HERE are the latest events in the Middle East war on Sunday:
• Fuel distribution in the Iranian capital has been temporarily halted after US-Israeli strikes on depots, an official said. Huge fires burned after the strikes on five facilities in and around Tehran, casting a dark haze across the city as morning broke, AFP journalists said.
• Iran’s clerical body tasked with choosing the country’s next supreme leader has agreed on a candidate but the name is yet to be announced, members said. Iranian officials have rejected US President Donald Trump’s demand he have a say in selecting a successor.
• Lebanon said an Israeli strike on a Beirut hotel killed four people. The Israeli military said it carried out a “precise strike” in Beirut targeting commanders from the foreign operations arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the Quds Force.
• Explosions hit Iran’s central Yazd province on Sunday, state media said. It was not immediately clear what was struck but the official IRNA news agency said the blasts occurred on the periphery of Yazd city.
• Three Indonesian crew members are missing after a UAE-flagged tugboat was hit by a blast and sank in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, Jakarta’s foreign ministry said. Of the ship’s seven crew members, one survivor was receiving burn treatment in Oman, and search missions continue for the missing three.
• Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain all reported new attacks. In Kuwait, two border guards were killed while on duty, the interior ministry said. The military said fuel tanks at the country’s international airport were targeted in a drone attack. Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry reported intercepting 15 drones, including an attempted attack in the diplomatic quarter of the capital Riyadh. Bahrain said three people were wounded by falling missile debris and that a water desalination plant was damaged.
• Iran’s Revolutionar y Guards said the country’s forces can fight an “intense war” for six months, with a spokesman saying more advanced missiles would be used in the coming days.
• Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country “will be forced to respond” to any attack or invasion attempt from a neighbouring country. “Responding does not mean we have disputes with that country or wish to harm its people — we would be responding out of necessity,” he said in remarks broadcast on state TV.
• A Sri Lanka hospital discharged 22 Iranian crew members who survived the sinking of their warship by a US submarine, with another 10 still receiving treatment.
AFP
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