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New attacks in Gulf as Iran vows more
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The whole city will be in ruins very soon at this rate of bombingTrump vows to escalate war as divisions in Iran emerge
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Trump rejects settling Iran war as new strikes light up Tehran
The US president said the air campaign could make negotiations a moot point if all potential leaders of Iran are killed and the Iranian military is destroyed.
Fire burns and smoke rises from Aqdasieh Oil Depot after being reportedly hit by strike, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, in this screengrab taken from a social media video released on Mar 8, 2026.
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Trump rejects settling Iran war as new strikes light up Tehran
The US president said the air campaign could make negotiations a moot point if all potential leaders of Iran are killed and the Iranian military is destroyed.
Fire burns and smoke rises from Aqdasieh Oil Depot after being reportedly hit by strike, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, in this screengrab taken from a social media video released on Mar 8, 2026.
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Arab nations will gang up and join the war. Iran BBQ liao
My same prediction here. If Iran will continue to bomb those Gulf nations' assets, there will come a time when they can no longer take it and will attack Iran. Iran will then be a goner because together with Israel and US, there's no way it can survive, unless Iran does really has nuclear bombs. But then all will be perished together if it will end in this way.
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The war has entered its eighth day, and so far, no Gulf state has participated in the bombing of Iran. They are carefully assessing all options to determine the most favorable course of action.
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Mojtaba Khamenei seen attending a demonstration to mark Jerusalem day in Tehran on May 31, 2019.
Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPHoto/AP/File
Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei the country’s new supreme leader following the killing of his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli strikes on February 28, the state-run media announced early Monday.
He was selected by Iran’s Assembly of Experts, an 88-member body of elected senior clerics tasked with choosing the supreme leader.
The assembly has chosen a new leader only once before since the Islamic Republic was established in 1979. It was when Ali Khamenei was hastily selected following the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini more than three decades ago.
US President Donald Trump said Thursday he must be “involved in the appointment” of Iran’s next leader and that the choice of Khamenei’s son was “unacceptable” to him.
Mojtaba, 56, is Khamenei’s second son and is known to wield significant influence behind the scenes and has strong links with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the most powerful military body in the country, as well as its Basij volunteer paramilitary force.
Mojtaba is not a high-ranking cleric and has no official role in the regime. He was sanctioned by the US in 2019. The US Treasury had accused him of working closely with the commander of the IRGC-Quds Force and the Basij to advance what it described as his father’s “destabilizing regional ambitions and oppressive domestic objectives.”
Israel targeted Mojtaba in a strike last week, according to an Israeli source familiar with the matter. But Israel believes he was only injured in the attempt.
This post has been updated with more background on the new supreme leader.
Iran names Khamenei's son as new supreme leader
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Mojtaba Khamenei seen attending a demonstration to mark Jerusalem day in Tehran on May 31, 2019.
Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPHoto/AP/File
Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei the country’s new supreme leader following the killing of his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli strikes on February 28, the state-run media announced early Monday.
He was selected by Iran’s Assembly of Experts, an 88-member body of elected senior clerics tasked with choosing the supreme leader.
The assembly has chosen a new leader only once before since the Islamic Republic was established in 1979. It was when Ali Khamenei was hastily selected following the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini more than three decades ago.
US President Donald Trump said Thursday he must be “involved in the appointment” of Iran’s next leader and that the choice of Khamenei’s son was “unacceptable” to him.
Mojtaba, 56, is Khamenei’s second son and is known to wield significant influence behind the scenes and has strong links with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the most powerful military body in the country, as well as its Basij volunteer paramilitary force.
Mojtaba is not a high-ranking cleric and has no official role in the regime. He was sanctioned by the US in 2019. The US Treasury had accused him of working closely with the commander of the IRGC-Quds Force and the Basij to advance what it described as his father’s “destabilizing regional ambitions and oppressive domestic objectives.”
Israel targeted Mojtaba in a strike last week, according to an Israeli source familiar with the matter. But Israel believes he was only injured in the attempt.
This post has been updated with more background on the new supreme leader.
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They tried that in Vietnam and Afghanistan. But US keep repeating same mistakes.
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- The United States and Israel unleashed fresh strikes on Iran, hitting oil structures and water treatment plants, as the costly U.S.-Israel war with Iran spiraled into its second week with no clear exit strategy.
- The Pentagon announced that a seventh U.S. service member has died from injuries sustained during an Iranian attack on American troops in Saudi Arabia last week.
- Iran, which retaliated with a barrage of strikes on U.S. targets in neighboring Arab countries, says it is close to naming a new supreme leader to succeed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the joint military assault on Feb. 28. President Donald Trump did not rule out objecting to a new Iranian leader with ties to the old regime, but said the successor “is not going to last long” with his approval.
- Trump has not ruled out sending U.S. ground troops to the Middle East, where roughly 1,845 people have been killed in Iran, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Israel, Kuwait, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Bahrain
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Its a big city. Dont worry about it. Iran offered many peace initiatives but was repeatedly rebuffed and punished with drastic economic and currency sanctions.
And the western media claim corruption and incompetency as reason for economic malaise when it was US that did it.
Iran has a parliament and elected MP's since 1950's.but US assassinated and sabotaged causing chaos till today.
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It has always been US /israel strategy to bomb iran back to the stone age like they did to libya, Syria, iraq. It was never about liberation, freedom or democracy.
If they succeed, lebanon will be next on the menu.
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10 vessels attacked in Hormuz Strait: analysts
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PUBLISHED : 9 Mar 2026 at 04:56
Cargo ships and tankers ply the Strait of Hormuz
PARIS (FRANCE) - About 10 vessels in or near the Strait of Hormuz have come under attack since Iran blocked the strategic waterway in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes, data analysis groups report.
The attacks throughout the week following the outbreak of war on February 28 almost completely halted traffic through the strait, a crucial route for oil and other goods.
Britain's maritime security agency UKMTO has issued around 10 alerts for attacks as well as warnings of suspicious activity, but has released few details on the vessels involved.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) listed on its website Friday a total of nine attacks on ships in the strait in one week, including four incidents that killed a total of seven people.
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The IMO said one person was killed in each of three attacks on the vessels Skylight, MKD Vyom and the Stena Imperative on March 2, when the Hercules Star was also hit.
Between March 3 and 5 four more vessels were struck: the Libra Trader, Gold Oak, Safeen Prestige and the Sonangol Namibe.
On March 6, four people were killed when the Mussafah 2 was struck.
Indonesia announced Sunday that a vessel whose characteristics and last known position matched those of the Mussafah 2 sank two days earlier, but with a different toll.
Jakarta reported three Indonesian crew members missing, one injured Indonesian survivor and four survivors of other nationalities.
The strait normally sees 20 percent of global oil and liquefied natural gas transit it, but tanker traffic there has dropped by 90 percent in a week, according to analysis firm Kpler, which operates the MarineTraffic platform.
According MarineTraffic data analysed by AFP on Friday, only nine commercial ships -- tankers, cargo vessels and container ships -- had been detected crossing the strait since Monday, with some intermittently masking their position.
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Maritime security firm Vanguard said the Mussafah 2 was hit by two missiles as it tried to assist the container ship Safeen Prestige, which had been struck by a missile two days earlier.
"Recent incident reporting... indicates that vessels providing assistance or salvage operations to previously targeted vessels may also face elevated risk of follow-on strikes," the Joint Maritime Information Centre (JMIC), run by a Western naval coalition, warned in a note Saturday.
"The observed pattern of strikes against anchored vessels, drifting ships, and assistance vessels indicates a campaign focused on creating operational uncertainty and deterring routine commercial movement rather than a sustained attempt to sink vessels."
Drone and missile attacks claimed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards are not always confirmed by independent sources -- some are confirmed only after several days, and the vessels involved are not always identified. Casualty tolls can vary.
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Iran exports its own oil via the Strait of Hormuz and its intentions remain unclear.
A Revolutionary Guards general warned on March 2 that Iran would "burn any ship" attempting to cross the strait and block all Gulf oil exports.
But Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday it had "no intention" of closing the Strait of Hormuz.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Friday it would escort merchant ships attempting to transit the strait "as soon as it's reasonable to do it".
French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday he was seeking to build a coalition to secure the "sea lanes essential to the global economy" in the region.
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PUBLISHED : 9 Mar 2026 at 04:56
PARIS (FRANCE) - About 10 vessels in or near the Strait of Hormuz have come under attack since Iran blocked the strategic waterway in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes, data analysis groups report.
The attacks throughout the week following the outbreak of war on February 28 almost completely halted traffic through the strait, a crucial route for oil and other goods.
Britain's maritime security agency UKMTO has issued around 10 alerts for attacks as well as warnings of suspicious activity, but has released few details on the vessels involved.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) listed on its website Friday a total of nine attacks on ships in the strait in one week, including four incidents that killed a total of seven people.
- Seven reported killed -
The IMO said one person was killed in each of three attacks on the vessels Skylight, MKD Vyom and the Stena Imperative on March 2, when the Hercules Star was also hit.
Between March 3 and 5 four more vessels were struck: the Libra Trader, Gold Oak, Safeen Prestige and the Sonangol Namibe.
On March 6, four people were killed when the Mussafah 2 was struck.
Indonesia announced Sunday that a vessel whose characteristics and last known position matched those of the Mussafah 2 sank two days earlier, but with a different toll.
Jakarta reported three Indonesian crew members missing, one injured Indonesian survivor and four survivors of other nationalities.
The strait normally sees 20 percent of global oil and liquefied natural gas transit it, but tanker traffic there has dropped by 90 percent in a week, according to analysis firm Kpler, which operates the MarineTraffic platform.
According MarineTraffic data analysed by AFP on Friday, only nine commercial ships -- tankers, cargo vessels and container ships -- had been detected crossing the strait since Monday, with some intermittently masking their position.
- Rescuers targeted -
Maritime security firm Vanguard said the Mussafah 2 was hit by two missiles as it tried to assist the container ship Safeen Prestige, which had been struck by a missile two days earlier.
"Recent incident reporting... indicates that vessels providing assistance or salvage operations to previously targeted vessels may also face elevated risk of follow-on strikes," the Joint Maritime Information Centre (JMIC), run by a Western naval coalition, warned in a note Saturday.
"The observed pattern of strikes against anchored vessels, drifting ships, and assistance vessels indicates a campaign focused on creating operational uncertainty and deterring routine commercial movement rather than a sustained attempt to sink vessels."
Drone and missile attacks claimed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards are not always confirmed by independent sources -- some are confirmed only after several days, and the vessels involved are not always identified. Casualty tolls can vary.
- Iran's mixed messages -
Iran exports its own oil via the Strait of Hormuz and its intentions remain unclear.
A Revolutionary Guards general warned on March 2 that Iran would "burn any ship" attempting to cross the strait and block all Gulf oil exports.
But Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday it had "no intention" of closing the Strait of Hormuz.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Friday it would escort merchant ships attempting to transit the strait "as soon as it's reasonable to do it".
French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday he was seeking to build a coalition to secure the "sea lanes essential to the global economy" in the region.
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Asian markets tumble as expanding war on Iran pushes oil above US$110 a barrel
US President Donald Trump has dismissed the spike in oil prices as a "small price to pay" to eliminate Iran's nuclear threat.
Residents look on as flames and smoke rise from an oil storage facility struck as attacks hit the city during the US–Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, Mar 7, 2026. (Photo: Alireza Sotakbar/ISNA via AP)
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Like that how huh? New.rpund of inflation coming? Wontonmee will cost $8 per bowl at hawker centre?Asian markets tumble as expanding war on Iran pushes oil above US$110 a barrel
US President Donald Trump has dismissed the spike in oil prices as a "small price to pay" to eliminate Iran's nuclear threat.
Residents look on as flames and smoke rise from an oil storage facility struck as attacks hit the city during the US–Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, Mar 7, 2026. (Photo: Alireza Sotakbar/ISNA via AP)
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By Helen Regan
A woman holds a picture of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after his son Mojtaba Khamenei was introduced as Iran's new supreme leader in Tehran on Monday.
Majid Asgaripour/Wana News Agency/Reuters
Iran announced a nationwide gathering on Monday to pledge allegiance to new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.
Iran’s Islamic Propagation Coordination Council called on the public to gather “simultaneously across the country” at 3 p.m. local time and “declare their bay’at,” or oath of allegiance, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).
In the capital Tehran, the main gathering will take place the city’s central Enqelab Square, IRNA reported.
Iran calls on public to gather nationwide to pledge allegiance to new supreme leader
By Helen Regan
A woman holds a picture of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after his son Mojtaba Khamenei was introduced as Iran's new supreme leader in Tehran on Monday.
Majid Asgaripour/Wana News Agency/Reuters
Iran announced a nationwide gathering on Monday to pledge allegiance to new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.
Iran’s Islamic Propagation Coordination Council called on the public to gather “simultaneously across the country” at 3 p.m. local time and “declare their bay’at,” or oath of allegiance, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).
In the capital Tehran, the main gathering will take place the city’s central Enqelab Square, IRNA reported.
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