Mojtaba Khamenei

New Supreme Leader of Iran - Named successor to his father

For more than four decades, US embassies in the Middle East and Africa have faced bombings, sieges, and missile strikes. None has been attacked in Western Europe — until an incendiary device detonated at the entrance of the US Embassy in Oslo at 1:00 a.m. on March 8, shattering windows and sending smoke into the street. No one was injured. Norwegian police say terrorism is one hypothesis under investigation, and they are weighing whether the blast is connected to the eight-day-old US-Iran war.

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New Supreme Leader of Iran - Appointed March 8, 2026 by the Assembly of Experts

Roughly one-fifth of the world's oil supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway barely 21 miles wide between Iran and Oman. Nine days into the joint United States-Israeli war on Iran, that traffic has dropped to near zero — and oil has responded accordingly. Brent crude jumped above $101 a barrel on Sunday, the first time oil crossed the $100 mark since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, while West Texas Intermediate hit roughly $107. The price of crude has risen about 50 percent since the first bombs fell on February 28.

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Designated Supreme Leader of Iran (contested) - Selected by Assembly of Experts under IRGC pressure; legitimacy disputed

Iran's Supreme Leader controlled both the presidency and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for over four decades. Eight days after a joint United States-Israeli airstrike killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that unified chain of command has visibly fractured: President Masoud Pezeshkian announced a halt to strikes on neighboring countries and personally apologized to Gulf states for hitting their civilian infrastructure, only for the IRGC to strike a U.S. air base in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) hours later and issue a statement telling the public to 'ignore Pezeshkian's words during the war.'

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