Exports of oil from Kharg Island, the energy-infrastructure hub that was bombarded by the U. S. , resumed Sunday after a two-day interruption, data from vessel-tracking firm Kpler shows.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If confirmed, Israel's assassination of Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran's supreme national security council and one of the linchpins of Iranian politics, would be a devastating body blow to the country and probably a bigger reverse than the loss of the supreme leader Ali Khamenei at the outset of the war.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the coming days or weeks, Iranian clerics will determine whether the Islamic Republic seeks de-escalation or pursues suicidal confrontation with the United States and Israel.