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The Israeli military warned it would continue pursuing every successor of Iran’s next supreme leader.
In a post on X in Farsi, the Israeli military said it would also pursue every person who seeks to appoint a successor for slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, referring to the clerical body charged with selecting Iran’s next supreme leader.
The comments came after Iranian news agency Mehr news reported that he clerical body that will choose Iran’s next supreme leader has more or less reached a majority consensus.
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US-Israeli attacks on Iran violated international law, Swiss defence minister says
Swiss defence minister Martin Pfister has said the US and Israel have violated international law with their attacks on Iran.
“The Federal Council is of the opinion that the attack on Iran constitutes a violation of international law,” Pfister told Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung in an interview published today.
“In our view it constitutes a violation on the prohibition of violence,” he added, calling on all parties involved to stop the attacks in order to protect civilians.
“The Americans and Israel have attacked Iran from the air. In doing so, they, like Iran, violated international law,” Pfister said.
There is consensus among legal experts the Guardian spoke to that the initial strikes on Iran by the US and Israel were unlawful.
My colleague Julian Borger neatly sums up the opinion of many legal experts here when he says the attack on Iran is a clear violation of the UN charter, in any absence of any credible, imminent Iranian threat to the US.
US- Israeli airstrikes in Iran have damaged about 10,000 civilian structures across the county, the Iranian Red Crescent Society said.
The Red Crescent said the structures include 7,943 residential units and 1,617 commercial units along with several medical and educational facilitiess.
In an update issued at 07:00 local time (05:00 GMT) this morning, Israel’s ministry of health said that 1,929 people had been injured and evacuated to hospitals since the start of the war.
Of these, 122 remain hospitalised or in emergency departments, it said. The health ministry said 157 people were treated over the past day. We have not been able to independently verify these claims yet.
An Israeli airstrike hit a hotel in central Beirut on Sunday, killing at least four people, according to Lebanese health officials.
US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran have killed 200 children, health ministry says
US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran have killed 200 children (under the age of 12) and about 200 women since the war started on 28 February, Hossein Kermanpour, the spokesperson for Iran’s health ministry, said in a post on X.
He said they were among more than 1,200 people killed in the war. He said more than 10,000 civilians had been injured, including 1,400 women. Kermanpour said health infrastructure had been targeted in the US-Israeli attacks, with nine hospitals now out of service and 14 ambulances “destroyed”.
We have not yet been able to independently verify any of these claims.
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The French president, Emmanuel Macron, will visit Cyprus on Monday to meet the president Nikos Christodoulides. France sent defence systems and a frigate to the Mediterranean island last week after it was hit by a drone strike on the British RAF base Akrotiri.
Macron will also meet the Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on the trip.
The Elysee said the visit was aimed at showing France’s “solidarity” with Cyprus, an EU member, in order to “reinforce security around Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean” with our European partners, and to contribute to “de-escalation in the region.”
Macron said last week that France’s presence in the area would be “strictly defensive” in support of its regional allies.
Two other civilians, from Nepal and Bangladesh, have been killed by missile debris in Dubai since the US and Israel launched a war against Iran on 28 February, triggering Iran to respond with missile and drone attacks on its Gulf neighbours.
Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, has said he is “deeply saddened by the tragic death of two Pakistani nationals in Dubai caused by missile debris”. In a statement on X, he added:
Our diplomatic missions in the UAE are in close contact with the Dubai authorities to provide all necessary assistance and to facilitate the repatriation process. Our hearts go out to the bereaved family in this hour of grief.
The US embassy in Oslo was hit by a loud explosion early on Sunday morning, causing minor damage but no injuries, according to Norwegian police. The blast at the embassy compound in western Oslo reportedly occurred at about 1am local time (0000 GMT).
Police are searching for one or more potential perpetrators, with Norway’s justice minister, Astri Aas-Hansen, saying they had deployed “considerable resources” to the investigation. “This is an unacceptable incident that we are taking very seriously,” she told Norwegian press agency NTB.
Yvette Cooper sidestepped a question about UK-US relations being in trouble by saying there is still close cooperation on a range of issues, although divergence can happen as she said it is not in the British interest to “unquestioningly agree” with every strand of American policy.
She made the point of saying it was “important to learn the lessons” from the devastating US-led invasion of Iraq, when it comes to Iran.
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