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President Volodymyr Zelensky said that, due to events surrounding Iran, trilateral talks between delegations from Ukraine, the US, and Russia, scheduled for this week, have been postponed at the American side's suggestion.

KARACHI: The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Monday cautioned that the pollution resulting from the recent US-Israeli attacks on Iran’s oil sites could worsen air quality in western parts of the country. “Due to [the] recent situation in Iran, the winds may carry pollutants and deteriorate air quality in the western parts of the country,” read a press release issued by the PMD. Iran, Pakistan’s western neighbour, has been embroiled in a war with the United States and Israel since the latter’s February 28 strikes that assassinated its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Major airstrikes on Tehran’s refineries and fuel depots on March 7 plunged the Iranian capital into a toxic gloom as black, oily rain fell on Sunday. In Tehran, the sun was blotted out by thick black smoke billowing from oil facilities that continued to smoulder. CNN correspondent Frederik Pleitgen described the scene at Tehran’s Shahran oil depot as “apocalyptic”, adding that “breathing the air feels quite toxic”. The Iranian Re...

Donald Trump a declarat luni pentru The New York Post că nu are „nici cea mai mică intenție” să trimită trupe americane în Iran pentru a proteja materialele nucleare de la Isfahan, păstrând secret modul în care intenționează să-l trateze pe noul lider suprem al țării, Mojtaba Khamenei.

The 10th day of the war began with a development that may shape the trajectory of the conflict more than any exchange on the battlefield. Early on Monday, Iran’s Assembly of Experts selected Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader. The transition that happened without any disruption signalled both institutional continuity and a consolidation of authority at a time when Iran remains under sustained military pressure. Within Iran, the appointment was immediately endorsed by the revolutionary core and the political and military elite that publicly pledged allegiance, while state media framed the succession as a stabilising step that ensured the continuity of the political system despite the wartime environment, and there were no signs of unrest in cities, suggesting public acceptance as well. The acceptance of the new supreme leader extended beyond Iran’s borders as well, particularly among actors aligned with Tehran’s regional network of allies in Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen who moved quickly...

Qatari authorities have arrested more than 300 people for sharing images and what they described as “misleading information” during days of attacks by Iran, the interior ministry said on Monday. The arrests echo measures across the Gulf as Iran targets airports, military bases, energy installations and residential areas with daily drones and missiles. Those arrested “filmed and circulated video clips and published misleading information and rumours that could stir public opinion”, a statement said. The people of “various nationalities” were held by the Department for Combating Economic and Cyber Crimes at the ministry’s General Directorate of Criminal Investigations. The announcement follows a spate of arrests elsewhere in the region. In Bahrain, four people were arrested for “filming and broadcasting clips about the effects of Iranian attacks and spreading false news”, the interior ministry said on Friday. And in Kuwait, authorities on Saturday said three people had been arrested over a video showing them mo...

Muhammad Mudassir Tipu has urged Pakistani nationals in Iran who wish to return home to register with the embassy immediately.

Last June, private yachts ferried stranded Israelis between Cyprus and Israel at thousands of shekels per person. During the current war with Iran, flights to nearby airports, winter weather and calmer travelers are killing demand

Global oil markets surge as the U.S.-Iran conflict blocks the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said, 'We are nowhere near normal traffic right now; that will take some time,' as Iraq and Kuwait cut output and regional attacks push prices higher worldwide

Oil prices surged around 25 per cent on Monday to their highest since mid-2022, with Brent on track ‌for a record one-day gain, while gold fell 2pc as an escalating Iran war squeezed world energy supplies, boosted the dollar and dampened hopes of interest-rate cuts. Agriculture markets, led by edible oils, rose as they took their cue from oil prices due to the extensive use ​of vegetable oils in making biofuels. Aluminium firmed on supply worries even as other metals faced headwinds from ​a stronger dollar. “The violent reaction stems from the markets seeing no obvious offramp in the escalating ⁠Middle East conflict, now a high-stakes standoff where neither side appears willing to blink first,” Tony Sycamore, IG market ​analyst, said in a note. “The risk of more lasting economic damage continues to build by the day.” Iran on Monday named Mojtaba Khamenei ​to succeed his father, Ali Khamenei as Supreme Leader. Soaring oil lift vegoils, grains Brent was on track for its biggest one-day gain ever in both percent...

In the first eight days of fighting, the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva topped the list of alerts, but the trend could reverse depending on the escalation with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Meanwhile, rocket fire from Iran has stabilized

Last June, private yachts ferried stranded Israelis between Cyprus and Israel at thousands of shekels per person. During the current war with Iran, flights to nearby airports, winter weather and calmer travelers are killing demand

Mojtaba Khamenei is gekozen als de opvolger van de omgekomen hoogste leider van Iran, Ali Khamenei. Dat heeft de zogenoemde Raad van Experts bekendgemaakt. Dat instituut beslist over de benoeming van geestelijk leiders in Iran.

Mojtaba Khamenei, een van de zonen van Ali Khamenei, is gekozen tot nieuwe opperste leider van Iran. Dat heeft de daartoe bevoegde Assemblee van Experts bekendgemaakt via Iraanse staatsmedia. Volgens ayatollah Hosseinali Eshkevari wordt de naam Khamenei als leider van Iran daarmee doorgezet.

U.S. President Donald Trump has previously called the newly chosen leader a 'lightweight,' saying that he should have a role in the choice of the next leader, a demand Iran has rejected

The U.S. Ambassador to the UN confirmed that the U.S. has 'troops and assets that are focused on seizing weapons of mass destruction if needed and if so ordered,' as Senator Lindsey Graham urged Arab countries to 'get in this fight' and strike Iran

Stocurile de rachete Patriot, esențiale pentru apărarea Ucrainei, se diminuează rapid, prețul petrolului crește și atenția internațională se mută de la războiul european - sunt efectele principale ale războiului din Iran care avantajează Rusia, spune analiștii consultați de „Adevărul”.

Iranian clerics involved in choosing a successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after his assassination a week ago in US-Israeli strikes say they are close to naming the Islamic Republic’s new supreme leader. Iran’s revolutionary theocracy has never been in greater jeopardy, and with the clerical body tasked with naming a new leader ready for an announcement as soon as Sunday, it is hard to predict what might happen next. Israel and the United States have vowed no let-up in their war, promising to kill whoever replaces Khamenei and even those involved in selecting the new leader — a group that may include the clerics who formally make the choice and the Revolutionary Guardsmen and political insiders who influence them. The following explains how power is meant to operate in the Islamic Republic, how a new supreme leader can be chosen, some of the main candidates, and how the US and Israeli attacks have changed the equation. What is Iran’s ‘Supreme Leader’? Iran’s theocratic system dates to the 1979 revolution that...

GWADAR: A fisherman from Gwadar was killed after the debris of an Israeli projectile intercepted by Iranian air defence systems hit his boat in Iranian waters, officials said on Sunday. Gwadar Deputy Commissioner (DC) Naqibullah Kakar confirmed the incident to Dawn that took place on Saturday, saying that the deceased was identified as Muhammad Tayyab, a resident of Gannz, a small coastal town in Balochistan’s Gwadar district. District Police Officer Attaur Rehman also confirmed the incident and told Dawn that Tayyab “went into Iranian waters for Iranian oil”. DC Kakar believes an attempt was made to attack fishing boats in a coastal area of Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province, but the projectile was intercepted and destroyed by the Iranian air defence system. “A portion of the debris from that drone or missile hit Tayyab’s fishing boat, resulting in his death,” he added. The officials said Tayyab’s body was taken to his native town, Gannz, via the sea, and he was later buried. Iran, a neighbour of Pakistan, h...

In various statements on Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump denied claims that a U.S. strike had hit a girls' school in Iran early in the war, or that Russia was providing Iran with intelligence, but was confident of U.S. success in the war: 'we've decimated their whole evil empire'

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar allegedly asked world leaders to shutter diplomatic presence in Tehran. Meanwhile, a diplomatic source says Israel struck against Iran following intelligence of unusually large sums recently transferred to Hamas and Hezbollah