Mideast war widens; new Iran supreme leader on cards - RTHK

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Israel and Iran traded strikes on Sunday as part of a widening war after the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a surprise US and Israeli bombardment a day earlier.
42% : Asked whether Israel was considering deploying ground forces to Iran, Israeli military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said that was not under consideration even though Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have urged Iranians to seize a rare opportunity to topple their leaders.
39% : Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced Khamenei's death as a cynical murder, while European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the death was "a defining moment in Iran's history".
35% : Israel's rescue services said eight people were killed and 28 wounded in a strike in the central town of Beit Shemesh, bringing the overall death toll in the country to 10. Iran's Revolutionary Guards also said they attacked the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Gulf.
31% : Iran fired missiles at targets in Israel and Gulf Arab states in retaliation.

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