DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

The five players, including team captain Zahra Ghanbari, sought protection after the team were branded "wartime traitors" for refusing to sing their national anthem before an Asian Cup match.

Khamenei was publicly identified as the supreme leader late on Sunday night, after nearly a week of delayed and disrupted proceedings by the Assembly of Experts.

“Once every small city has its own plan or facility, not only for renewable energy, it becomes far more difficult for a single strike to collapse the system,” he said.

Iran has sometimes played up differences between hardliners and moderates as a negotiating tactic with the West, but the dispute over Pezeshkian's statement on Saturday revealed genuine divisions.

Anat Mastor, head of perfusion at Save A Child’s Heart, recalls childhood under the Islamic regime. Escaped in 1987 as a Jewish teen, she now saves children globally while hoping for Iranian freedom.

Mojtaba was a mid-ranking cleric, but with close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps • Iran's ideology frowns on hereditary succession • IDF will 'pursue every successor'

BUSINESS AFFAIRS: With gatherings and nonessential work from the office prohibited, and airlines doing their best to avoid the region, multiple industries have been deeply affected by the war.

An Azerbaijani Turkic political prisoner held in Orumiyeh Central Prison was reportedly denied medical attention for hours after suffering a heart attack.

Many experts have reportedly taken issue with “hereditary leadership." Mojtaba Khamenei has also formed close political alliances with Ahmad Vahidi, the newly appointed IRGC commander.

Mohammed, who co-founded and directed the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, was rushed to hospital where she perished from her wounds, according to local reports and Amnesty International.