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Energy supply fears rock markets as Mojtaba Khamenei named Iran's new supreme leader

Meanwhile 32 civilians are injured in an Iranian drone attack on Bahrain, the state news agency says, the highest number of casualties in a single strike on the Gulf states since the war began.
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