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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

Conflictul dintre SUA și Iran riscă să degenereze, iar iranienii ar putea utiliza „bombe murdare”. Un general de intelligence explică, pentru „Adevărul”, în ce condiții ar exista acest risc.

De Iraanse president zei zaterdag dat Iran buurlanden niet langer zou aanvallen. Maar militairen en hardliners vrezen dat het land daarmee een belangrijke troefkaart uit handen geeft. Bij de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump lijkt de frustratie inmiddels toe te nemen.

A classified report by the National Intelligence Council states that even a large-scale attack on Iran by the United States would be unlikely to oust deeply entrenched military and clerical establishment of the Islamic Republic.

This is the existential moment the Iranian regime has long feared. And although the U.S. and Israel began the war with Iran with congruent strategic objectives, subsequent conflicting statements by President Trump and his administration are mudding the picture

Steeds meer landen raken betrokken bij de oorlog rond Iran. Sommige worden beschoten, andere beschieten weer andere landen, terwijl weer andere strategisch worden meegesleurd. Wie sociale media volgt, kan de indruk krijgen dat een Derde Wereldoorlog is begonnen. Maar is dat ook zo? Militair historicus Christ Klep is helder: nee.

Kuwait has implemented a precautionary reduction in crude oil production and refining throughput after the ongoing attacks by Iran against the country and the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) said on Saturday. The cuts are another disruption for the global energy industry because of the US-Israeli war on Iran, as oil and gas storage at facilities in the Middle East Gulf rapidly fill. Oil fields in Iraq have already cut production and Qatar declared force majeure on its huge volumes of gas exports, while the United Arab Emirates is most likely to cut next. “In light of the ongoing aggression by the Islamic Republic of Iran against the State of Kuwait, including Iranian threats against safe passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, KPC has implemented a precautionary reduction in crude oil production and refining throughput as part of its risk management and business continuity strategy,” it said, adding that it would be “reviewed as the situation develops”. The...

The United States and Israel’s war with Iran could leave consumers and businesses worldwide facing weeks or months of higher fuel prices even if the week-old conflict ends quickly, as suppliers grapple with damaged facilities, disrupted logistics, and elevated risks to shipping. The outlook poses a wider global economic threat, as well as a political vulnerability for US President Donald Trump leading into the midterm elections, with voters sensitive to energy bills and unfavourable to foreign entanglements. “The market is shifting from pricing pure geopolitical risk to grappling with tangible operational disruption, as refinery shutdowns and export constraints begin to impair crude processing and regional supply flows,” JP Morgan analysts said in a research note on Friday. The conflict has already led to the suspension of around a fifth of global crude and natural gas supply, as ships avoid the vital Strait of Hormuz between Iran and Oman amid Tehran’s retaliatory attacks. Global oil prices have surged 24 pe...

Military consultations between Islamabad and Riyadh following Iranian drone and missile strikes on Saudi territory highlight the delicate strategic balance Pakistan must maintain as the Iran conflict expands beyond its original theatre and begins to affect the security of Gulf states. The statement issued by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) after the meeting between the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Saudi Defence Minister Khalid bin Salman, on its face, looks fairly routine and predictable, but when read closely, a careful calibration of language by Pakistan becomes obvious. The Pakistani statement acknowledged the gravity of the situation arising from Iranian drone and missile attacks on the Kingdom and noted that CDF Munir discussed with the Saudi defence minister the measures required to halt them within the framework of the Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement (SMDA) between the two countries. This in itself was a signal of solidarity wi...

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday that his country would never surrender to Israel and the United States, as Middle East war entered its second week. Iran’s enemies “must take their wish for the unconditional surrender of the Iranian people to their graves”, Pezeshkian said, in a speech broadcast on state TV. Israel and the United States launched strikes against Iran on February 28, killing the Islamic republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and triggering a regional conflict. Iran has since responded with missile and drone strikes on Israel and US interests in regional countries, mainly in the Gulf. Pezeshkian is among three members of an interim leadership council that has been in charge of Iran since Khamenei’s killing. During the speech, Pezeshkian apologised to neighbouring countries for Iran’s attacks across the region, saying that they would not be targeted unless attacks originated from them. “I must apologise on my own behalf and on behalf of Iran to the neighbouring countr...

According to Iran's president, Iran is acting defensively against the 'source and origin of aggressive actions' and will maintain strikes on U.S. and Israeli targets, while seeking friendly ties with neighboring states and limiting attacks on them unless provoked

Președintele rus Vladimir Putin s-a pronunțat pentru un armistițiu „imediat” în Iran, în cadrul unei convorbiri telefonice cu omologul său iranian, Masoud Pezeshkian, care a avut loc vineri, potrivit unui comunicat al Kremlinului.