Iranian army says at least 104 killed in US attack on Iranian warship last week
The Iranian army said on Sunday that at ‌least 104 people were killed and 32 were wounded in an attack by the U.S. on an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka's coast last week, Reuters reported.
A U.S. submarine sank the frigate Dena in the Indian Ocean ‌about 19 nautical miles off Sri Lanka's southern port city of Galle on Wednesday, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.
Iran names Khamenei's hardline son Mojtaba as new supreme leader, oil surges
Iran on Monday named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, signaling that hardliners remain firmly in charge, as the week-old U.S.-Israeli war with Iran pushed oil above $100 a barrel, Reuters reported.
Mojtaba, a cleric with influence inside Iran's security forces and vast business networks ‌under his father, had been viewed as a frontrunner in the lead-up to Sunday's vote by the Assembly of Experts, a body of 88 clerics tasked with choosing Ali Khamenei's successor.
"By a decisive vote, the Assembly of Experts, appointed Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei as the third Leader of the sacred system of the Islamic Republic of Iran," the Assembly said in a statement issued just after midnight Tehran time, according to Reuters.
Explosion at US embassy in Oslo may have been terrorism, Norway police say
An overnight explosion at the US embassy in Oslo may have been an act of terrorism, Norway's police have said, BBC reported.
The embassy in the Norwegian capital sustained minor damage after the blast in the early hours of Sunday - but no-one was injured.
"One of the hypotheses is that it is an act of terrorism, but we are not completely locked into it," Frode Larsen, the head of police joint investigation and intelligence unit, told Norway's public broadcaster NRK, according to BBC.
Iran reports civilian deaths
Iran’s Health Ministry says US and Israeli strikes have killed about 200 children and around 200 women in the ongoing conflict. The figures are part of a broader death toll reported across the country AP reported.
According to ministry spokesman Hossein Kermanpour, more than 1,200 people have been killed since the war began.
He also said over 1,000 people have been injured, including around 400 women, since February 28, when the attacks intensified.
