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The election result ends 16 years in power for a powerful figure in the far-right movement allied with U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Pope Leo called for all people of good will to pray for peace and demand an end to war from their political leaders.
The U.S. Central Command said the USS Frank Peterson and USS Michael Murphy transited the Strait of Hormuz.
The accounts of the people close to Khamenei's inner circle provide the most detailed description of the leader's condition for weeks.
More than a third of the 1,500 service stations in the republic are out of fuel and that number is expected to grow dramatically if the roadblocks remain.
Neither side indicated what will happen after the 14-day ceasefire expires on April 22.
A fragile two-day-old ceasefire has halted the campaign of U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iran, but it has not so far calmed the situation in Lebanon.