以色列军队连夜扩大对伊朗的轰炸，袭击了德黑兰附近的燃料库。与此同时，巴林方面称，伊朗的袭击破坏了其一座海水淡化厂，这表明伊朗正在扩大对该地区重要基础设施的攻击。

在美以联军对伊朗发动进攻的第九天，战斗愈演愈烈。在阿亚图拉·阿里·哈梅内伊身亡后，德黑兰方面正着手任命新的最高领袖，种种迹象表明，哈梅内伊的得力儿子可能会接任。

以色列军方威胁要杀死任何哈梅内伊的继任者，而美国总统唐纳德·特朗普则表示，只有彻底消灭伊朗军队和统治者，战争才有可能结束。

德黑兰的视频显示，周日清晨，石油储存设施遭到袭击，橙色的火焰照亮了夜空，浓厚的黑烟笼罩着整座城市。

一位以色列消息人士称，这些燃料被用于制造和研发武器以及维持军事基地的运转。伊朗石油分销公司表示，其四名员工在袭击中丧生，并补充说，将在部分地区暂时实行配给制，“以确保公平和可持续的供应”。

袭击发生后不久，以色列总理内塔尼亚胡表示，他的政府将继续推进打击行动，毫不留情地打击伊朗统治者。此次袭击似乎标志着战争进入了一个新阶段。

他在一段视频声明中说：“我们制定了一个周密的计划，其中包含许多出其不意的行动，旨在破坏伊朗政权的稳定，促成变革。我们还有更多目标。”

特朗普在空军一号上告诉记者，他对通过谈判结束这场冲突不感兴趣。这场冲突已经导致能源价格飙升，损害了商业，并扰乱了全球旅行。

特朗普说，“我认为，到某个时候，可能没有人会说‘我们投降’了。”

沙特阿拉伯、科威特、阿拉伯联合酋长国和巴林政府报告称，伊朗无人机于周六和周日凌晨袭击了各自境内的设施。科威特一座政府办公楼被大火吞噬。

科威特内政部表示，两名官员在“执行公务时”遇难。

巴林周日表示，伊朗无人机袭击对一座海水淡化厂造成了“物质损失”，但该国电力和水务部门称，此次袭击并未中断供水。

这是阿拉伯国家首次声称伊朗在冲突期间袭击了海水淡化设施。周六，伊朗称美国袭击了其位于格什姆岛的一座海水淡化厂，导致30个村庄的供水中断，并称此举是“危险举动，后果严重”。

据路透社援引知情人士消息称，沙特阿拉伯已告知德黑兰，伊朗若继续袭击沙特及其能源部门，可能会迫使利雅得采取对等报复行动。

为了平息海湾地区的愤怒情绪，伊朗总统马苏德·佩泽什基安周六就其袭击邻国境内美军基地的行为向邻国道歉。

他的言论遭到伊朗国内一些强硬派的强烈反对，促使其办公室重申，伊朗军方将对来自美国设施的袭击做出坚决回应。

据伊朗媒体报道，负责遴选伊朗下一任最高领袖的宗教机构最早可能于周日召开会议，选出在冲突初期遇袭身亡的阿亚图拉·阿里·哈梅内伊的继任者。

据梅尔通讯社报道，专家会议成员阿亚图拉·穆罕默德迈赫迪·米尔巴盖里表示，关于继任者的人选已基本达成共识。

另一位专家会议成员阿亚图拉·穆赫辛·海达里·阿莱卡西尔在一段视频中表示，根据哈梅内伊的指示，已选定了一位候选人，即伊朗最高领袖应该“被敌人憎恨”。

两名伊朗消息人士上周告诉路透社，最热门的人选是哈梅内伊的儿子穆杰塔巴·哈梅内伊。穆杰塔巴在其父的领导下，凭借在安全部队及其控制的庞大商业帝国中的高级地位而积累了权力。选择他将发出一个信号，即强硬派仍然牢牢掌控着权力。

特朗普为自2003年入侵伊拉克以来美国在中东规模最大的军事行动辩护，称德黑兰对美国构成迫在眉睫的威胁，但并未提供任何证据。他还表示，伊朗距离制造核武器已经非常接近。

据Axios报道，四位知情人士透露，美国和以色列曾讨论在战争后期派遣特种部队进入伊朗，以确保其高浓缩铀库存的安全。

周六，当被问及是否有可能派遣地面部队保护核设施时，特朗普表示，这可以“以后再说”。

据伊朗常驻联合国代表阿米尔·赛义德·伊拉瓦尼称，美以联合袭击已造成至少1332名伊朗平民死亡，数千人受伤。

伊朗的袭击已造成以色列10人死亡。 至少六名美军士兵丧生，伊朗周日声称袭击了位于科威特的美国军事基地。

上周，伊朗支持的真主党武装向以色列发射火箭弹和无人机，黎巴嫩也被卷入冲突。

周日清晨，以色列袭击了贝鲁特市中心的一家酒店，造成至少四人死亡。以色列方面称，此次袭击的目标是在黎巴嫩首都活动的伊朗指挥官。这是以色列首次在贝鲁特市中心发动此类袭击，引发了人们对以色列可能将袭击范围扩大到真主党传统活动区域以外的担忧。

Israeli forces expanded their bombardment of Iran overnight, striking fuel depots near Tehran, while Bahrain said an Iranian attack had damaged one of its desalination plants, signaling a widening assault on vital infrastructure across the region.

As the fighting escalated on day nine of the U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran, Tehran moved closer to naming a new supreme leader after the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with every indication suggesting his powerful son could take charge.

Israel’s military threatened to kill any replacement for Khamenei, while U.S. President Donald Trump said the war might only end once Iran’s military and rulers had been wiped out.

Video from Tehran showed thick, choking black smoke hanging over the city early on Sunday after strikes on oil storage facilities had lit up the night sky with plumes of orange flame.

An Israeli source said the fuel was used to manufacture and develop weapons and to operate military bases. Iran’s oil distribution company said four of its employees were killed in the blitz, adding that rationing would be introduced temporarily in some areas “to ensure fair and sustainable supplies.”

Shortly after the attack, which appeared to mark a new phase in the war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his government would press on with the assault and strike Iran’s rulers “without mercy.”

“We have an organized plan with many surprises to destabilize the regime and enable change,” he said in a video statement. “We have many more targets.”

Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he was not interested in negotiating an end to the conflict that has sent energy prices skyward, hurt business and snarled global travel.

“At some point, I don’t think there will be anybody left maybe to say, ‘We surrender’,” Trump said.

The governments of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain reported Iranian drone attacks in their countries on Saturday and early Sunday, with a huge fire engulfing a government office block in Kuwait.

Kuwait’s interior ministry said two of its officers were killed “while performing duties.”

Bahrain said on Sunday that an Iranian drone attack had caused “material damage” to a desalination plant, though the country’s electricity and water authority said the strike had not disrupted water supplies.

It was the first time an Arab country has said Iran targeted a desalination facility during the conflict. On Saturday, Iran said a U.S. attack had struck a freshwater desalination plant on its Qeshm Island, disrupting water supplies in 30 villages, calling it “a dangerous move with grave consequences.”

Saudi Arabia has told Tehran that continued Iranian attacks on the kingdom and its energy sector could push Riyadh to respond in kind, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

In an apparent attempt to cool anger across the Gulf, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian apologized to neighboring states for its attacks on U.S. bases in those countries on Saturday.

His comments faced backlash from some hardliners in Iran, prompting his office to reiterate Iran’s military would respond firmly to attacks from U.S. facilities.

The clerical body charged with choosing Iran’s next supreme leader could meet as soon as Sunday to name a successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an attack early in the conflict, Iranian media reported.

A majority consensus over the successor has more or less been reached, said Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Mohammadmehdi Mirbaqeri, according to the Mehr news agency.

Another member of the council, Ayatollah Mohsen Heidari Alekasir, said in a video that a candidate had been selected based on Khamenei’s guidance that Iran’s top leader should be “hated by the enemy.”

Two Iranian sources told Reuters last week that the clear favorite was Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, who amassed power under his father as a senior figure in the security forces and the vast business empire they control. Choosing him would send a signal that hardliners were still firmly in charge.

Trump has justified the biggest U.S. military operation in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq by saying Tehran posed an imminent threat to the United States, without providing evidence. He has also said Iran was too close to being able to build a nuclear weapon.

The U.S. and Israel have discussed sending special forces into Iran to secure its stockpile of highly enriched uranium at a later stage of the war, Axios reported, citing four people with knowledge of the discussions.

Asked about the possibility of sending ground troops to secure nuclear sites on Saturday, Trump said it was something they could do “later on.”

The U.S.-Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,332 Iranian civilians and wounded thousands, according to Iran’s U.N. ambassador, Amir Saeid Iravani.

Iranian attacks have killed 10 people in Israel. At least six U.S. service members have been killed, with Iran saying on Sunday it had struck U.S. bases in Kuwait.

Lebanon has also been pulled into the conflict after the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah fired rockets and drones into Israel last week.

At least four people were killed when Israel hit a hotel building in central Beirut early on Sunday, with Israel saying it had targeted Iranian commanders operating in the Lebanese capital. It was the first such strike in the heart of Beirut, prompting fears Israel would expand its attacks to areas beyond where Hezbollah traditionally operates.