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“Celebrations in Tehran, this morning on News, a new supreme leader has been named to succeed”
his father, who was killed in Israeli strikes on the first day of the U.S. role war against Iran. The developments met with mixed reactions, though, around the globe, and PR's Abetrawait has more on the 56-year-old successor. A body known as the assembly of experts overwhelmingly chose Mustafa Hamani as Iran's new
supreme leader. He's viewed as a hard liner with close ties to security, who helped lead violent crackdowns on anti-government protesters.
The paramilitary Iranian revolutionary guard corps congratulated Mustafa Hamani's ascension
to succeed his father, Ayatollah Ali Hamani. The IRGC said in a statement that it pledges obedience to the new leader and urged Iranians to heed his command in the face of quote, "blood thirsty arrogant powers." Political leaders in Iran and the country's supreme national security council also pledged allegiance to the new leader.
Iran's health ministry says U.S. Israeli strikes have killed 1,200 people, a third of them women in children. Ayatollah Ali NPR News, Dubai. The war in Iran pushed global crude oil prices, passed $100 per barrel for the first time in four years, NPR's Camila Dominozki reports the past week has caused traders to lose
hope for a quick resolution to the conflict.
“The straight of her moves, a key waterway for the oil trade, remains effectively closed.”
The U.S. government has offered ship owners insurance and naval escorts for the passage, but the money available would only cover a fraction of the need, and companies are wary of risking ships and the lives of their crew. Attacks against infrastructure also continue, including Israel's attacks on oil facilities and Iran over the weekend.
An analyst with the App Gas Buddy says the average price of gasoline in the U.S. is likely to hit $4 this week. It was under $3 before the war began. Camila Dominozki and PR News. In a major win for employees, advice of America, federal judges ruled Trump loyalist Kerry Lake
illegally ran its parent entity, the U.S. agency for global media last year. The court finds the mass layoffs lake over saw there and it via way or void.
And PR's David Folk and Flake was the first journalist to question Lake's legal authority
to run B.O.A.
“Kerry Lake in President Trump have attacked it as basically being propaganda and hostile”
to President Trump itself. She sought to effectively dismantle it. So she laid off hundreds and hundreds of employees at Voice America in a couple of its sister network. She tried to cut off funding from other networks like rate of free Asia, rate of free
Europe, rate of liberty that are funded by the federal government to reach other foreign lands. She canceled a contract for a new headquarters that her predecessor said would save tens of millions of dollars for the federal government, and she basically tried to cut these things down to the bone to essentially make it impossible for them to continue to function.
That's NPR's David Folk and Flick reporting. It's NPR News. New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch says authorities are now investigating whether an incident during counter-protests outside New York City's mayoral residence Saturday was inspired by the Islamic State, which says men brought improvised explosive devices that
were hurled during the Saturday but demonstration led by far-right activists Jake Lang. Tisch says the devices did not explode. Two people are in custody but have not been charged. Dozens of countries are meeting in Jamaica this week to develop rules from mining the deep sea.
Some countries are pushing the harvest critical minerals there to use in batteries and other
technology. NPR's Lawrence Summer has details. More than 10,000 feet below the surface of the ocean, there are potato-sized rocks on the sea floor. They're polymetallic nodules, which grow slowly over millions of years, accumulating metals
like nickel and cobalt. With demand for batteries growing, mining companies are pushing to start commercially harvesting them. Motion signed to say that could hurt the deep sea ecosystem, where the majority of life is still unknown to science.
Countries are meeting this week to negotiate rules about mining and international waters. The Trump administration is not part of that process and is moving ahead on its own with permitting deep sea mining. Lauren Summer and PR News. U.S. stocks trading lower this hour with the Dow down 428 points are nearly 1% at 47,072.
The S&P's down 30 points at 6709, the NASDAQ is down 13 points. This is NPR News.
