* WHAT…Temperatures up to 89.

* WHERE…Eastern San Fernando Valley, Eastern Santa Monica
Mountains Recreational Area, Western San Fernando Valley, and
Western Santa Monica Mountains Recreational Area.

* WHEN…Until 6 PM PDT this evening.

* IMPACTS…There is a high risk for heat illness for sensitive
populations including the very young, the very old, those without
air conditioning, and those active outdoors.
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of
the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.

Take extra precautions when outside. Wear lightweight and loose
fitting clothing. Try to limit strenuous activities to early morning
or evening. Take action when you see symptoms of heat exhaustion and
heat stroke.

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By CNN Staff, CNN

(CNN) — When millions of Iranians poured into the streets in 1979 to end the rule of the former shah, their revolution seemed to have put an end to the practice of passing power from father to son. Not so.

Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has been elevated to the position his father held for nearly four decades until his death in US-Israeli air strikes. He now sits atop a system badly weakened after the 88-member Assembly of Experts did what many Iranians had hoped it would never do, turning the Islamic Republic into a dynasty.

US President Donald Trump said last week that Khamenei’s appointment as his father’s successor would be “unacceptable” to him.

Born in 1969, Mojtaba Khamenei received religious training like his other brothers though he never rose to the rank of Mujtahid, the level of Islamic jurisprudence many regime loyalists consider essential for the role of supreme leader. He is married to Zahra, the daughter of former speaker of parliament and Khamenei confidant Gholam Haddad Adel.

For years, Mojtaba kept a low profile, although from the shadows he was a central figure in the vast officialdom of his father’s system. He cultivated close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the economic networks that prop up the system.

For Iran observers, his influence was unmistakable, even without holding a senior formal position. In recent years, as he worked in his father’s office, he was increasingly positioned as a potential successor and, in 2021, pictures on social media showed supporters distributing posters on the streets of Tehran that openly promoted him as the next leader.

Many believe he played a pivotal role in pushing for the election of the hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 2005 presidential elections. He was known to have mobilized the IRGC’s networks to boost the candidacy of the then-mayor of Tehran, Ahmadinejad, who was up against the better known, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a Khamenei rival,

By 2009, when millions of Iranians took to the streets to protest the re-election of Ahmadinejad in what they saw as a rigged election, it was clear that Mojtaba was not merely the son of the leader but a political operator in his own right. The uprising was brutally crushed, marking the beginning of the end of any true domestic reformist movement. Events of that year showed his ascendancy, with protesters on the streets chanting “Mojtaba bemiri Rahbari ro Nabini,” or “Mojtaba may you die so you don’t assume the leadership role.”

He was sanctioned by the US in 2019 after the US Treasury accused him of working closely with the commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guards to advance what it described as his father’s “destabilizing regional ambitions and oppressive domestic objectives.”

Hopes for a more democratic future for Iran may now lie in tatters, as Mojtaba’s elevation sends an unmistakable message about where Iran’s hardline rulers wish to take the regime. It suggests that the Revolutionary Guards and their allied factions have emerged from the first phase of this current war more determined to double down on continuing Ali Khamenei’s legacy and policies.

Mojtaba has no administrative record, having never led a major organization or entity. He has made few public pronouncements on the myriad of social, economic, cultural and political challenges already facing the country even before the devastation of all-out war. And his worldview is one shaped in the shadow of his father.

CNN

By CNN Staff, CNN

(CNN) — When millions of Iranians poured into the streets in 1979 to end the rule of the former shah, their revolution seemed to have put an end to the practice of passing power from father to son. Not so.

Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has been elevated to the position his father held for nearly four decades until his death in US-Israeli air strikes. He now sits atop a system badly weakened after the 88-member Assembly of Experts did what many Iranians had hoped it would never do, turning the Islamic Republic into a dynasty.

US President Donald Trump said last week that Khamenei’s appointment as his father’s successor would be “unacceptable” to him.

Born in 1969, Mojtaba Khamenei received religious training like his other brothers though he never rose to the rank of Mujtahid, the level of Islamic jurisprudence many regime loyalists consider essential for the role of supreme leader. He is married to Zahra, the daughter of former speaker of parliament and Khamenei confidant Gholam Haddad Adel.

For years, Mojtaba kept a low profile, although from the shadows he was a central figure in the vast officialdom of his father’s system. He cultivated close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the economic networks that prop up the system.

For Iran observers, his influence was unmistakable, even without holding a senior formal position. In recent years, as he worked in his father’s office, he was increasingly positioned as a potential successor and, in 2021, pictures on social media showed supporters distributing posters on the streets of Tehran that openly promoted him as the next leader.

Many believe he played a pivotal role in pushing for the election of the hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 2005 presidential elections. He was known to have mobilized the IRGC’s networks to boost the candidacy of the then-mayor of Tehran, Ahmadinejad, who was up against the better known, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a Khamenei rival,

By 2009, when millions of Iranians took to the streets to protest the re-election of Ahmadinejad in what they saw as a rigged election, it was clear that Mojtaba was not merely the son of the leader but a political operator in his own right. The uprising was brutally crushed, marking the beginning of the end of any true domestic reformist movement. Events of that year showed his ascendancy, with protesters on the streets chanting “Mojtaba bemiri Rahbari ro Nabini,” or “Mojtaba may you die so you don’t assume the leadership role.”

He was sanctioned by the US in 2019 after the US Treasury accused him of working closely with the commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guards to advance what it described as his father’s “destabilizing regional ambitions and oppressive domestic objectives.”

Hopes for a more democratic future for Iran may now lie in tatters, as Mojtaba’s elevation sends an unmistakable message about where Iran’s hardline rulers wish to take the regime. It suggests that the Revolutionary Guards and their allied factions have emerged from the first phase of this current war more determined to double down on continuing Ali Khamenei’s legacy and policies.

Mojtaba has no admini

Por John Liu, CNN

El principal diplomático de China presentó a su país como defensor de la paz y la estabilidad mientras la guerra en Irán continúa, al tiempo que adoptó un tono conciliador hacia Estados Unidos antes de una esperada cumbre entre los líderes de ambas naciones.

“Esta fue una guerra que nunca debió haber ocurrido y una guerra que no beneficia a nadie”, dijo Wang Yi, ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de China, en una conferencia de prensa el domingo al margen de la sesión anual del legislativo chino.

Wang, al presentar a China como “la fuerza más importante del mundo para la paz, la estabilidad y la justicia”, reiteró el llamado de Beijing a un cese del fuego inmediato para “evitar que la situación escale y prevenir el desbordamiento y la propagación de las llamas de la guerra”.

“Todas las partes deben volver a la mesa de negociaciones lo antes posible y resolver sus diferencias mediante un diálogo en igualdad de condiciones”, añadió.

La creciente preocupación de China por la guerra con Irán se produce mientras su líder, Xi Jinping, se prepara para recibir este mes al presidente de Estados Unidos Donald Trump en Beijing, para conversaciones clave entre las dos mayores economías del mundo. Se espera que la cumbre aborde una amplia gama de asuntos importantes, desde tensiones comerciales hasta Taiwán.

A la inminente reunión se suma ahora un nuevo elemento de complejidad: una guerra que se intensifica rápidamente en Medio Oriente.

Los líderes de Irán han mantenido durante mucho tiempo estrechas relaciones con Beijing. China —como muchos otros países— ha observado con preocupación la muerte del líder iraní, el ayatola Alí Jamenei, así como el aumento de los precios del petróleo y el impacto en la economía mundial provocado por la escalada del conflicto.

Más de una semana después de que Estados Unidos e Israel lanzaran ataques contra Irán, la guerra no muestra señales de disminuir. Trump dijo el viernes que no habrá acuerdo con Irán salvo una “rendición incondicional”, sin detallar demandas específicas.

Beijing ha aprovechado el momento para proyectar una imagen de superpotencia confiable y responsable, en contraste con Estados Unidos, que —según la visión china— ha introducido incertidumbre en el mundo mediante nuevas guerras, la captura del presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, y el lanzamiento de una guerra comercial global contra aliados cercanos y contra China.

Beijing ha proporcionado “la fuente más valiosa de estabilidad y certeza para un mundo turbulento, convirtiéndose en un ancla insustituible en medio del caos global”, sostuvo Wang el domingo.

Al mismo tiempo, Wang pidió mantener el compromiso con Washington para gestionar las diferencias clave, al tiempo que expresó su bienvenida a la próxima cumbre entre Xi y Trump. Dijo que los líderes de ambos países han dado ejemplo al ayudar a que la relación bilateral logre estabilidad general a pesar de las turbulencias.

“Lo que se necesita ahora es que ambas partes hagan preparativos exhaustivos, fomenten un entorno propicio, gestionen las diferencias existentes y eliminen interferencias innecesarias”, dijo Wang el domingo, en respuesta a una pregunta del periodista de CNN Steven Jiang.

“China y Estados Unidos son ambas grandes potencias, y ninguna puede cambiar a la otra; pero sí podemos cambiar la forma en que interactuamos”, añadió, al instar a Estados Unidos a avanzar en la misma dirección.

En el mismo escenario el año pasado —poco después de que Trump lanzara la primera ofensiva arancelaria contra China de su nuevo Gobierno— Wang advirtió a Estados Unidos contra un “enfoque de doble cara” en su relación con China y subrayó que Beijing “se opone firmemente a la política de poder y a la hegemonía”.

Si el mensaje del año pasado f

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN

(CNN) — A US service member died after sustaining injuries during an attack last week in Saudi Arabia, the military said Sunday, marking the seventh American service member killed in the Iran war.

“Last night, a U.S. service member passed away from injuries received during the Iranian regime’s initial attacks across the Middle East,” US Central Command said on X. “The service member was seriously wounded at the scene of an attack on U.S. troops in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on March 1.”

The name of the service member is being withheld until 24 hours after their next of kin is notified, as is custom.

The news of the fallen service member comes a day after the dignified transfer for the six soldiers who were killed last week in Kuwait. President Donald Trump and other top officials joined the families of those troops at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware as the soldiers were brought home.

The president has previously said there will likely be more US casualties in the Iran war. Asked Saturday whether he thought he would have to attend more dignified transfers, Trump said, “I’m sure. I hate to … but it’s a part of war.”

This story is breaking and will be updated.

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