Israeli forces expanded their bombardment of Iran overnight, striking fuel depots near Tehran, signalling a widening assault on vital infrastructure across the region.As fighting escalated on Day 9 of the US-Israeli campaign against Iran, Tehran on Sunday indicated it had chosen Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba as his successor. “The name of Khamenei will continue,” said Ayatollah Hosseinali Eshkevari, a member of the clerical council charged with electing a new leader, in a video published in Iranian media. “The vote has been cast and will be announced soon,” Eshkevari said, without providing further details.The council’s secretary, Hosseini Bushehri, would announce the successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — who was killed earlier in the conflict — Ahmad Alamolhoda, another cleric, told state media.US President Donald Trump on Sunday said Washington should have a say in the selection. “If he doesn’t get approval from us, he’s not going to last long,” he said.The US President added that the war might only end once Iran’s military and rulers had been wiped out.Meanwhile, Israel’s military threatened to kill any replacement for Khamenei.The US-Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,332 Iranian civilians and wounded thousands, according to Iran’s UN ambassador, Amir Saeid Iravani. Iranian attacks have killed 10 people in Israel. At least six US service members have been killed, with Iran saying on Sunday it had struck US bases in Kuwait. Israel said on Sunday that two of its soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon.Thick, choking black smoke hung over Tehran on Sunday, residents said, after strikes on oil storage facilities had lit up the night sky with plumes of orange flame. CNN reported that droplets of oil from the destroyed facilities were “raining down” at several places.The Israeli military said it struck “several fuel storage complexes” across the city.Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the large-scale attack marked a “dangerous new phase” of the conflict and amounted to a war crime.“By targeting fuel depots, the aggressors are releasing hazardous materials and toxic substances into the air, poisoning civilians, devastating the environment, and endangering lives on a massive scale,” he wrote on X.Shortly after the attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his government would press on with the assault and strike Iran’s rulers “without mercy”.Meanwhile, Lebanon’s Health Minister said Sunday that 83 children were among the 394 killed so far in the conflict between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group over the past week. Over a half-million people had been displaced, Beirut added.On International Women’s Day, HQ of oppressive ‘Prevention Police’ destroyed: IsraelIsrael on Sunday claimed that the headquarters of the dreaded Iranian “Prevention Police”, infamous for moral policing, had been destroyed. “On International Women’s Day, a symbol of oppression falls. The headquarters of Iran’s ‘Prevention Police’, notorious for torturing Iranian women, has been destroyed,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry said on X. “For years it was a place of fear for Iranian women. Today, it’s gone.”