Skip linksSkip to Content Live Navigation menuNewsAfricaAsiaUS & CanadaLatin AmericaEuropeAsia PacificMiddle EastExplainedSportOpinionVideoFeaturesEconomyHuman RightsClimate CrisisInvestigationsInteractivesIn PicturesScience & TechnologyPodcastsTravelSponsored Content Live Navigation menuIsrael-Palestine conflictShackled, bleeding, raped: Abuse in Israeli prisons‘This is an apartheid regime’Does Trump have real leverage over Netanyahu?History of flotilla campaignsLive updates, Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has urged against any action that could divide Muslims.Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei [File: AFP]By Umut Uras and Urooba JamalPublished On 30 Aug 2026

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has urged Muslim heads of state to “recognise their real enemy, understand its plans, and confront it” in a written statement.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi says the Strait of Hormuz remains closed and Tehran is in no hurry to reopen it.