they spoke on the phone about the matter.

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“Five have already been taken care of, and the rest are on their way,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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Here’s the story from my colleague Martin Farrer:

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Donald Trump also told CBS News that his administration is “thinking” of taking over the strait of Hormuz.

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The strait is one of the world’s most critical energy shipping routes, carrying roughly a fifth of global oil shipments. Commercial shipping through the waterway has effectively ground to a halt since the US-Israeli war on Iran began 10 days ago.

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Trump told CBS News that the strait of Hormuz is open but the White House is still “thinking about taking it over” and could do “a lot”.

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Iran has not closed the strait but has threatened to fire at any US or Israeli tankers that try to travel through.

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Vladimir Putin held a phone call with Donald Trump earlier today and shared his proposals, aimed at a quick settlement to the Iran war, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov has told reporters.

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“The Russian president expressed a number of considerations aimed at a speedy political and diplomatic resolution of the Iranian conflict,” he said.

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Ushakov also said that Trump offered his assessment of the conflict with Iran, but didn’t elaborate on what that assessment was.

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Donald Trump has claimed the war against Iran “is very complete” and that Washington was “very far ahead” of his initial four to five week estimated time frame.

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“I think the war is very complete, pretty much. They have no navy, no communications, they’ve got no air force,” the US president said in an interview with CBS News. He continued:

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Their missiles are down to a scatter. Their drones are being blown up all over the place, including their manufacturing of drones.

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If you look, they have nothing left. There’s nothing left in a military sense.

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Trump also said the US is “very far” ahead of his initial 4-5 week estimated time frame for the war.

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On Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, Trump told CBS News:

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I have no message for him. None, whatsoever.

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Trump said he has someone in mind to replace Khamenei, but did not elaborate.

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Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said earlier that, “Iran does not want to harm ordinary Americans who overwhelmingly voted to end involvement in costly foreign wars.”

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In his post on X, he added:

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Blame for surging gas prices, costlier mortgages, and pummeled 401(k)’s lies squarely with Israel and its dupes in Washington.

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In a prior post, Araghchi took further aim at the United States for destabilising oil prices with its strikes on Tehran.

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He branded the US military campaign “Operation Epic Mistake” (instead of “Operation Epic Fury”) and shared a screenshot of global oil prices.

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We know the US is plotting against our oil and nuclear sites in hopes of containing huge inflationary shock. Iran is fully prepared.

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And we, too, have many surprises in store.

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With oil prices soaring and stock markets falling, my colleague Luca Ittimani has this explainer on why the US-Israeli war on Iran has sparked fears of stagflation for the global economy:

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RAF fighter jets have carried out military action to defend the nations of Jordan and Bahrain overnight, the UK’s Ministry of Defence said earlier.

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The jets successfully took out an uncrewed aerial system “in defence of Jordan” and intercepted a drone heading in the direction of Bahrain, it said.

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The UK has also started conducting defensive flights in support of the United Arab Emirates, the ministry added.

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It also said that additional Wildcat helicopters have arrived in Cyprus after a British airbase there was hit by a drone attack last week.

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Turkey has summoned Iran’s ambassador after an Iranian ballistic missile entered Turkish airspace earlier.

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Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan urged Tehran to refrain from any actions that “cast a shadow over our thousand-year neighbourly and brotherly ties” saying it was continuing to take “extremely wrong and provocative steps” despite “sincere warnings” from Ankara.

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The ballistic missile was fired from Iran and entered Turkish airspace before being shot down by Nato in the eastern Mediterranean. Some debris from the missile fell in an empty field in Gaziantep.

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Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed 486 people, including dozens of children, Lebanese state news reported today, citing the country’s health ministry.

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Unicef, the UN’s children’s agency, said today that a “staggering” number of children have been killed in Israeli strikes on the country, with at least 83 children killed – more than 10 each day – and 254 wounded since 2 March.

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The figures “are a stark testament to the toll that conflict is taking on children”, the agency said. Unicef’s Middle East director Edouard Beigbeder told Sky News earlier:

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As military strikes continue across the country, children are being killed and injured at a horrifying rate, families are fleeing their homes in fear, and thousands of children are now sleeping in cold and overcrowded shelters.

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Further, more than 1,300 people have been injured since the Israeli attacks began on 2 March, after Hezbollah fired rockets towards northern Israel in response to repeated Israeli attacks and the assassination of Iran’s late supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

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At least 600,000 people have been displaced in the country since fighting escalated last week, sparking fears of a humanitarian catastrophe in Lebanon. In a statement today, the Lebanese president, Joseph Aoun, issued unusually fierce and direct criticism of Hezbollah for setting off a renewed Israeli offensive with a rocket barrage last week.

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He told senior European officials in a phone call today that Lebanon was trapped between an Israeli assault which “show no respect for the laws of war” and “an armed group operating outside the law in Lebanon which has no regard for the interests of Lebanon and the lives of its people”.

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In further comments, Donald Trump has said Mojtaba Khamenei selection as the the next supreme leader of Iran is a “big mistake”.

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He told NBC News:

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I think they made a big mistake. I don’t know if it’s going to last. I think they made a mistake.

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The US president has previously said the late ayatollah’s son would be an “unacceptable” choice (see here) and Israel vowed to target any successor (see here).

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Trump also said it’s “too soon to talk about” seizing Iran’s oil but added that he “doesn’t rule it out”.

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Mojtaba Khamenei has been chosen to replace his father as Iran’s supreme leader, while the country continues to be heavily bombarded by US and Israeli forces.

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In today’s edition of The Latest podcast, Lucy Hough speaks to diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour about concerns that the move could lead to a further escalation of war in the Middle East, after Donald Trump warned that Khamenei was an “unacceptable” choice.

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Defence and security editor

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Ukraine’s president has said he dispatched interceptor drones and operators to protect US bases in Jordan last week, one of 11 countries that had asked Kyiv for help as the US-Israeli war against Iran continued into its 10th day.

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview that he had responded to a US request for help in defending Jordan last week as Ukraine seeks to improve relations with Gulf and Middle Eastern countries coming under attack from Iran.

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Zelenskyy posted on social media that “there are 11 requests from countries neighbouring Iran, European states, and the US” and that some had been met with “concrete decisions and specific support”.

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Help for Jordan, where the US has maintained a sizeable presence at the Muwaffaq Salti airbase, was requested on Thursday, Zelenskyy told the New York Times. A Ukrainian team departed the next day.

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Satellite imagery indicates that the radar used by a US Thaad air defence system at the base in Jordan was damaged or even knocked out by Iranian attacks, one of several apparently hit across the region.

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Orysia Lutsevych, at the Chatham House thinktank, said Ukraine was “trying to show it is an asset, including to the US and other allies” by offering to share its war experience in exchange for help and goodwill.

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Zelenskyy also recognises that Iran and Russia are friendly, amid US reports that Moscow is sharing targeting information with Tehran. “If Russia sends intelligence to Iran – Ukraine will send specialists and interceptors to defend these bases and energy and water infrastructure,” Lutsevych added.

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Over the past week, the Ukrainian president has spoken to the leaders of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Jordan, according to Kyiv. “It is very important to coordinate for security both in Europe and in the Middle East,” Zelenskyy said after speaking to the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.

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Ukraine has faced near-nightly attacks from swarms of Shahed-136 drones since September 2024. Originally designed in Iran, the technology was transferred to Russia, allowing Moscow to make them in large numbers.

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Tackling them forced Kyiv to develop low-cost air defence capabilities to prevent large numbers of the delta-winged attack craft getting through, with interception rates of over 85% or 90%. On Saturday morning, Ukraine’s airforce reported stopping 453 out of 480 incoming drones.

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Here’s the full report:

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In that interview with the New York Post, Donald Trump said he was “not happy” with Mojtaba Khamenei being chosen as Iran’s new supreme leader.

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Asked about his plans for the late ayatollah’s son, Trump was coy, telling the paper:

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Not going to tell you. Not going to tell you. I’m not happy with him.

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It followed overt threats from the US president ahead of Khamenei’s election, after Trump made clear he considered him an “unacceptable” choice. On Sunday, he told ABC News that the new leader “is not going to last long” if “he doesn’t get approval from us”.

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Trump told Axios last week that “Khamenei’s son is a lightweight” and that he must be involved in the selection of the new supreme leader “like with Delcy [Rodriguez] in Venezuela”.

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Donald Trump has announced that he will hold a news conference at 5.30pm ET today from the ballroom at Trump National Doral Miami before he heads back to DC from Florida.

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As the US-Israeli war on Iran enters its second week, the president said in his post on Truth Social that there have been “many important meetings and phone calls taking place today”.

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This will be his first official press conference since the war began, and we’ll bring you all the key lines here later.

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  Turkey’s defence ministry on Monday said a ballistic missile fired from Iran was intercepted in Turkish airspace by Nato defence systems, in the second such incident in five days.

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  The UAE’s Ministry of Defence confirmed that it had detected 15 ballistic missiles today, destroying 12, while three fell into the sea. The ministry said it detected 18 drones, intercepting 17, with one crashing within UAE territory, BBC News reported earlier.

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  Qatar air defences intercepted 17 ballistic missiles and six drones on Monday, the Qatari ministry of defence said on X. The air attacks came from Iran, the ministry said.

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  Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his slain father Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, signalling that hardliners remain in charge.

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  Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson downplayed the likelihood of a ceasefire as long as attacks continue, Iran’s Student News Network reported on Monday, adding that Iran would continue to defend itself.

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  Fresh missile and drone strikes by Israel and Iran reverberated across the Middle East as the war entered its 10th day. The Israeli military said on Monday it had begun a “wide-scale wave of strikes” in Tehran, Isfahan and southern Iran after a man was killed in an airstrike fired at central Israel earlier. The Israeli military also said Monday that it had begun targeting Al-Qard Al-Hassan, a US-sanctioned financial organisation that Israel has accused of financing the Iran-backed Hezbollah, in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

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  Lebanon’s ministry of public health said Israeli forces killed two paramedics and injured six more in two separate airstrikes on Monday, the state-run National News Agency reports.

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  Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday said the Israeli military unlawfully fired white phosphorus munitions in the town of Yohmor in southern Lebanon. The highly toxic white phosphorus can be used by militaries to obscure operations and is not listed a chemical weapon under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), but use of it against humans in a civilian setting is considered a violation of Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCCW).

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  Cyprus will not engage in any military operations surrounding the Iran conflict but will focus on its humanitarian role, president Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday. It comes as Cyprus’s foreign minister said there are “questions” about the future of the UK’s military bases on the island after the drone strike last week.

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  Unicef, a UN agency, estimates that at least 83 children have been killed and 254 wounded in Lebanon since the start of the conflict – during which time an estimated 700,000 people – including around 200,000 children – have been displaced from their homes.

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  Residents in Tehran are still reeling from “apocalyptic” scenes unfolding across their city after airstrikes on oil depots over the weekend filled the sky with black smoke and covered the streets in soot. “The situation is so frightening it’s hard to describe,” one resident told the Guardian. “Smoke has covered the entire city. I have severe shortness of breath and burning in my eyes and throat, and many others feel the same. But people still have to go outside because they have no choice. Many places reopened today, but closed again because it’s impossible to stay outdoors.”

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  EU and Middle Eastern leaders are holding talks on how Europe can better support countries most affected by the US-Israeli war on Iran and on bringing the conflict to an end. The president of the European Council, António Costa, and European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said they had invited Middle Eastern leaders to take part in a video conference on Monday.

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  The war has sent oil prices surging and Asian stock markets into a nosedive. Global oil prices rose past $100 (£74) a barrel for the first time since 2022 as fallout from the war continues to wipe 20m barrels of oil from the market each day.

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In an interview with the New York Post, Donald Trump said today that he’s “nowhere near” deciding whether to send US troops into Iran to secure the stockpile of highly enriched uranium there.

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“We haven’t made any decision on that. We’re nowhere near it,” Trump said when asked about reported discussions between Israel and the United States on possibly deploying special forces to Isfahan to seize and secure the material.

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Trump claimed last month – without evidence – that Tehran was beginning to rebuild the nuclear program that he claimed had been “obliterated” by US strikes in June last year.

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Iran denies seeking a nuclear arsenal, saying its enrichment of uranium is strictly for civilian use.

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The United Arab Emirates has said that it was being targeted “in a very unwarranted manner” in the Middle East war, stressing it would “not partake in any attacks against Iran”.

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“We’ve been very clear before and leading up to the current events we are witnessing in the region that as the UAE we will not partake in any attacks against Iran from our territory, and that we will not be involved in such a conflict,” the UAE ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Jamal Al Musharakh, told reporters.

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The EU has said it is open to extending naval maritime operations in the Middle East to protect international shipping, following talks with regional leaders.

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In a joint statement the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and European Council president, António Costa, “expressed openness” to enhance maritime defensive operations Aspides and Atalanta, which are aimed at protecting waterways and preventing disruption to supply chains in and around the Red Sea.

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Aspides was set up in 2024 following attacks by Houthi rebels on international shipping. Atalanta was established in 2008 to counter Somali pirates in the Horn of Africa, but has seen its remit extended.

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Both EU presidents also expressed concern about the impact of the regional crisis on Lebanon, especially the large-scale displacement of civilians. Von der Leyen pledged humanitarian aid to support 130,000 people in Lebanon, with the first flight due to leave on Tuesday, the statement said.

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Von der Leyen and Costa held talks via video link with the leaders and senior ministers from Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Armenia, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Oman, earlier on Monday.

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The EU statement described the video call as “the continued manifestation of solidarity and diplomatic outreach” adding: “The European Union is a long-standing, reliable partner for the region in these difficult moments and is ready to contribute in every possible way to help deescalate the situation and facilitate the return to the negotiating table.”

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But in the last week the bloc has faced criticism in sharply critical commentaries from former insiders. One former senior diplomat, who served as the EU’s representative to the Palestinian territories, said Europe’s response to the Iran war was “shameful” and “disunited” in comments also aimed at the EU’s big powers, notably Germany. Another former senior EU diplomat, who was the chief civil servant in the bloc’s foreign policy service, described the EU as “a mere commentator on the geopolitical upheaval on its Southern flank” in an article published on 3 March.

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Lebanon’s ministry of public health said Israeli forces killed two paramedics and injured six more in two separate airstrikes on Monday, the state-run National News Agency reports.

\n One strike took place near the municipality of Tyre Diba, about 83 kilometres (52 miles) south of Beirut and the other in Jouaiyya, about 8.6 kilometres (5 miles) further southeast.

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French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that France will send two frigates as part of the EU naval mission Aspides in the Red Sea, Reuters reports.

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“We are in the process of setting up a purely defensive, purely escort mission, which must be prepared together with both European and non-European states,” Macron said after meeting with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Cyprus.

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Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson downplayed the likelihood of a ceasefire as long as attacks continue, Iran’s Student News Network reported on Monday, adding that Iran would continue to defend itself.

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“There is no point to talks about anything but defence and crushing retaliations against enemies,” Esmaeil Baghaei said, before reiterating that Tehran has no war to fight with its Muslim neighbours but must target “facilities used by aggressors” for its legitimate defence.

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The foreign ministry spokesperson also denied any Iranian attack against Turkey, Azerbaijan and Cyprus, pointing instead at what he called “false flag attacks.”

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With oil prices surging above $100 a barrel, foreign leaders are starting to speak about the rippling economic impacts of the war. Earlier, Keir Starmer warned about deeper economic impacts, the longer the war goes on (you can see more details in the UK politics blog here.)

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This morning, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen made similar remarks in a meeting with EU ambassadors.

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“We are now seeing a regional conflict with unintended consequences. And the spillover is already a reality today,” she said, adding that European citizens were being “caught in the crossfire”.

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Still, von der Leyen said that “the people of Iran deserve freedom, dignity, and the right to decide their own future”.

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  Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his slain father Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, signalling that hardliners remain in charge.

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  Fresh missile and drone strikes by Israel and Iran reverberated across the Middle East as the war entered its 10th day. The Israeli military said on Monday it had begun a “wide-scale wave of strikes” in Tehran, Isfahan and southern Iran after a man was killed in an airstrike fired at central Israel earlier. The Israeli military also said Monday that it had begun targeting Al-Qard Al-Hassan, a US-sanctioned financial organisation that Israel has accused of financing the Iran-backed Hezbollah, in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

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  Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday said the Israeli military unlawfully fired white phosphorus munitions in the town of Yohmor in southern Lebanon.
  \n The highly toxic white phosphorus can be used by militaries to obscure operations and is not listed a chemical weapon under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), but use of it against humans in a civilian setting is considered a violation of Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCCW).

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  Unicef, a UN agency, estimates that at least 83 children have been killed and 254 wounded in Lebanon since the start of the conflict – during which time an estimated 700,000 people – including around 200,000 children – have been displaced from their homes.

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  Residents in Tehran are still reeling from “apocalyptic” scenes unfolding across their city after airstrikes on oil depots over the weekend filled the sky with black smoke and covered the streets in soot. “The situation is so frightening it’s hard to describe,” one resident told the Guardian. “Smoke has covered the entire city. I have severe shortness of breath and burning in my eyes and throat, and many others feel the same. But people still have to go outside because they have no choice. Many places reopened today, but closed again because it’s impossible to stay outdoors.”

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  The war has sent oil prices surging and Asian stock markets into a nosedive. Global oil prices rose past $100 (£74) a barrel for the first time since 2022 as fallout from the war continues to wipe 20m barrels of oil from the market each day.

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The Lebanese parliament has voted to extend its term for two years as Israeli airstrikes continue in the south, according to the state-run National News Agency.

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The vote was 76 in favour of the extension, 41 against and 41 abstentions, with the Associated Press reporting that Hezbollah’s 13-member bloc in parliament voted in favour as well.

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The Israeli military issued a warning on Monday for residents of the southern suburbs of Beirut to heed earlier evacuation orders as it carried out an operation targeting Al-Qard Al-Hassan, the US-sanctioned financial organisation that Israel has accused of financing the Iran-backed Hezbollah.

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The Israeli military announced Monday that it had begun a “wide-scale wave of strikes against infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime” in across Tehran, Isfahan and southern Iran.

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The announcement came shortly after a man was killed and several more injured in an airstrike fired toward central Israel. It is unclear who launched the attack.

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At least 83 children have been killed and 254 wounded in Lebanon since the Israeli military began targeting the country with airstrikes in response to missiles launched into northern Israel by the Iran-back Hezbollah, according to Unicef, a UN agency.

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“On average, more than 10 children have been killed every day across Lebanon over the past week, with approximately 36 children injured each day,” Edouard Beigbeder, the Unicef regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement.

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Beigbeder estimated that since 2 March, 700,000 people – including around 200,000 children – have been displaced from their homes, “adding to the tens of thousands already uprooted from previous escalations”.

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\n “Unicef calls on all parties to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure, including schools and shelters, and to uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law,” Beigbeder said. “Unicef urges immediate efforts to de-escalate the situation and prevent further harm to children.”

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The election of Mojtaba Khamenei as the new Iranian supreme leader, succeeding his assassinated father, represents a symbolic and real triumph for conservative continuity at a time when the regime is under unprecedented challenge.

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It also raises questions about how the hereditary principle complies with a revolutionary ideology formed in 1979 that never envisaged the post of supreme leader being passed from father to son.

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday said the Israeli military unlawfully fired white phosphorus munitions in the town of Yohmor in southern Lebanon.

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The international NGO said its researchers made this determination after verifying and geolocating seven images showing airburst white phosphorus munitions deployed over a residential part of the town on 03 March.

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White phosphorus is highly toxic, creating clouds of phosphorus pentoxide that then react with the moisture in the air – or in people’s lungs – to form phosphoric acid. It reacts violently with oxygen, meaning it can ignite and set fire to certain targets once released.

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White phosphorus can be used by militaries to obscure operations and is not listed a chemical weapon under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), but use of it against humans in a civilian setting is considered a violation of Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCCW).

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“The Israeli military’s unlawful use of white phosphorus over residential areas is extremely alarming and will have dire consequences for civilians,” Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.

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HRW has previously accused the IDF of using white phosphorus munitions in Gaza and Lebanon, which it denied. The IDF did not immediately respond to the Guardian on the HRW’s latest allegations.

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G7 finance ministers are preparing to discuss the release of emergency oil reserves, according to reports, after the US-Israel war with Iran sent the price of crude above $100 (£75) for the first time since 2022.

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The ministers will discuss the release of the reserves in a call coordinated by the International Energy Agency (IEA), according to a report from the Financial Times.

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The emergency meeting will take place at 8.30am New York time to discuss the impact of the Iran war, the FT reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.

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In case you’re just tuning in to our live coverage, here’s a snapshot of the latest developments in the US-Israeli war on Iran.

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  Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his slain father Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, signalling that hardliners remain in charge.

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  Fresh missile and drone strikes by Israel and Iran reverberated across the Middle East as the war entered its 10th day. The Israeli military said on Monday it had begun a wave of attacks in central Iran and had struck Hezbollah infrastructure in Beirut.

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  The war has sent oil prices surging and Asian stock markets into a nosedive. Global oil prices rose past $100 (£74) a barrel for the first time since 2022 as fallout from the war continues to wipe 20m barrels of oil from the market each day.

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  Pope Leo warned of “a tragedy of enormous proportions” due to the “widespread climate of hatred and fear” in Iran and across the region.

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  Iran and its proxies appeared to have launched attacks across the region. Those included reports of strikes targeting a US diplomatic facility near Baghdad’s international airport but being intercepted, a drone interception east of Saudi Arabia’s northern Jawf region, and thick smoke seen rising from the direction of the Bapco oil refinery in Bahrain.

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  Trump said that when to end the war would be a “mutual” decision he would make with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Times of Israel reported.

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  The US military reported a seventh American had died from wounds sustained during Iran’s initial counterattack. The Israeli military said two of its soldiers had been killed in southern Lebanon. The US-Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,332 Iranian civilians and wounded thousands, according to Iran’s UN ambassador.
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Bahrain’s state-owned energy company Bapco Energies has declared force majeure on its group operations after Iran attacked the country’s only oil refinery, news reports are saying.

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A statement from the company said it “hereby serves notice of force majeure on its group operations which have been affected by the ongoing regional conflict in the Middle East and the recent attack on its refinery complex”.

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Last week Qatar – the Gulf’s biggest liquefied natural gas producer – suspended activity at its facilities on Monday and declared force majeure on gas exports on Wednesday, freeing it from contractual obligations to its customers.

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Hezbollah said on Monday it was fighting Israeli forces who landed in eastern Lebanon by helicopter across the Syrian border, the second such operation since the outbreak of the latest conflict with Israel.

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Hezbollah said it detected “the infiltration of approximately 15 Israeli enemy helicopters” from the Syrian side of the border in eastern Lebanon, an area where Hezbollah holds sway.

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The Iran-backed militant group said in its statement that its fighters “engaged the helicopters and the infiltrating force with appropriate weapons” and that the confrontation was ongoing, the AFP news agency reported.

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Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency earlier said there were “fierce clashes… towards the outskirts of the town of Nabi Sheet to repel Israeli forces that carried out a landing by helicopters” in the area.

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Two Hezbollah officials in the Bekaa region, where Nabi Sheet is located, told AFP that an Israeli helicopter was downed.

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The Israeli army did not immediately comment on the incident.

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It was the second such raid after an Israeli commando operation in Nabi Sheet and its surrounding areas overnight on Friday failed to find the remains of Ron Arad, an airman missing since 1986. The fighting left three Lebanese soldiers and 41 residents of the Bekaa valley dead, according to the Lebanese army and ministry of health.

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Saudi Arabia has condemned what it calls Iran’s “reprehensible” and unjustifiable aggression against the kingdom and other Gulf states.

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The Saudi foreign ministry said in a statement on X:

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs renews the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s categorical condemnation of the reprehensible Iranian aggressions against the Kingdom, the Gulf Cooperation Council states, a number of Arab and Islamic countries, and friendly nations, which cannot be accepted or justified under any circumstances.

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The Kingdom affirms its full right to take all measures that ensure the protection of its security, sovereignty, and the safety of its citizens and residents, and to deter aggression.

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Qatar says 313 people of different nationalities have been arrested over allegations of inciting public concern amid the US-Israeli war on Iran.

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The arrests were carried out as part of “ongoing efforts to monitor and address the misuse of social media platforms”, the Qatari interior ministry said in a press release posted on X.

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The arrests were made for filming and circulating unauthorized video clips, spreading misleading information and rumours, and disseminating content intended to incite public concern, in violation of official directives.

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The interior ministry also said it “stresses the importance of refraining from filming, publishing video clips or circulating rumours related to the current situation, and calls on the public to obtain information solely from approved official sources”.

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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 has reported.

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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. The US president said:

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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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The report said 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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More on Bahrain now: the country said on Monday that an Iranian drone attack on the island of Sitra injured 32 people overnight, as Gulf nations reported new attacks with Tehran pressing its retaliatory strikes across the region.

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All of the wounded were Bahraini citizens and there were four “serious cases”, including children, the health ministry said in a statement carried by the state news agency.

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The wounded included a 17-year-old girl who suffered severe head and eye injuries, and a two-month-old baby, according to the ministry.

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The report from Agence-France Presse said several explosions were also heard on Monday in the Qatari capital of Doha, while Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait all reported new attacks.

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Qatar’s defence ministry said on Monday that its forces had intercepted a missile attack.

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Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry said the kingdom intercepted and destroyed two drones heading towards the Shaybah oil field in the country’s south-east.

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Kuwait’s defence ministry said the country’s air defences were working to intercept a missile and drone attack on Monday.

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The man who has been chosen as the successor to Iran’s slain supreme leader 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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Mojtaba Khamenei has spent much of his life at the centre of Iranian power while mainly staying out of public view.

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Khamenei is the second son of the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the clerical body responsible for selecting Iran’s highest authority announced the decision on Sunday, calling on Iranians to rally behind him and preserve national unity.

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

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Mojtaba Khamenei was born in 1969 in the north-eastern Iranian city of Mashhad and was raised within the political and clerical world that emerged after the 1979 revolution.

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As the Guardian’s Lorenzo Tondo has also written:

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As a young man he studied theology in the seminaries of Qom and reportedly took part in the final stages of the Iran-Iraq war.

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Unlike many figures in Iran’s leadership, Khamenei never pursued elected office or a prominent government role. Instead, he gradually became an influential presence inside his father’s office, where he was widely seen as part of a small circle managing political access to the supreme leader.

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Over the years he cultivated close relationships with conservative clerics and elements of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

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His name surfaced publicly during the disputed 2009 presidential election, when reformist figures accused him of playing a role in supporting the security crackdown that followed mass protests. But he has never discussed the issue of succession publicly.

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The Australian share market plunged on Monday, wiping about $13obn from the value of the ASX midway through the trading session, after a sharp rise in oil prices caused by the Middle East conflict sparked concerns of a breakout in global inflation.

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The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 was down 4% in lunchtime trading to dive below the 8,500 point mark, marking the single biggest one-day drop since the announcement of Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs last year.

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The selldown is linked to disrupted oil supplies, the single biggest contributor to global inflation, which make almost all goods and services more expensive, from petrol and groceries to utilities and travel.

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Global oil prices surged past $US100 a barrel shortly before the Australian share market opened for the week, spooking investors.

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Hello and welcome to our continuing live coverage of the war on Iran.

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Here are the main developments:

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  Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader after the killing of his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli strikes, 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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  The Iran war has driven the price of crude oil above $100 per barrel for the first time since 2022.

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  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. “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 all in capitals that “only fools would think differently”.

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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 number 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 Israel Defense Forces 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 the five facilities “were damaged” but the “fire was brought under control”. “If you can tolerate oil at more than $200 per barrel, continue this game,” a spokesperson for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday.

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  Iranian 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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