DUBAI, March 11 (Reuters) - Newly-appointed Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was lightly injured but is continuing to operate, an Iranian official told Reuters on Wednesday.
The official did not give details about when he was injured or why he had not made any statement to the public since being appointed the new leader.
(Reporting by Parisa Hafezi, Writing by Dubai Newsroom, Editing by Andrew Heavens)
BRUSSELS, March 11 (Reuters) - European Union envoys have approved new sanctions targeting 19 Iranian officials and entities responsible for serious human rights violations, the bloc's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said on Wednesday.
"As the Iran war continues, the EU will protect its interests and pursue those responsible for domestic repression," Kallas said on X, adding that "it also sends a message to Tehran that Iran’s future cannot be built on repression".
By Rami Ayyub, Samia Nakhoul and Parisa Hafezi
JERUSALEM/DUBAI, March 11 (Reuters) - Israeli officials in closed discussions have acknowledged there is no certainty the war against Iran will lead to a collapse of its clerical government, a senior Israeli official told Reuters, with no sign of an Iranian uprising amid the bombardment.
However, despite commentary by U.S. President Donald Trump that the war may finish soon, Israel's assessment is that Washington is not close to instructing an end to the conflict, two Israeli officials said.
By Eli Berlzon
JERUSALEM, March 11 (Reuters) - After helping to identify the remains of the last Israeli hostage in Gaza, dentist Esi Sharon-Sagie hoped her work naming the dead killed in more than two years of war was finally over. Weeks later she was called back to duty.
On February 28, a U.S.-Israel air assault in Iran ignited a war now engulfing the Middle East and Sharon-Sagie is again seeking to give a name to those whose bodies are too badly mutilated for visual identification techniques.
MADRID, March 11 (Reuters) - Spain government on Tuesday decided to remove its ambassador to Israel, according to the official state gazette published on Wednesday.
Spain's embassy in Tel Aviv will be led by a charge d'affares, a source at the Foreign Ministry said.
(Reporting by Emma Pinedo and Victoria Waldersee; editing by Charlie Devereux)
By Pesha Magid and Ali Sawafta
ABU FALAH, West Bank, March 11 (Reuters) - Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank are taking advantage of curbs on movement imposed during the war on Iran to attack Palestinians, with military roadblocks preventing ambulances reaching victims quickly, rights groups and medics say.
By Samia Nakhoul
DUBAI, March 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. may have pulled the trigger on the Iran war, but it is the oil-producing Gulf that will pay the price, Gulf sources and analysts say, signalling unease in ties between a region under Iranian attack and the superpower it relies on for protection.
DUBAI, March 11 (Reuters) - Three vessels have been hit by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz, maritime security agencies and sources said on Wednesday, as one of the strikes led to a fire onboard a ship and forced most of its crew to evacuate it.
The Thailand-flagged bulk carrier Mayuree Naree was targeted and damaged approximately 11 nautical miles north of Oman, two maritime security sources said.
By Sabine Siebold
BERLIN, March 11 (Reuters) - Ukrainian military trainers will help Germany's military meet a target of being ready to defend against any Russian attack on NATO by 2029, the German army chief said, in a role reversal after years of Western troops training Ukrainian forces.
Berlin and Kyiv agreed last month that Ukraine would send military instructors to German army schools to teach lessons they have learned from fighting against Russia's invasion.
Global airlines are grappling with the effects of the war in the Middle East, as fuel prices soar and customers reassess their travel plans.
The war has sent the price of oil and gas soaring, after Iran's Revolutionary Guards vowed to choke off traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's key energy transit routes.
The average global price of jet fuel has surged even faster, reaching $173.91 per barrel on Monday, according to the Platts benchmark index, double what it was on the levels of January 2.
