Name: Latest news on Day 10 of Iran war as next supreme leader reportedly emerges
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We begin with the escalating war with Iran.

Mojtaba Khamenei has been named as Iran's new supreme leader.

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He's the son of the former supreme leader who was recently killed.

President Trump has previously spoken out against Moshtaba Khamenei, and

he said a supreme leader won't last long without U.S.

And the fighting continues throughout the Middle East.

Trump spoke with CBS News Bob Costa on Saturday, saying the U.S.

has diminished the Iranian military and regime and will continue to expand its targets inside Iran.

On 60 Minutes, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke about the scope of the operation.

You don't tell anybody what your limits would be on an operation.

We're willing to go as far as we need to in order to be successful.

And CBS News has learned that the US May be responsible for the bombing of a girls school in Iran.

The attack killed at least 175 people, many of them children.

A preliminary American government assessment suggests the US Is likely responsible for but didn't intentionally target the school.

s possible role in the attack, saying, quote, the killing of school children is appalling and unacceptable under any circumstance.

Iran's foreign minister rejected calls for a ceasefire in light of the ongoing strikes.

They are killing, you know, girl students.

You know, they are attacking hospitals, you know, freshwater desalinations, you know, refineries, you know, everywhere people have been killed, places have been destroyed, and

now they want to ask for a ceasefire again.

And the US Military says another US Service member has died in the war with Iran, bringing the number of Americans killed to.

President Trump participated in a dignified transfer on Saturday for the six other soldiers who have died.

We have team coverage for you this morning.

Let's begin first with CBS News correspondent Natalie Brann, who's standing by at the White House.

A lot of developments in the war to talk about.

What's the latest we're hearing from President Trump?

In this phone call with CBS News, Bob Costa continued to express expressed confidence in his strategy in the Middle east.

And he dismissed threats made over the weekend on social media by Iran's top national security official, Ali Laranjani.

Who said that Trump must pay the price for the US Israel strikes.

President Trump said he couldn't care less, didn't know who that person was, and

Now the president also reiterated that these strikes will continue until there's unconditional surrender.

So CBS News is Major Garrett on 60 Minutes Press Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on what that looks like.

We'll know when they're not capable of fighting.

There'll be a point where they'll have no choice but to do that.

Whether they know it or not, they will be combat ineffective.

Now, the president was also asked by reporters this weekend about boots on the ground, what circumstances could potentially dictate that.

He said he didn't really want to talk about that, but

said it would have to be for a very good reason.

And if they did do that, Iran would be so decimated they wouldn't be able to fight at a ground level.

Now, in a new phone interview with the Times of Israel on Sunday morning, President Trump also said he would make the call about ending the operation at the right time.

He indicated that Prime Minister Netanyahu would have a say, but

Notably in that interview, he also declined to comment on Iran's new supreme leader, saying we'll have to see what happens earlier ahead of that decision made over this weekend.

And he said that the ayatollah's son would be an unacceptable choice.

All right, Natalie Brand of the White House, thank you.

Now let's get to CBS News foreign correspondent Raymi Inocencio with more on this.

So we've been talking about Mojaba Khamenei, the new supreme leader in Iran.

Well, about Mosheba's origin story, he's been a pretty secretive man over the course of his life.

What we know is that he is the second of four sons of the late ayatollah.

And we know he's been massively shaped basically by the upheaval of his country.

He was born in 1969, which means that he was 10 years old when the Islamic Revolution happened.

He was 20 when his father became supreme leader.

And then when he was 30, he started seminary.

And this is in the holy city of Qom, which is described as basically going into Ayatollah training.

He's never given a speech, hasn't been seen out and about in public.

No word yet on if or really when he might give an address.

But Israel's defense minister, if you remember, last week, said that the next supreme leader, whoever it will be, will be, quote, a target for assassination.

And Remy, do we have a sense yet as to whether this appointment will change anything when it comes to the fighting?

The ascension of Moshe Bahenei to supreme Leader really does appear right now to be a push for some kind of continuity, especially at this time when Iran's government is facing, we can say, its biggest and existential crisis in the past 47 years.

Iran experts that I've been speaking to say that the expectation is that he will carry on in his father's footsteps as a hardliner, strict, religiously tight politically.

And we also heard from Israel's ambassador to the United nations, who also said whoever it was, it wasn't going to matter.

It really doesn't matter if it is the father or the son.

And the policy of this regime is the same to promote terror, to sow chaos, to acquire nuclear capabilities.