Away from the Middle East, we can bring you a brief update on an explosion which happened outside the US Embassy in Norway's capital, Oslo, overnight.

Earlier police said only minor damage was sustained and there were no reported injuries.

Photos show shattered glass in the snow outside the entrance to the consular section of the building, cracks in a glass door as well as dark marks on a tiled floor.

In an update, Norwegian police said at the moment there are no suspects and security measures in Oslo are being strengthened, Reuters news agency reported.

"It's natural to see this in the context of the current security situation and that this could be an attack deliberately targeting the US embassy," police spokesperson Frode Larsen told a news conference a short time ago.

The US is yet to comment.

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Oman Air has announced it has cancelled flights to and from Gulf nations between 9 March and 15 March "due to ongoing regional airspace closures".

The airline said the following destinations would be affected: Amman, Dubai, Bahrain, Doha, Dammam, Kuwait, Baghdad, Khasab. Flights to and from Copenhagen are also impacted.

"Nobody likes war - it’s terrifying," one woman in Tehran tells BBC Persian.

"But those two months were so horrible that people just couldn’t take it anymore," she says, referring to the government's violent shutdown of protests earlier this year.

People would "rather die in bombing than in the Islamic Republic’s prisons, where there’s torture and sexual violence," she says.

"Maybe it’s hard to understand for people who aren’t here," she adds.

"Iranians aren’t warmongers or foolish - they’ve just suffered so much that they’ve reached their limit, and all they want is a normal life," she says.

BBC Persian is the Persian language service of BBC News, used by 24 million people around the world - the majority in Iran - despite being blocked and routinely jammed by Iranian authorities

We are monitoring the gradual resumption of outbound flights at Israel's Ben Guiron Airport in Tel Aviv after the Israeli government approved some operations.

Flights to Athens, Sofia and Budapest have taken off in the last few hours - although Ben Guiron Airport advises passengers to check before they travel as many more flights remain grounded.

"Ben Gurion Airport is open for limited inbound flights," the US Embassy in Jerusalem said in a post on X.

Nick Johnson
Reporting from RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire

A thick layer of fog is coating RAF Fairford today.

Three American B1 bombers were due to land this morning but each have been diverted to Ramstein air base in Germany.

An additional C17 transporter carrying munitions and spare parts for the bombers has been diverted to Glasgow Prestwick Airport.

The increase in transporter aircraft at Fairford indicates the likely arrival of additional bombers.

Online flight radars suggest one of those transporters bound for Fairford took off from Minot in North Dakota, where the B-52 Stratofortress bombers are based.

It suggests their arrival here at RAF Fairford is likely in the coming days.

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Israel's Ministry of Health says 1,929 people have been injured and evacuated to hospitals since the war began just over a week ago.

Of these, 122 remain hospitalised, with nine in a "serious condition", although some of these are "not directly due to missile strikes", the statement says, external.

It says 157 people were treated over the past 24 hours.

The statement was issued at 07:00 local time (05:00 GMT) this morning.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continues to report missile fire from Iran in posts on its Telegram channel. "Defensive systems are operating to intercept the threat," it says.

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg has ended - here are the key takeaways from this morning's programme:

• Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said the UK government's job is not to be "outsourcing our foreign policy" after renewed criticism from Donald Trump over the conflict in Iran
• Cooper said it is Sir Keir Starmer's job to "take decisions in the UK's national interest"
• Next Israeli President Isaac Herzog told the show that his country had the "full right to defend ourselves" as he said Iran was "moving quickly" towards stockpiling 20,000 ballistic missiles
• Iran's ambassador to the UK, Seyed Ali Mousavi, said also asserted his country's "right to self-defence" if the UK directly joined US-Israeli attacks on Iran
• Finally, the UN's humanitarian affairs chief Tom Fletcher said the world is in a "moment of grave peril" caused by the conflict in the Middle East
• Fletcher told Kuenssberg there had been "a lot of unintended consequences", including "hundreds of thousands" of civilians displaced, and knock-on effects in other parts of the world

Ghoncheh Habibiazad
Senior reporter, BBC Persian

Ahmad Alamolhoda, a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts, has said that the election for the next leader has been held and the leader has been elected.

He has said that now all depends on the head of the Secretariat of the Assembly of Experts, Hosseini Bushehri, who is currently responsible for publicly announcing the decision, the semi-official Mehr news agency reports.

The Iranian ambassador in London, Seyed Ali Mousavi, has spoken to Kuenssberg in a pre-recorded interview.

Seyed Ali Mousavi told Kuenssberg his country would have a "right to self-defence" if the UK directly joined US-Israeli attacks on Iran.

He warned that Iran expected the British government, and others, "to be very delicate, very careful" in their actions.

The UK has given permission for the US to use British bases for what ministers describe as defensive strikes on Iranian facilities, but has not taken part in any direct attacks itself.

The ambassador said it was "good" that the UK was not "involved with this aggression", adding he believed the British government had learnt lessons from the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

You can read more from that interview here.

Herzog is asked for his reaction to Donald Trump's comments that the war is over. The Israeli president says he "did not hear him say that the war is over".

"I heard him saying he expects full surrender by Iran," Herzog continues.

Finally, Herzog is asked by Kuenssberg about whether the UK-US relationship is at risk - he says he "does not want to get involved with relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom".

Herzog adds: "Britain knows when to fight and how to fight when needed. I am truly aware of the traumas of the last generation."

Kuenssberg is now speaking to Israel's President Isaac Herzog.

He says Iran was "moving quickly" towards a stockpile of 20,000 ballistic missiles. This is part of the reason Israel and the US decided to "move swiftly" to remove the threat, he says.

Kuenssberg asks how he can justify this when Iran was at the negotiating table. The Israeli president says Iran did not adhere any role of international law. Herzog also says Iran violated international law by "attacking" a UK base in Cyprus.

Pressed by Kuenssberg about why Israel has the right to strike countries outside of Iran, like Lebanon, Herzog says "we didn't do that, we were attacked vehemently" by Hezbollah.

"We have the full right to defend ourselves", he says.

Kuenssberg has pressed the foreign secretary: "Are we at war?"

Cooper replies: "We are providing defensive support in a conflict and that is the way to describe it.

"We want to see resolution of this conflict swiftly as possible."

The foreign secretary refuses to comment on national security council matters, however she says Starmer has her backing.

"I strongly support the prime minister's decisions and the decisions that he has taken."

Pressed by Kuenssberg on whether the UK-US special relationship is "in trouble", Cooper says the countries work closely together on a range of issues and "will continue to do so".

Kuenssberg then asks about a comment from former prime minister Tony Blair, that the UK should have been alongside the US from the start.

Cooper says that there is a range of opinion in politics, and that it's "not in the UK's national interest" to "unquestioningly agree with the US".

She adds that she thinks it's "important to learn lessons" from what went wrong during the Iraq war.

Asked if the UK has been too slow to respond in this conflict, Cooper says that the government initially wanted to pursue diplomatic means, but once they saw "the reckless nature of the Iranian response", the government decided it was right to respond.

We're now hearing from UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

Kuenssberg asks her about Donald Trump's social media posts, where he criticises the UK's support for the war.

Cooper says PM Keir Starmer's job is to "take decisions in the UK's national interest... not in interest of any other country". She says Starmer has done that "every step of the way".

The UK doesn't agree with Trump "on every issue", Cooper says. The US is going to think about US interests, while the UK will focus on UK interests, she adds.

While we wait to hear more from the UK's foreign secretary, we can bring you an update about air travel in the Middle East.

Qatar Airways says scheduled flights for Sunday remain temporarily suspended due to the closure of Qatari airspace. But the airline also says it operated repatriation flights today from Doha to Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt, London and Zurich.

Qatar Airlines adds that it intends to operate flights to the same destinations tomorrow - as well as to Muscat - after Qatar Civil Aviation Auhority had opened up a "limited operating corridor".

"These flights are only for passengers whose final destination is Doha," Qatar Airways says in a post on X. "These flights do not constitute a confirmation of resumption of scheduled commercial operations."

A further update is expected from the airline on Monday.

This week's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg is under way.

She'll be discussing events in the Middle East with Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper. We're also expecting to hear from Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

We'll bring you details about their remarks on the war here.

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In a video shared by the Iran's state-affiliated Mehr news agency, a senior cleric says that the Iranian Assembly of Experts has nearly reached a decision about who should replace the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed by US-Israeli strikes last Saturday.

The Assembly of Experts is a group of some 88 senior clerics - elected by popular vote - who are tasked with deciding Khamenei's replacement.

The agency reports Ayatollah Mohammad Mehdi Mirbagheri as saying that a "majority decision" had been reached, but that some procedural obstacles need to be resolved.

It is expected that the assembly will meet soon, and the Israeli military is threatening to "pursue every successor and every person who seeks to appoint a successor".

One man in Tehran tells BBC Your Voice that, as the war progresses, politics has taken a back seat.

"Our everyday lives have become about safety, food, communication and protecting family. Political debates that existed before the war fade in importance when people are under attack," he says.

"War forces people to confront the human cost," he adds. Before the conflict, people imagined war could remove the Iranian regime, but "the reality is very different" now the country is under fire, he says.

The internet blackout is making things more uncertain. "Authorities say it is for security reasons, but citizens view the internet as essential for communication and survival," he says.

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A huge blaze engulfs Iran's Aqdasieh fuel depot in Tehran after the Israeli military said it had struck a number of the country's oil facilities overnight.

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Responders inspect damage at a Ramada Hotel in Beirut after Israel struck the building, killing at least four people. Israel said it was targeting Iranian commanders in the Lebanese capital.

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Flames tore through a Kuwaiti government building in the early hours of Sunday following more drone attacks on the Gulf state. The Public Institution for Social Security said its main site was targeted by strikes.

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A rocket trail from a missile lights up the night sky above Netanya, the coastal town and tourist spot in Israel, triggering air raid sirens.

We can now bring you more details on the building that was set ablaze following drone strikes on Kuwait City in the early hours of Sunday morning.

It is a government site that is operated by the Public Institution for Social Security and the fire now appears to have been brought under control.

The department said earlier on social media that its main premises had been targeted "resulting in material damage to the building".

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