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Iran chooses new supreme leader - but does not name

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BBC

Daily News, News

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Iran says it’s chosen a successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed last week in US-Israeli airstrikes – but the name has yet to be revealed. Meanwhile Israel and the US continue to strike Iran, with oil depots hit, and Iran carries out more strikes on its Gulf Arab neighbours: we hear from Kuwait.

Also in the programme: scientists find a mountain range and huge "blue hole" in the deep Caribbean Sea, with life never before seen; and the American gospel musician finally getting recognition after more than fifty years.

(IMAGE: A demonstrator holds an image of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after he was killed in Israeli and U.S. strikes. Tehran, Iran, March 6, 2026 / CREDIT: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS)

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:09.2

Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.

0:13.1

Coming to you live from London, I'm Regina Fy Dinarthen.

0:17.2

Well, as we come to air, we are getting reports that Iran has reached a consensus on who will replace Ayatollah Ali Hamanai, its supreme leader who was killed in U.S. Israeli strikes a week ago.

0:29.7

Meanwhile, Israel says it will continue to target whoever his successor is.

0:34.7

And so the war continues.

0:36.8

Israel's military bombing, one of Iran's biggest revenue sources,

0:41.0

oil. Huge fireballs lit up the skyline of Tehran on Saturday night as an oil depot was hit.

0:54.0

In one video from the scene, a man says that shops and houses were also on fire.

1:01.8

Well, the Kusar, from the heart of the hummatt, in man, to this way, it's going to doze.

1:10.7

Well, hundreds of targets in Iran have also been struck. And Iran's red crescent says that more than

1:16.7

1300 people have now been killed since the war began. Iran, meanwhile, continues to retaliate,

1:23.8

firing more drones and rockets at Israel, Kuwait and the other Gulf states, with more casualties reported across the region.

1:31.4

And later in the program, we'll hear from Kuwait, where a tower block was set on fire, one of the latest structures to be hit there.

1:39.0

Well, this, of course, is a war that Israel is fighting on two fronts, and it continues to strike targets in neighbouring Lebanon

1:45.2

saying that it's striking key commanders of Iran's elite Al-Quds force.

1:50.4

Well, a hotel in central Beirut was hit overnight.

1:53.9

Lebanon's health ministry says 394 people have now been killed in Israeli strikes this week,

2:00.1

including 83 children. And in the last

2:03.3

couple of minutes, Israel's army says that two Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in southern

2:09.1

Lebanon. Well, let's hear now from the BBC's Lena Sinjab, who's in the Lebanese capital.

2:14.8

The Israelis have targeted a hotel in the city center of Beirut right by the seaside

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