

Dubai | US President Donald Trump has told Axios that he should be involved in picking Iran's next supreme leader.
He said Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a frontrunner to succeed his father, would be an “unacceptable” choice.
Dubai | Bahrain says an Iranian missile hit a state-run oil refinery.
It said the fire Thursday night was extinguished and the refinery was still working. There were no reports of casualties.
But it marked yet another Iranian strike targeting the region's oil industry, the lifeblood of the Gulf Arab states.