Iran launches missiles as Khamenei’s son takes charge

A big flag of Iran waving in the wind in Tehran, Iran.

Iran fired missiles at Israel and Gulf nations early Monday after the Islamic Republic named Mojtaba Khamenei its new leader to succeed his late father, despite threats by the United States and Israel to target him next.

Nine days after US-Israeli strikes killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and plunged the Middle East into war, Iranian clerics picked the country’s third supreme leader since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Israel launched a new wave of strikes, this time targeting infrastructure in central Iran, as the expanding war sent stocks plunging and crude prices surging 30 per cent on supply disruption fears.

Saudi Arabia intercepted drones headed for an eastern oil field, while the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait reported missile attacks, and Bahrain said sirens were activated. Punch