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New video suggests US strike near Iran girls' school, report says New video footage appears to show a US Tomahawk missile striking a facility in Minab, Iran, on 28 February, according to the open-source investigative group Bellingcat. The footage, released by Iran’s Mehr News and geolocated by Bellingcat, is said to provide the first visual evidence that US forces hit the area. The video also shows smoke rising from the vicinity of a nearby girls’ school where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children. The footage contradicts US President Donald Trump’s earlier claim that an Iranian missile was responsible for the strike on the school. A video released by Mehr News, and geolocated by Bellingcat, shows the missile hitting a building near the school. This image shows a comparison between the Tomahawk missile that hit near the school and Tomahawk missiles flying over Tehran earlier in the conflict. pic.twitter.com/wv0MekFJpR March 8, 2026

Iran attacks Israel in first missile wave after Mojtaba Khamenei appointment Iran launched a new wave of missiles toward Israel on Monday following the appointment of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader, according to Iranian state media. State broadcaster IRIB said the missiles were fired as part of what it described as the “30th wave of Operation True Promise 4". Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said the attacks targeted US bases in the region and Israeli sites in the north of the country. In Israel, emergency services said a woman was slightly injured after debris from an intercepted missile fell in the central city of Rishon LeZion, APF news agency reported.

Oil soars past $100 a barrel amid Iran war  Al Jazeera

US-Israel war in Gulf threatens desalination plants vital to region  Muslim Network TV

Iran's military and political leaders pledge allegiance to Mojtaba Khamenei as US-Israeli attacks continue.

US orders embassy staff to leave Saudi Arabia due to Iran war The United States said late Sunday that it was ordering embassy staff to leave Saudi Arabia as Iran strikes the kingdom in retaliation for an attack by Washington and Israel. The State Department said in a travel advisory it had "ordered non-emergency US government employees and US government employee family members to leave Saudi Arabia due to safety risks." Smoke rises above the city, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 5 March, 2026. (Reuters)

Winners and Losers: Iran War Charts a Brutal, Painful Path to a World Without Oil  The Energy Mix Weekender

New front in Lebanon as Iran war reshapes Middle East  NPR

Dozens of people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a United Nations-run school in central Gaza, authorities said, in an attack that CNN analysis found was conducted with a US-made weapon.

Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader amid war?  Al Jazeera

Iran's ruling clerics on Sunday appointed the slain leader's son, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, as the country's new supreme leader, defying threats from the United States and Israel to oppose him. Nine days after US-Israeli strikes killed the elder Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and plunged the Middle East into war, the clerical government's Assembly of Experts convened to choose their next leader.

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By Samia Nakhoul and Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, March 9 (Reuters) - Iran's clerical leadership chose confrontation over compromise in appointing Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father, Ali Khamenei, a move regional officials say is a direct rebuke to U.S. President Donald Trump, who had declared the son "unacceptable". Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a U.S.-Israeli strike at the start of the conflict, now in its second week.

Mojtaba Khamenei is to replace his father as Iran’s new supreme leader

Palestinians were killed after armed Israeli settlers attacked the village of Abu Falah in the occupied West Bank.

Move could lead to escalation of war as Donald Trump has already called Mojtaba Khamenei an unacceptable choice Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been chosen as his successor, according to Iranian state media. Members of the clerical body responsible for selecting Iran’s highest authority announced the decision on Sunday. Continue reading...

Iran names Khamenei's son, Mojtaba, as new supreme leader, state media reports Iran's Assembly of Experts has named Mojtaba Khamenei to replace his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the country's new supreme leader, state media reported on Sunday. Mojtaba, a mid-ranking cleric with close ties to the powerful Revolutionary Guards, had long been viewed by elements of Iran's ruling establishment as a potential successor to his father, who was killed after the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran. Although Iran's ruling ideology frowns on the principle of hereditary succession, he has a powerful following within the Guards and his dead father's still-influential office. This handout picture taken in Tehran on 30 October, 2024, and provided by the office of Iran's supreme leader, shows Mojtaba Khamenei (2nd L), one of the children of Iran’s slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran about U.S. military targets  Fortune

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