Iran war live: Tehran says US wants to ‘partition country, take oil’
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Iran war live: Tehran says US wants to ‘partition country, take oil’
Al Jazeera-March 9th2026
By Caolán Magee, Umut Uras and Edna Mohamed
- Iran’s military and political leaders have pledged allegiance to Mojtaba Khamenei, who has been named to replace his killed father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the country’s new supreme leader.
- The US and Israel continue to bombard Iran, with explosions reported in Qom and Tehran, hours after Israeli attacks on oil facilities caused toxic smoke across the Iranian capital.
- Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei says the attacks aimed “at partitioning our country to take illegal possession of our oil riches”.
- Oil prices have jumped more than 25 percent, to their highest levels since mid-2022, as some major producers slash supplies and fears of prolonged shipping disruptions grip the market due to the expanding war.
- An eighth US soldier has been confirmed killed a day after US President Donald Trump paid tributes at a ceremony honouring soldiers who died in the conflict.
- Visit our live tracker for the latest on casualty figures from across the region.
Israel media ‘blackout’ on attacks as military censor targets reporters
Throughout this war – I have to say I’ve never seen anything like it – the military censor has been adamant.
It has imposed basically an information blackout on where these missiles and rockets are falling, and how many have been fired by Iran or Hezbollah. It is having authorities arrest journalists who are deemed to have said too much on the air.
Meanwhile, we know now two people have been killed today in Israel in an area close to Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv.
From eyewitness reports, we know some of the missiles Iran is firing have cluster warheads, which means they splinter and have a wide geographic scope and can create a lot of damage.
It takes emergency crews a long time to comb through the targeted area to make sure there’s no unexploded ordnance.
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