Israel launched a new wave of strikes after nightfall in Tehran. Iran appears to be nearing a decision on its new supreme leader. Follow for live updates.
Senior clerics selected Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father. Trump previously said the choice would be “unacceptable.”Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei the country’s new supreme leader following the killing of his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, state media reports.
An American service member has died from injuries sustained during Iran’s initial attacks across the Middle East, according to US Central Command, marking thetargeted a naval base next to an Iranian elementary school where more than 160 students were killed last month, adding to a body of evidence contradictingIran 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.A senior Iranian official has warned that the conflict involving Iran, Israel and the United States has entered a “new phase,” dismissing suggestions that the war could end soon and signaling possible retaliation targeting energy infrastructure across the region. The official told CNN in a message Sunday that there was no prospect for an immediate end to the conflict despite some claims suggesting otherwise. “The war has entered a new phase and the attack on Iran’s oil and fuel depots will definitely be met with regional retaliation,” the official said. The official added that Iran could target energy infrastructure in response in the coming days, raising concerns about potential disruptions to regional oil and gas facilities. “Iran will not give up control of the Strait of Hormuz until it achieves its desired results,” the official said, referring to the critical shipping route through which a significant portion of the world’s oil supply passes.A newly emerged video appears to show a US airstrike targeting a building at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval base adjacent to the elementary school in Minab, where Iranian state media says more than 160 pupils were killed on February 28. The video, posted on Mehr News, a semi-official Iranian news agency, is the first to show missiles striking the area, and adds to a body of evidence that appears to contradictIn the footage, filmed from a nearby construction site, a munition consistent with an American BGM or UGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missile is seen before it strikes a location inside the IRGC base. The US Navy operates Tomahawks, launching them from its surface ships and submarines. Israel does not operate the Tomahawk missile, according to experts. As the camera pans to the right, a huge plume of smoke is seen from the direction of the Shajareh Tayyiba elementary school in Minab. Dozens of people can be seen in the foreground running away from the strikes. Sam Lair, a research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies , told CNN the munition in the video is consistent with a US Tomahawk Land Attack Missile : “First, it fits the visual characteristics of a TLAM. The cruciform shape with centrally mounted wings and a tailkit at the back. Second, the video was taken about 250 meters from the likely impact point. That means the munition has to be large. This rules out other munitions in the U.S. stockpile with similar visual characteristics like the GBU-69B.” Other weapons experts consulted by CNN agreed with this assessment and added that TLAMs are often used in opening salvos before air supremacy is achieved. It was not immediately clear which exact building was struck, but an analysis by CNN suggested that it hit a building within or immediately next to a medical clinic operated by the IRGC at the base. Last week, investigations by CNN and other media outlets suggested the US was likely responsible for the strike. Satellite imagery, geolocated videos, public statements from US officials and the assessment of munitions experts suggest that the school was hit at around the same time as an attack that American forces likely carried out on a neighboring IRGC naval base. The US Department of Defense did not immediately respond to questions about the use of a Tomahawk missile on Sunday. When previously asked about the strikes, US Central Command told CNN that “it would be inappropriate to comment given the incident is under investigation.” The new video shows smoke nearby at the time of the strike, suggesting nearby sites may also have been targeted shortly before. “The geolocated video shows a cruise missile hitting one of the centrally located buildings at the base,” said Lair. He added that while the video does not show the moment of impact on the school, it “was likely part of the same strike and would have been accompanied by other, similar cruise missiles.” CNN is continuing efforts to obtain images of the remnants of the munition that hit the school. Such evidence is key in assessing responsibility for a strike, and without it, assessments cannot be conclusive. On Saturday, Trump cast blame upon Iran for the Minab strike, contradicting analyses from CNN and other media outlets. “Based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. Trump further characterized Iranian munitions as “very inaccurate.” Asked by a reporter whether that was true, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, “We’re certainly investigating. But the only side that targets civilians is Iran.” The White House has not previously ruled out that US military personnel carried out the strike. Iran has blamed the US for the Minab school strike, according to Iranian state media.The Israeli military said it carried out a strike in Beirut overnight that killed several senior commanders from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force. In a statement on Sunday, Israel Defense Forces said the strike targeted five commanders from the Quds Force’s Lebanon Corps and Palestine Corps. The IDF said they were reportedly meeting at a hotel in the Lebanese capital. According to IDF, the Lebanon Corps of the Quds Force serves as a key link between Hezbollah and Iran. Lebanon said the strike, which targeted a hotel room in Beirut at dawn, killed four people and injured 10 others, according to the state-run National News Agency.A seventh US service member died in the Iran war, US Central Command announced today, saying the American died from injuries received from a March 1 attack on US troops in Saudi Arabia. “Last night, a U.S. service member passed away from injuries received during the Iranian regime’s initial attacks across the Middle East,” US Central Command. “The service member was seriously wounded at the scene of an attack on U.S. troops in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on March 1.” The name of the service member is being withheld until 24 hours after their next of kin is notified, as is custom.for the six soldiers who were killed in the war last week in Kuwait. President Donald Trump and other top officials joined the families of those troops as their loved ones were brought home at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. The president has previously said there will likely be more US casualties in the Iran war. Asked Saturday whether he thought he would have to attend more dignified transfers, Trump said, “I’m sure. I hate to … but it’s a part of war.”After Iranian missile debris caused damage in central Tel Aviv, investigators are scrutinizing the scene to determine if there is evidence of new Iranian missile technology. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh explains.Khamenei’s name as Iran’s leader will continue, a member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, the body tasked with choosing Iran’s next supreme leader, said Sunday, although a final decision has not yet been announced. In a video carried by Iranian media, Hosseinali Eshkevari said “the issue of determining the leadership… has been completed.” “The name of Khamenei will continue. The vote has been cast and I hope that it will be announced by the authorities,” he said. “There is no need to worry.” Eshkevari’s comment suggests that Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will be announced supreme leader. Khamenei, 56, is a mid-ranking cleric who does not hold an official role in the regime, but who is known to have strong links to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps . US President Donald Trump said Thursday that Khamenei’s appointment as his father’s successor would be “unacceptable” to him.President Donald Trump and administration officials are attempting to allay concerns over rising gas prices as the war with Iran presses on, calling the pain at the pump a short-term effect.about the effect on Americans at the pump. He went on to describe the rapid climb in prices as an expected “detour.” Since the fighting started in Iran a week ago, gasoline prices are up 47 cents, or 16%, to $3.45 for a gallon of regular, according to Sunday’s AAA reading.. “This is a short-term disruption for the long-term gain of taking out the rogue Iranian terrorist regime and finally ending their restriction of the free flow of energy in the Middle East and in the Strait of Hormuz,” she said. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum echoed those remarks, saying the rise in prices is not due to a global oil shortage, but rather a “transit issue” caused by disruptions to shipping through the crucialWright also attempted to tout the Trump administration’s success lowering energy costs for Americans, while faced with the fact that “Gasoline today is still $1.50 a gallon cheaper than it was in the middle of Biden administration, but you’re right; we want it back below $3 a gallon, and it will be again before too long,” Wright told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”Health-care workers at the Karapitiya hospital in Galle, Sri Lanka, carry the bodies of Iranian sailors who died in a US torpedo attack on the frigate IRIS Dena off Sri Lanka's southern coast on March 4, 2026.Iran said at least 104 crew members were killed and 32 others injured in a US attack on the Iranian warshipUS Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that a US submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters. The injured crew members were taken to a hospital in Sri Lanka for treatment after authorities there launched a rescue mission, according to Fars.President Donald Trump said Sunday that the new supreme leader “is not going to last long” without his approval as Iran prepares to announce a successor to its longtime ruler, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Trump has repeatedly said he wants to be involved in the selection of Iran’s next leader, saying yesterday that he doesn’t “want to come back every 10 years.” “We want to pick a president that’s not going to be leading their country into a war,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday. “I mean, it depends on who the person is. I don’t mind religious leaders. I deal with a lot of religious leaders and they are fantastic,” he said last week.A CNN team on the ground in Tehran said it heard a wave of strikes a short while ago. The Israeli military hit what it said was the headquarters of theappearing unconcerned about the war’s effect on Americans at the pump. US Energy Secretary Chris Wright told CNN the US hasor other energy infrastructure, as Israel has done. Wright sought to assure Americans that average gas prices would fall back below $3 within weeks.United Arab Emirates doesn’t seek to be drawn into an escalation with Iran but reserves the right to protect its sovereignty, the foreign ministry said. Separately,CNN’s Abbas Al Lawati, Tamar Michaelis, Billy Stockwell, Tim Lister, Kit Maher, Haley Britzky and Catherine Nicholls contributed to this report.Two people were killed and 12 others injured after a military projectile struck a residential facility in Al-Kharj, about 107 km southeast of Riyadh, Saudi Civil Defense said. The incident marks the first reported deaths in the kingdom since the start of the war with Iran. Saudi Civil Defense said emergency teams responded on Sunday after the projectile struck a housing site used by a maintenance and cleaning company.Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said earlier on Sunday that it had targeted radar systems at several locations, including in Al-Kharj, Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB reported. Al-Kharj lies near Prince Sultan Air Base, a major Saudi air force installation southeast of Riyadh that has been targeted by Iran repeatedly in recent days.amid the war with Iran is not due to a global oil shortage, but rather a “transit issue” caused by disruptions to shipping through the “This is not about lack of oil in the world. This is about a transit issue. This is about the Strait of Hormuz,” Burgum said on Fox News’ “Sunday Briefing.” Burgum echoed other Trump administration officials, saying that with sustained military success, oil can be expected to start flowing out of the strait again “in the weeks ahead.” He also argued the US has limited reliance on the region, saying only roughly 3% of US energy imports move through the strait. Very few ships have transited the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial channel through which 20% of the world’s oil passes, since the war began more than a week ago.Since the fighting started in Iran a week ago, gasoline prices are up 47 cents, or 16%, to $3.45 for a gallon of regular, according to Sunday’s AAA reading.US President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer shake hands during a press conference in Aylesbury, England, in September 2025.British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke with Donald Trump about the Middle East on Sunday, Starmer’s office said in a statement, a day after the US president criticized the United Kingdom’s lack of immediate support for the US-Israeli strikes on Iran. “The leaders began by discussing the latest situation in the Middle East and the military cooperation between the UK and US through the use of RAF bases in support of the collective self-defence of partners in the region,” Starmer’s office said in a statement.The call came after Trump on Saturday slammed Britain on social media for “finally giving serious thought” to deploying aircraft carriers to the Middle East. He told Starmer “we don’t need them anymore,” but stressed: “We will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!” Trump’s post was the second time he has criticized Starmer in recent days. At the White House on Tuesday, Trump said he was “not happy” with Starmer. In Parliament on Wednesday, Starmer said he was not prepared for Britain “to join a war unless I was satisfied there was a lawful basis and a viable, thought-through plan.”Several Democratic lawmakers are signaling their opposition to a potential request for more funding for the Pentagon in light of the Iran war, arguing the Trump administration has not adequately outlined its objectives or expectations for how long the war might last. Congress last year authorized nearly $900 billion in funding for military programs in a bipartisan package to fund the Defense Department through this fiscal year. But the Trump administration has briefed lawmakers on the potential need for more money amid the conflict, which analysts estimate is costing American taxpayers “At this particular point in time, the administration has failed to make its case as to the rationale or justification for this war of choice in the Middle East,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told NBC’s “Meet the Press” today. It was unclear even after the Trump administration’s briefings with lawmakers how much money the Pentagon may ask for, when that request would come and how long officials expect the war to last. The chances of advancing a package with the 60 votes needed in the Senate are also uncertain, as some Democrats, like Sen. Chris Murphy, make clear they are firmly opposed. “If you support the troops, then you should be voting against funding this war so that we get our troops out of harm’s way,” Murphy told CNN’s “State of the Union.”an effort to rein in Trump’s war powers in Iran last week, but some have indicated their position may change if the conflict drags on. Opposition from some Republicans could prove tricky for the administration’s efforts to get more money out of Congress.President Donald Trump called higher gas prices “a little glitch,” appearing unconcerned about the effect on Americans at the pump as the war with Iran has reached its ninth day. “I think it’s fine. It’s a little glitch. We had to take this detour. I knew exactly what was going to happen with the detour,” Trump toldin an interview. “But the nice part is we sank 44 of their ships, which is their entire navy,” he said, going on to tout the US military’s efforts in the war.Trump also claimed that the US conflict with Iran is “more popular than ever,” despite polling that suggests otherwise and dissent from some MAGA Republicans. “It’s a very MAGA thing what we’re doing,” he said, adding, “Because otherwise we won’t have a country either, we’ll be hit. And MAGA is all about saving America.”“The parents would be upset if I did that,” he said. “The parents said to me, every one of them, ‘Please sir, win this for my boy,’ and in one case a young woman, as you know. ‘Please, win this for my child.’”Thousands of people who were stranded in the Middle East have been evacuated on repatriation flights in recent days, according to local authorities, as the current conflict spirals across the region.The United States has facilitated “nearly two dozen charter flights and has safely evacuated thousands of Americans from the Middle East,” Assistant Secretary of State Dylan Johnson said. The US State Department has “directly assisted over 19,000 Americans abroad, offering security guidance and travel assistance,” Johnson added.for the United Kingdom, with a third planned to depart on Sunday, the British foreign office said on Saturday night. Almost 27,000 Brits have left the region since March 1, it said, though it did not clarify if this number includes people who traveled back to the UK without government assistance.More than 650 people have been evacuated on three government-organized flights from Muscat, Oman to Frankfurt in the last week, a source from German Federal Foreign Office told CNN. A fourth flight from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was on its way to Germany on Sunday afternoon, they said.More than 500 Greek citizens and their families were evacuated from Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain to Athens on Saturday, Greece’sevacuated to Berlinon a flight to Tallinn, as well as the above flight to Riga, Estonia’s foreign minister said Saturday morning. Four more flights were planned to depart Dubai this weekend, he said.Fire and smoke rise in the Fujairah oil industry zone, caused by debris after interception of a drone by air defenses, in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, on March 4.The United Arab Emirates doesn’t seek to be drawn into an escalation with Iran but reserves the right to protect its sovereignty, the foreign ministry said. “The UAE stresses that it does not seek to be drawn into conflicts or escalation,” foreign ministry spokesperson Afra Al Hameli posted on X. “However, the UAE reaffirms its full right to take all necessary measures to safeguard its sovereignty, national security, and territorial integrity… in accordance with international law and the UN Charter.” The UAE has been among the hardest hit of the roughly dozen countries that have reported being struck by Iranian projectiles. Earlier on Sunday, the Jerusalem Post reported that the UAE had struck an Iranian desalination plant in its first attack on the country, citing an unidentified Israeli source. The paper later cited a UAE official denying the report. Ali Al Nuaimi, chairman of the UAE legislature’s Defense, Interior and Foreign Affairs Committee, posted on X in Farsi that the UAE “categorically denies” reports about its targeting of desalination facilities in Iran, “and emphasizes that it has no intention of entering into any conflict or escalating tensions.” Anwar Gargash, adviser to the UAE president, said on X that the country was in a defensive position in the war and that any measures it takes “will be public and clear, and will not rely on press leaks or narratives from unknown sources and intentions.” The Jerusalem Post last week reported, citing unidentified Western diplomats, that Qatar had carried out its first strike against Iran, which Qatar denied.The Israeli military said it has begun “wide-scale strikes” on Iranian regime targets in capital city Tehran and in “additional areas” in the country.“The IDF targeted and dismantled the Iranian terror regime’s IRGC Space Force headquarters. The headquarters served as a reception, transmission, and research center for the Iranian Space Agency, which is affiliated with the regime’s military,” the Israel Defense Forces said.In addition, the IDF said it had struck dozens of other sites including around 50 bunkers that it said stored ammunition, as well as an IRGC compound and an internal security center.
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