Iran launched missiles at Israel and Gulf countries early on Monday after Mojtaba Khamenei was appointed as the Islamic republic’s next leader to succeed his late father, despite warnings from Israel and the United States to attack him next. Iranian clerics chose the nation’s third supreme leader since the 1979 Islamic Revolution nine days after US-Israeli strikes killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and sparked a conflict in the Middle East.
As the growing conflict caused equities to plummet and crude prices to soar 30% due to concerns about supply interruption, Israel started a fresh round of strikes, this time focusing on infrastructure in central Iran. Drones bound for an oil field in the east were intercepted by Saudi Arabia, missile assaults were reported by Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, and sirens were triggered in Bahrain.
Authorities announced on Monday that Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s deceased supreme leader, would be the next ruler of the Islamic Republic. The AP On Iranian official media, the announcement of Khamenei’s appointment was accompanied by a photo of the new 56-year-old leader and a solemn reading of a statement from the 88-member Assembly of Experts. Based on the unanimous vote of the esteemed members of the Assembly of Experts, Khamenei is named and introduced as the third head of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s sacred system, according to the statement.
It said that in spite of “the brutal aggression of the criminal America and the evil Zionist regime,” the clerical body “did not hesitate for a minute” in selecting a new head. The Islamic honorific “At Your Command, Sayyid Mojtaba” appeared on a projectile purportedly fired at Israel, according to state media.
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