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

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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)

TEHRAN, Mar. 09 (MNA) – Iranian officials and citizens pledged allegiance to Ayatollah Seyyed Mojataba Khamenei, the third Leader of the Islamic Revolution of Iran.

Trump says oil price spike on Iran war a 'small price to pay' US President Donald Trump dismissed the war-related spike in oil prices as a "small price to pay" amid the US-Israeli war with Iran. Oil prices surged about 20% in early trade on Monday, hitting their highest since July 2022, as the expanding US-Israeli war with Iran fuelled fears of tighter supply and prolonged disruptions to shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. "Short term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for U.S.A., and World, Safety and Peace. ONLY FOOLS WOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY!" he wrote on his Truth Social platform. This video grab taken from UGC images posted on social media on 7 and 8 March 2026 shows fire erupting at an oil depot in Iran's capital Tehran. (AFP)

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

Iranian state television has announced that the Assembly of Experts has chosen Mojtaba Khamenei as supreme leader.

New front in Lebanon as Iran war reshapes Middle East  NPR

Iran Guards say 'ready for complete obedience' to Mojtaba Khamenei Iran's Revolutionary Guards pledged allegiance on Sunday to the country's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, after he was appointed his father's successor by the Assembly of Experts. "The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...is ready for complete obedience and self-sacrifice in carrying out the divine commands of the Guardian Jurist of the time, His Eminence Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei", the Guards said in a statement.

Office of Iraq’s top Shia cleric Sistani says attending pro-Iran rallies is 'collective duty' Office of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s top Shia cleric, in Najaf, said on Sunday that Iranians' popular public support for Iran during the current crisis is a "collective duty", according to a statement circulated by his office. The fatwa, responding to a question about whether it was obligatory to take part in public gatherings in Iran to counter what were described as efforts by “agitators” to sow disorder, said participation and presence in such circumstances are an obligation. His office, citing the fatwa, said followers should seek parental approval for attending gatherings when possible, but that if that is not feasible, participation takes precedence. The ruling, circulated by media and social channels linked to Shia groups, said the obligation applies amid what it described as sensitive conditions and the need to uphold societal stability in the face of unrest and perceived threats. An Iraqi woman walks past a portrait of Iraq's top Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and Iran's former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during march in the Kadhimiya district of Baghdad on 21 June 21, 2025. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP)

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.

TEHRAN, Mar. 08 (MNA) – Ayatollah Seyyed Mojataba Hosseini Khamenei has been appointed as the 3rd Leader of the Islamic Revolution of Iran.

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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The 56-year-old Mojtaba Khamenei is set to continue leadership of Iran in the same vein as his father

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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.