DUBAI, March 8 (Reuters) - The clerical body that will choose Iran's next supreme leader, succeeding the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has more or less reached a majority consensus, Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Mohammadmehdi Mirbaqeri said on Sunday. The Mehr news
March 8 (Reuters) - The Israeli military warned it would continue pursuing every successor of Iran's next supreme leader. In a post on X in Farsi, the Israeli military also warned it would pursue every person who seeks to appoint a successor for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
Here are the latest events in the Middle East war on Sunday: - Tehran oil facilities hit - An Iranian official said that overnight US-Israeli air strikes damaged several Tehran oil facilities. The reported targeting of Iran's oil infrastructure will deepen global markets'
Israel says it struck a fuel storage site in Tehran as explosions rocked the capital. Gulf states reported casualties and damage from Iranian drones and missiles, including hits near airports and a desalination plant
ROME, March 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump praised Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and said she was willing to help the United States and Israel in their war with Iran, Italy’s Corriere della Sera reported on Sunday. Speaking to the newspaper in a telephone
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Sunday that the country's forces could fight an intense war for six months against the United States and Israel, which said it struck Tehran's commanders at a seaside hotel in the heart of Beirut. As the conflict spilled into its second week,
Sri Lanka discharged 22 Iranian crew from hospital who were plucked from life rafts after their warship was sunk by a US submarine, officials said Sunday. The crew had been treated at Karapitiya Hospital in the southern port city of Galle since Wednesday after the IRIS Dena was
Sri Lanka discharged from hospital 22 Iranian sailors who were plucked from life rafts after their warship was sunk by a US submarine, officials said Sunday. The sailors were treated at Karapitiya Hospital in the southern port city of Galle since Wednesday after the IRIS Dena
By Maya Gebeily, Alexander Cornwell, Nandita Bose and Parisa Hafezi BEIRUT/MIAMI/TEL AVIV/DUBAI, March 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he is not interested in negotiating with Iran and raised the possibility that the Iran war would only end once Tehran no longer
SYDNEY, March 8 (Reuters) - Australia's government said on Sunday it was considering requests to help protect countries attacked by Iran in the widening Middle East conflict, but reiterated it would not take part in any military operations in Iran. "We've had many countries,
Lebanon's health ministry said Sunday that an Israeli strike on a hotel in central Beirut killed at least four people, with Israel saying it had targeted commanders from Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on Monday, when Iran-backed militant
Gulf nations reported missile and drone attacks Sunday, while Iran vowed to press on with strikes against neighbouring countries as the regional war entered its second week. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait all reported new attacks, after loud explosions
The global positioning system (GPS) capabilities of cargo ships, oil tankers and other vessels stuck in the Middle East because of the widening war are likely worse than those in your cell phone. Experts say this deficiency explains why since the start of US-Israeli strikes,
President Donald Trump on Saturday blamed Iran for what the country's authorities said was a deadly strike on a school in the southern county of Minab. "We think it was done by Iran. Because they are very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions. They have no accuracy
By Nicole Jao, Ted Hesson and Nandita Bose NEW YORK, March 7 (Reuters) - The White House has halted, at least for now, a federal security bulletin warning of a heightened threat to the U.S. in light of the conflict in Iran, a Trump administration official told Reuters.
By Costas Pitas and Andrew MacAskill March 7 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Britain is giving "serious thought" to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East, but added that the U.S. does not need them to win the war with Iran, in the latest
Turkey's foreign minister advised Saturday against efforts to cause a civil war inside Iran, while warning Tehran after NATO intercepted a Turkey-bound ballistic missile launched from Iran this week. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said any effort to stir up a civil war inside
In various statements on Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump denied claims that a U.S. strike had hit a girls' school in Iran early in the war, or that Russia was providing Iran with intelligence, but was confident of U.S. success in the war: 'we've decimated their whole evil
US President Donald Trump attended the return Saturday of the bodies of the first six US soldiers killed during the escalating war with Iran. Trump, wearing a white "USA" baseball cap, saluted as troops carried each flag-draped case from a military transport plane at Dover Air
March 7 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday he had spoken to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about the situation in Iran and the Middle East and restated Kyiv's offer to help deal with Iranian drones. "Ukraine has been fighting against
On a deserted road not too far from the border between Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan, Satar Barsirini looked up at the sky, now streaked with jets and drones. Iraq's Kurdish region has found itself caught in the crossfire of a regional war triggered by US and Israeli attacks on the
Trump had said that the U.S. would not recognize Khamenei's son, who sustained light wounds last week, as Iran's new leader if he were chosen. Mojtaba Khamenei was named as a possible successor to the ayatollah in 2024
By Samia Nakhoul and Parisa Hafezi March 7 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has told Tehran that while it favours a diplomatic settlement to Iran's conflict with the United States, continued attacks on the kingdom and its energy sector could push Riyadh to respond in kind, four sources
Sri Lanka will treat Iranian sailors rescued from a torpedoed frigate according to international law, a minister said Saturday, following reports that Washington was pressuring Colombo to not repatriate them. Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath told a conference in New Delhi that
By Parisa Hafezi and Angus McDowall DUBAI, March 7 (Reuters) - Iran's hierarchy is showing signs of fracturing over a war its leaders see as existential, with angry divisions between hardliners and more pragmatic factions laid bare by a row over President Masoud Pezeshkian's
By Humeyra Pamuk, Simon Lewis and Erin Banco WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) - As the first explosions from Iran's retaliatory attack sounded across the United Arab Emirates last Saturday, the State Department was still scrambling to finalize a key bureaucratic task - securing
This is the existential moment the Iranian regime has long feared. And although the U.S. and Israel began the war with Iran with congruent strategic objectives, subsequent conflicting statements by President Trump and his administration are mudding the picture
By Matt Spetalnick and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) - One week into the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran that has plunged the Middle East into turmoil, President Donald Trump faces a growing list of risks and challenges that raise questions about whether he will be
Lion-emblazoned flags of pre-revolution Iran fluttered in cities across the world on Saturday as demonstrators took to the streets a week after the start of the war in the Middle East. Some protesters came out in support of Reza Pahlavi, the US-based son of the country's late
Two attack helicopters, their forward-facing guns silhouetted against Doha's clear blue sky, flew low over the city's cruise ship terminal as stranded passengers boarded buses and cars on Saturday for Riyadh, hoping to catch flights home. "Eight days we are here in Doha and
An Israeli special forces operation that failed to find the remains of airman Ron Arad, captured in Lebanon in 1986, killed 41 people and wounded 40 in eastern Lebanon. Gutted buildings, torn-off roofs, munitions scattered on the ground surrounded a large crater in Nabi Sheet,
Baku said an investigation found two Iranian citizens and an Azerbaijani national had colluded to bring over seven kilograms of the C-4 explosive into Azerbaijan on the instructions of Iran's Revolutionary Guards
The United States has started using British bases for certain operations against Iran during the Middle East war, the UK government announced on Saturday. Britain's defence ministry said the US had begun using the military sites for "specific defensive operations to prevent
After betraying the community twice, the U.S. president is trying to mobilize Kurdish factions against the Revolutionary Guards in western Iran. It's not yet clear if they're up to the task or how eager they are – or how Turkey will respond
With further negotiations pencilled in with the US and perhaps assuming that any assassination attempt would take place at night, Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei was at his complex in Tehran last Saturday morning. It would be his last. An air strike obliterated the compound
According to three sources, Israeli strikes in western Iran are meant to aid Iranian Kurdish militias preparing a possible cross-border offensive, though Iraqi Kurdistan's political leadership has publicly denied any plan to send fighters or get involved in Iran
Commenting on Friday's short notices, the IDF said that it cannot commit to a specific number of minutes between the warning and the activation of sirens. Meanwhile, satellite images show Iran is attempting to "blind" the United States and its allies by targeting radar systems
The son of a British couple jailed in Iran says explosions near the Tehran prison where they are being held have left him fearing they could be killed in the war. Joe Bennett, 31, has been campaigning full-time for the release of his mother Lindsay Foreman and her husband Craig
According to Iran's president, Iran is acting defensively against the 'source and origin of aggressive actions' and will maintain strikes on U.S. and Israeli targets, while seeking friendly ties with neighboring states and limiting attacks on them unless provoked
