The holy and the profitable

Iran 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.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday Washington should have a say in the selection. "If he doesn't get approval from us he's not going to last long," he told ABC News.

Israel said it continued to target senior Iranian figures, including Abolqasem Babaian, the recently appointed head of the military office of the supreme leader, killed in a Saturday strike.

Mojtaba Khamenei has long exercised influence behind the scenes through close ties with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and networks linked to the leadership’s economic interests.