The World in Brief from The Economist

The United Arab Emirates was in a “time of war”, said the country’s president, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in his first statement since the escalation of the regional conflict

The soaring oil price sent Wall Street stock indices tumbling.

Israel said it struck an underground bunker in Tehran used by Iranian officials, near to where Iran’s former supreme leader was killed

Qatar’s energy minister, Saad al-Kaabi, said that Gulf oil-and-gas exporters would be forced to “call force majeure” on energy shipments within “days”; Wall Street stock indices tumbled as oil prices continued to soar and America’s jobs report showed that the unemployment rate rose from 4.3% to 4.4% in February.

The president said that the current front-runner Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would be “unacceptable”. Also, Israel began “a broad-scale wave of strikes” on Tehran.

Donald Trump told reporters that he should help choose Iran’s new supreme leader.

Donald Trump told reporters that he should help choose Iran’s new supreme leader; Azerbaijan became the latest country to be drawn into the war in Iran after a drone attack on its territory.

Pete Hegseth claimed that America and Israel would soon gain control of Iranian airspace and deliver “death and destruction all day long”. Also, America’s Senate rejected a measure that would require Congress to approve Donald Trump’s military operations in Iran.