Israel warns it will pursue Iran’s next supreme leader; fire engulfs Kuwait city tower as Iranian strikes hit the Gulf

Israel warns it will pursue Iran’s next supreme leader; fire engulfs Kuwait city tower as Iranian strikes hit the Gulf


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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 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.

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.


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 .


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.


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”.


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.


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.

Commander-in-Chief General 'HEEL-SPUR' saluting dead US service personnel


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.


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”.


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.


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.

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


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”.