Global oil prices have jumped above $110 (£82.74) a barrel and stock markets have slumped as the escalating US-Israeli war with Iran has fuelled fears of prolonged disruption to shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran on Sunday named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father Ali Khamenei as Supreme Leader, signalling that a week into the conflict hardliners remain in charge of the country.

Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s slain leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was chosen to succeed him in a decision announced on Monday by the Assembly of Experts. Iran’s clerical body named Mojtaba as the country’s new supreme leader amid ongoing war and US-Israeli airstrikes.

US President Donald Trump has once again threatened Iran, saying the country’s next leader “is not going to last long” without US approval and claiming Tehran must bow to his demands to avoid further conflict.

In spite of a last minute venue cancellation by Adelaide University, a sold-out Adelaide crowd heard from Chris Sidoti, Francesca Albanese, Henry Reynolds and Lana Tatour on lessons and links for Australia on settler colonialism and the Israel/Palestine conflict.

The event was hosted by Association for the Promotion of International Law (APIL).

It’s not okay for grown adults to believe the United States wages wars to promote humanitarian interests and bring freedom and democracy to oppressed populations.

It’s not okay for grown adults to believe that US soldiers fight and die to protect their country and its citizens.

It’s not okay for grown adults to believe US military interventionism in the middle east has anything to do with women’s rights or making life better for women.

It’s not okay for grown adults to believe good things come from the US military attacking middle eastern nations and toppling their governments.

It’s not okay for grown adults to believe the US government tells the truth about its wars and the reasons it wages them.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) claims that a Pentagon source says military officials are preparing a public defense for military commanders telling troops that the Iran war is a holy war, fulfilling evangelical Protestant prophecy.

Report: Pentagon Eyes Defending “Armageddon” Briefings

Religious-freedom group claims a Pentagon source reports some are defending the briefings as personal speech

BY JONATHAN LARSEN

Iranian media have shared a Lego-style video touting Tehran’s purported retaliation against the US and Israel, depicting the American and Israeli leadership in a panic.

The animation, dubbed ‘Narrative of Victory,’ was widely circulated online on Sunday. It opens with a cartoonish figure of US President Donald Trump – accompanied by the Devil – reading the Jeffrey Epstein files.

The US president is then shown going haywire and ordering strikes on Iran, apparently implying that the attack was meant to distract everyone from a domestic scandal involving the late sex offender’s ties with American elites.

Right now, in the first week of March 2026, Europe is facing an energy crisis that doesn't have a name yet. Not because it isn't big enough, but because it happened too fast. In the last 48 hours, two things went down simultaneously.

First, Iran struck the heart of Qatar's gas infrastructure—the largest LNG export facility on the planet. Production stopped.

The Strait of Hormuz, the hallway for 20% of the world's LNG, is now a closed war zone. Second, and this is the part that is just sinking in, Europe realized it accidentally cut off its own supply from Russia.

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) told Sean Hannity on Tuesday that the U.S. had “already won” the military operation in Iran.

Kennedy joined Hannity to discuss the ongoing U.S. military operation within Iran that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei over the weekend. The Fox News host asked Kennedy to respond to comments made on Monday by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) about the conflict.

The Australian Labor Party has drifted from its historic purpose. This is the first in a six part series by Andrew Brown on Labor’s retreat from reform and what it means for Australia.

Power unused in the face of injustice is not restraint.

It is a choice.

Labor once believed government existed to shape the economy in the service of people. Power was not something to apologise for or tiptoe around. It was something to use. Redistribution was not excess. It was obligation. Stability was not the goal. It was the consequence of justice.

That clarity has thinned.

President Donald Trump has denied US responsibility for the strike on an Iranian school that killed 175 people, most of them children, suggesting instead that a faulty Iranian missile was to blame.

His remarks contradict investigations by AP, CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, which concluded – based on satellite imagery and other visual evidence – that the US likely destroyed a girls’ elementary school in the southern Iranian city of Minab during a February 28 bombardment of nearby Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sites.

Asked on Saturday whether the US was responsible for the strike on the school, Trump said, “In my opinion, based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran.”

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The desert trap: America facing Iran

BY Mohamed Lamine KABA

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” wrote George Santayana in 1905, subsequently generally misquoted as “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it”. Whichever version, Michael Pascoe writes, Trump’s air war on Iran fits the bill.

Among other things, John Kenneth Galbraith, the great American economist, public servant and author, was a key director of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey in 1945. He became very unpopular with the US Air Force for finding that the Allied bombing of Germany wasn’t nearly as effective in weakening Germany’s war machine as the generals and politicians wanted to believe.

US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States Navy will begin escorting commercial tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, a dramatic escalation that would place American warships directly off the coast of Iran as the illegal and murderous US-Israeli bombing campaign enters its fourth day.

Trump’s announcement on Truth Social came just one day after he refused to rule out sending ground troops to Iran. “I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground—like every president says, ‘There will be no boots on the ground.’ I don’t say it,” he told the New York Post.

At a White House press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz Tuesday, Trump spoke about the war in the language of a mob boss—boasting of “hits” on Iranian leaders, referring to assassinations as people being “taken out,” tallying the dead like a gangster counting bodies.