Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei as its new supreme leader, roughly a week after his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was assassinated in a combined US-Israeli operation that sparked a regional crisis
In reaction to the Taliban's retaliatory attacks, Pakistan declares "open war" on Afghanistan, saying, "Our patience has now run out." Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif declared on X that "it is now open war between us."