Trump-Iran newest: President points contemporary warning to Tehran if it retaliates following Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s killing | EUROtoday

Oman’s maritime safety centre mentioned on Sunday that Palau-flagged oil tanker Skylight was attacked about 5 nautical miles off Oman’s Musandam.

Four folks have been injured and the entire crew of 20 folks was evacuated.

Pakistani police have mentioned that a minimum of 9 folks have been killed in protests over the killing of Iran’s supreme chief in Karachi.

Tear fuel was fired on Sunday to scatter protesters who breached the outer wall of the US consulate within the southern metropolis of Karachi following information of US and Israeli strikes on Iran that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Pro-Iranian protesters additionally gathered exterior the Green Zone within the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the place the U.S. Embassy is positioned.

In Karachi, protesters had been pushed again from the consulate, a spokesman for the native authorities mentioned. Reuters reporter heard sounds of gunfire and video footage from the scenes confirmed burning automobiles exterior the consulate’s primary gate.

No casualties have been reported within the clashes. U.S. diplomats within the consulate weren’t instantly obtainable for remark.

The Israel Defence Forces have confirmed the dying of Iran’s supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in an announcement.

The navy group mentioned: “The IDF has brought to an end a decades-long chapter with the elimination of the leader of the Iranian terror axis.

“His elimination joins a series of eliminations of senior members of the terror axis carried out by the IDF during the war.

“Ali Khamenei’s elimination reflects the promise between the IDF and the citizens of the State of Israel — to strike and thwart any actor that seeks to harm the State of Israel, anywhere and at any time.”

The US embassy in Oman has instructed their workers and all Americans to shelter in place till additional discover as a consequence of “ongoing activity” exterior of the capital metropolis Muscat.

It comes as their state information company stories that their Duqm industrial port has been focused by two drones.

British Airways is providing refunds to passengers who’re booked to journey between London, Heathrow and 6 Middle East locations: Abu Dhabi, Amman, Bahrain, Doha, Dubai or Tel Aviv.

The airline grounded outbound flights to the area on Sunday. BA is telling passengers: “If you are due to fly between London Heathrow and you can change your flight free of charge up to and including 6 March. Customers travelling up to and including 4 March may also request a full refund.

“We are closely monitoring the situation and have cancelled a number of our flights to the Middle East. Safety is always our top priority and we would never operate a flight unless it was safe to do so.”

Virgin Atlantic has cancelled flights to Dubai and Riyadh.

Loud blasts have been heard in Dubai and the Qatari capital Doha for the second day on Sunday, witnesses mentioned, as Iran’s retaliatory strikes on neighbouring Gulf states in response to U.S. and Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic widened.

Iran had mentioned it might goal U.S. bases within the area but it surely has hit a variety of different targets throughout Gulf cities.

Two folks have been injured in Dubai after shrapnel from drones fell over two homes after they have been intercepted, a Dubai Media workplace assertion mentioned.

Dubai’s worldwide airport, its landmark Burj Al Arab resort and posh man-made Palm Jumeirah Island all suffered injury.

Thick black plumes of smoke continued to rise from the Jebel Ali port space the place one of many berths caught hearth earlier on Sunday due to particles from an aerial interception of a missile.

Dubai is the largest tourism and commerce hub within the Middle East and its airport is likely one of the world’s busiest journey hubs.

Qatar’s inside ministry mentioned on Sunday it was responding to a restricted hearth in an industrial zone after particles fell from an intercepted missile.

Iran’s prime safety official, Ali Larijani, mentioned a short lived management council can be arrange.

He accused the United States and Israel of attempting to plunder and disintegrate Iran and warned “secessionist groups” of a harsh response in the event that they try motion, state tv mentioned.

In remarks directed at Trump and his shut ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, mentioned that they had crossed a pink line and would “pay for it”.

A supply briefed on the Israeli marketing campaign informed Reuters there had been no change in navy technique after the killing of Khamenei and that strikes would proceed to focus on Iranian officers and missile infrastructure.

• Iran confirmed that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, was killed in a joint U.S. and Israeli airstrike at his Tehran workplace on Saturday. Iranian state TV mentioned he “consistently stood among the people and at the forefront of his responsibilities, confronting what officials call global arrogance.”

• The strike got here after months of intelligence gathering, and U.S. president Donald Trump mentioned Khamenei’s dying provides Iranians their “greatest chance” to “take back” their nation. Trump additionally referred to as Khamenei “one of the most evil people in History” in a social media publish.

• Iran’s cupboard condemned the killings, saying the “great crime will never go unanswered.” The paramilitary Revolutionary Guard promised its “most intense offensive operation” ever, concentrating on Israeli and U.S. bases. Parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf mentioned, “You have crossed our red line and must pay the price. We will deliver such devastating blows that you yourselves will be driven to beg.”

• Trump responded: “THEY BETTER NOT DO THAT, HOWEVER, BECAUSE IF THEY DO, WE WILL HIT THEM WITH A FORCE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE!”

• Iran launched missiles and drones concentrating on Israel and U.S. navy installations in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar. Israel mentioned dozens of missiles have been fired at its territory, with many intercepted. Magen David Adom, Israel’s medical emergency service, reported one civilian dying close to Tel Aviv.

• Flights throughout the Middle East have been disrupted. In Dubai, explosions from air defence hearth and shrapnel killed one particular person and prompted fires on the metropolis’s primary port and the Burj Al Arab resort.

• The strike additionally killed the top of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Pakpour, and senior safety adviser Ali Shamkhani. Iran rapidly shaped a council to manipulate till a brand new supreme chief is chosen.

Iran’s chief of military workers and defence minister have been killed in an airstrike concentrating on a gathering of the nation’s defence council, Iranian state tv reported Sunday.

General Abdol Rahim Mousavi and defence minister General Aziz Nasirzadeh have been killed on the assembly alongside the top of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and safety adviser Ali Shamkhani, whose deaths Iran beforehand introduced on Sunday morning.