The Times says that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba Khamenei has been chosen as the new Supreme Leader, as a “challenge to Trump”. The choice is “defiant”, says The Telegraph. Israel and Iran have targeted “fuel storage depots in Tehran, sparking fires that sent huge plumes of thick, black smoke over the capital”, says the Financial Times. “Have you learned nothing, Mr Blair?” asks The Mirror, after the former PM said that Keir Starmer should have immediately supported the US strikes on Iran. The Sun reports on Soham murderer Ian Huntley’s “self-pitying final letter”.
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