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• Iran’s new leader: Slain longtime ruler Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba Khamenei has been named the country’s next supreme leader. US President Donald Trump previously said Khamenei’s son would be an “unacceptable” choice.
• More attacks in region: Gulf states reported fresh aerial strikes, with dozens wounded in Bahrain. A seventh US service member has died in Saudi Arabia.
• War continues: Iran announced new missile launches hours after it named its new leader, and following Israeli strikes targeting Tehran’s energy resources. Trump said he will decide, together with Israel, when the war will end.
• School strike: New video appears to confirm a US airstrike targeted a naval base next to an Iranian school. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the US was “still investigating,” while Trump is pointing the finger at Iran.
• Oil prices soar: The price of oil surged past $100 per barrel, the first time it crossed that mark since 2022.
Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s exiled former crown prince, has called on the Australia government to ensure the safety of the Iranian women’s football team, after its exit from the Women’s Asian Cup on Sunday night.
Video posted to social media showed protesters against the Iranian regime surrounding the team’s bus and yelling “save our girls,” as the players left the stadium on Queensland’s Gold Coast after their 0-2 loss to the Philippines.
Supporters fear that any return to Iran will put the women in danger after state media labeled them “traitors” for standing silent during the Iranian national anthem before a match last Monday.
The act, which was interpreted as a gesture of defiance against the regime, came two days after the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran.
Sources told CNN that the team was forced to salute and sing the Iranian national anthem on Thursday ahead of the group stage match against host Australia. The women also sang the anthem and gave a military salute before Sunday’s defeat.
Iran coach Marziyeh Jafari told reporters after the Sunday match that the team was keen to return home. “Personally, I would like to return to my country as soon as possible and be with my compatriots and family,” she said.
For the Iranian team, any flight home would be fraught with danger and delay, given airspace closures. But having angered Iran’s leaders, supporters say they face an even greater risk of being punished for “treason.”
When asked on Sunday if there’d been any contact between Australian officials and the Iranian players, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said she didn’t want to “get into commentary about the Iranian women’s team.”
“We stand in solidarity with the men and women of Iran and particularly Iranian women and girls,” she told the ABC.
Asian markets sank on Monday as investor jitters deepened over the ongoing war in the Middle East, which sent oil prices to a four-year high and threatened import-dependent major economies in the region.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index tumbled 7% in the early hours of trading on Monday, while South Korea’s Kospi plummeted 7.8%. Taiwan’s Taiex slumped 5.8%, and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index slid 3.1%.
Israel has launched a new wave of strikes on central Iran and has struck Hezbollah infrastructure in Beirut, its military said Monday morning.
Countries across the Persian Gulf are reporting more incoming aerial attacks Monday morning.
Bahrain: At least 32 people were wounded, four seriously, when Iranian drone strikes hit Sitra, about 5 kilometers south of the capital in the early hours Monday, the kingdom’s National Communication Centre told CNN. The attacks targeted civilian residential areas close to energy infrastructure and “caused significant damage,” according to the NCC. Children are among the wounded, including a 2-month-old infant, two young boys and a 17-year-old girl, it added.
Kuwait: A drone was shot down by Kuwait’s National Guard early Monday “at one of the sites under its protection.” The force said it shot down the drone “as part of efforts to secure vital facilities.”
Qatar: Armed forces intercepted a missile attack Monday morning, the Ministry of Defense said in a post on X.
US President Donald Trump said he will decide, together with Israel, when to end the war with Iran.
In a brief telephone interview with The Times of Israel, Trump said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be part of the decision but that Washington will have the final say.
“I think it’s mutual… a little bit,” Trump told the independent online news outlet. “We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account.”
Asked if Israel could continue the war after the US decides to halt its strikes, Trump added: “I don’t think it’s going to be necessary.”
Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of Iran’s slain longtime ruler Ali Khamenei, has inherited an impossible job and is likely to be a “transitional figure,” CNN’s global affairs analyst said after he was named the country’s next supreme leader.
“He’s inheriting a government that is at war with the greatest superpower in the world, the United States, the greatest military power in the Middle East, Israel, and his own society,” said Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
Sadjadpour added that Mojtaba is currently injured and living in hiding, “with a bull’s eye on his back” and that people in Iran “have started chanting (for his) death.”
Earlier this year, anti-government protests also broke out across the country and authorities launched a brutal crackdown on the people who took to the streets.
“I asked someone who’s known him for a long time how on earth is he going to govern? And he said he’s not focused on governing, he’s focused on surviving,” Sadjadpour said.
“He’s, at best… going to be a transitional figure for Iran,” he said.
One resident of Tehran tells CNN that he and his wife are split on whether to leave the city as the war with the US and Israel intensifies.
The Israeli strikes on fuel depots on Saturday night were the “heaviest bombardments since the start of the war,” he said.
But he doesn’t want to leave. He’s worried about his coworkers. He also believes that there may be a chance to take to the streets again, the way Iranians did in January during massive anti-government protests.
But as the war wears on, regime supporters are also emboldened, he said. Every night in Tehran, pro-government Iranians have held gatherings similar to “car rallies,” waving the Iranian flag and chanting political slogans.
The price of oil surged past $100 per barrel on Sunday, the first time it crossed that mark since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Oil futures and gasoline prices have skyrocketed as traders worry that the war with Iran will lead to prolonged restrictions on the flow of oil around the globe.
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