Iran-War LIVE: Trump 'not happy' after Mojtaba Khamenei's appointment as Iran's new supreme leader

The Saudi Ministry of Defence on Monday said that it intercepted and destroyed four drones that had invaded the air space over the country’s Rub al-Khali desert and were heading towards the Shaybah oilfield.

The US President Donald Trump is “not happy” with Iran’s selection of Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader, Fox News anchor Brian Kilmeade said.

US Embassy in Riyadh issued travel advisory for US nationals in Saudi Arabia.

US Embassy in Riyadh in a post on X said, “On March 8, 2026, the Department of State ordered non-emergency U.S. government employees and U.S. government employee family members to leave Saudi Arabia due to safety risks. This amends the prior on March 3, 2026, Department of State authorization for non-emergency U.S. government employees and U.S. government employee family members to leave Saudi Arabia due to safety risks.”

US Senator Lindsey Graham in a post on X said, “I believe it’s just a matter of time before he meets the same fate as that of his father."

The Republican lawmaker from South Carolina, who has long lobbied for attacks on Iran, last week said that he had coached Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on how to lobby Trump for action, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Iran's drone attack in Bahrain wounded nearly 32 people, state owned Bahrain News Agency reported.

As per the report, the youngest person injured was a two-month-old and four were “serious cases.”

US President Donld Trump refused to comment on Mojtaba Khamenei's appointment as Iran's supreme leader and said, “We’ll see what happens.” He said the decision to end the war on Iran will be a “mutual” one that he will make with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, The Times of Israel reported.

“I think it’s mutual… a little bit. We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account,” The Times of Israel quoted Trump as saying.

US Central Command in a post on X said, “A U.S. National Guard Soldier died in a health-related incident in Kuwait on March 6 during a medical emergency. The exact cause of death is under review.”

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth in an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes emphasized that the US is "willing to go as far as we need to be successful" in the war with Iran.

Asserting that the US is "fighting to win" and Donald Trump will "set the terms" of Iran's surrender, he said, "You don’t tell the enemy, you don’t tell the press, you don’t tell anybody what your limits would be on an operation," he says in an interview with the BBC's US partner CBS's 60 Minutes.

Exuding confidence in United States' combat capabilities, he said, "We'll know they are not capable of fighting... whether they know it or not, they will be combat ineffective, they will surrender."

Iran's navy is "largely no more" and will continue to diminish,"this is only just the beginning," Hegseth said.

Iran fired its first missiles at Israel under new supreme leader, according to state media.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's second son Mojtaba Khamenei has been appointed as Iran's new Supreme Leader.

Iran's Head of Center for Public Diplomacy Esmaeil Baqaei issued clarification on the country's “defensive strikes on the US military bases/assets in the region.”

According to Esmaeil Baqaei, US is putting regional security at risk by launching missiles at Iran from “residential areas in the territory of neighbouring countries, and U.S. fighters are using the airspace of neighbouring states to attack Iran.”

Israel's military said two of its soldiers had been killed fighting in southern Lebanon -- the first Israeli troops to have died since fighting flared with Iran's Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, AFP reported.

Six people were wounded, some by shrapnel, at blast sites in central Israel, first responders said. (AFP)

Several blasts were heard in various parts of the Iranian capital, AFP journalists said, AFP reported.

It was not immediately clear what was targeted, with clouds of smoke still shrouding the skyline after overnight strikes on oil depots in and around Tehran. (AFP)

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump held a call on Sunday about the war in the Middle East, said a UK government statement, AFP reported.

It follows days of insults lobbed by Trump at Starmer over the latter's initial refusal to have any role in the US-Israeli war with Iran.

India's ambassador to Saudi Arabia Suhel Ajaz Khan on Sunday held a virtual interaction with representatives of the Indian community and reassured them of assistance following joint US-Israel strikes on Iran, PTI reported.

Khan was accompanied by Deputy Chief of Mission, Abu Mathen George, and Counsellor (Community Welfare), Y Sabir.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told NBC's "Meet the Press", "It is Americans who started this war against us, attacking us, and we are defending ourselves. So it is obvious that our missiles cannot reach the US soil."

"What we can do is to attack American bases and American installations around us, which are unfortunately in the soil of our, you know, neighbor countries." (AFP)

The conflict’s scope expanded dangerously on Sunday when Bahraini authorities accused Iran of damaging a desalination plant, a critical facility that supplies drinking water in the Gulf, raising fears that essential civilian infrastructure is now being drawn into the war, AP reported.

The Israeli military said on Sunday it had struck what it described as the "space force headquarters" of Iran's Revolutionary Guards in Tehran, AFP reported.

"As part of the strikes, the IDF targeted and dismantled the Iranian terror regime's IRGC Space Force headquarters," the military said.

Asked about the apology Saturday by Iran’s president for attacks on “neighboring countries,” Araghchi told NBC’s “Meet the Press" that an apology “in our culture is a sign of dignity and strength.”

He says the apology from President Masoud Pezeshkian was for “the inconveniences they have faced because of this aggression by the United States and retaliation by us.” (AP)

Sen. Mark Warner questioned what he says are the administration’s shifting justifications for the attacking Iran, AP reported.

“We have had four different answers as to the reasons for the war,” the Virginia Democrat told “Fox New Sunday.”

As reported by AP, the vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Warner added, “This is a war of choice … There was no imminent threat. There was not even an imminent threat to Israel.”

Israel military says struck Iran Guards 'space force' HQ, reported AFP.

Saudi Arabia said it intercepted more than a dozen drones while Qatar said Iran fired two cruise missiles and 10 ballistic missiles at the country on Saturday, as reported by AFP.

UAE forces were intercepting incoming missile and drones from Iran, the defence ministry said in a post on X.