Iran escalates attacks as new Supreme Leader vows no surrender

Iranian attacks on shipping and oil infrastructure are escalating as the nation’s leadership says they have no plans to back down in the face of unrelenting airstrikes by the US and Israel. The new Supreme Leader of Iran Mojtaba Khamenei has vowed to keep blocking the Strait of Hormuz in his first statement that’s been attributed to him. Mojtaba Khamenei has still not been seen in public since succeeding his father.