As it happened: Massive explosion rocks Tehran; Trump's warning amid Iran's chilling vow of revenge; Supreme leader's death confirmed

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• Famous seven-star Dubai hotel struck by missile debris
• How Iranian state TV announced Supreme Leader's death
• 'All our action is defensive': UK and Australia split on Iran response
• Dubai Airport damaged in reported strike, four hurt

The US military says it has sunk an Iranian warship and called on Iranian forces to lay down their arms and leave their posts.

The US Central Command, which is overseeing ongoing US attacks on Iran, said it sunk an Iranian Jamaran-class corvette in the Gulf of Oman at a Chah Bahar pier.

"As the president said, members of Iran's armed forces, IRGC and police 'must lay down your weapons'. Abandon ship," Central Command said in a post on X, referring to remarks on Saturday by US President Donald Trump.

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian says a new leadership council "has begun its work" after the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Pezeshkian made the comment in a prerecorded message aired on Iranian state television.

Pezeshkian is one of three officials on the council. The other two are head of judiciary cleric Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehei and Ayatollah Ali Reza Arafi.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told the Al Jazeera network that a new supreme leader will be chosen in "one or two days".

The chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee says a priority for its joint military campaign is Iran's "vast missile arsenal".

Republican Tom Cotton of Arkansas told CBS' Face the Nation that those missiles threatened American troops "from bases as far flung as the Indian Ocean to Western Europe".

"We're stopping a lot of them from being fired before Iran can fire them. It's much easier to kill the archer on the ground than it is to shoot his arrows out of the sky," he said in the television interview.

The United Arab Emirates' Defence Ministry says three people have been killed so far in Iranian attacks on the country.

The ministry said Iran had launched 165 ballistic missiles targeting the country, of which 152 were destroyed. Thirteen fell into the sea, it added.

Iran launched 541 bomb-carrying drones at the UAE, of which 506 were destroyed.

Another 35 struck the country, killing three people from Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh, while 58 others were wounded.

Israel's police say at least five people have killed in a strike that hit central Israel on Sunday.

A spokesperson for the rescue services said searches were ongoing for additional victims.

Iran has so far launched dozens of rockets at Israel.

The Israeli military say sit is "checking" reports of a strike on a girl's school in Iran that a local official claimed killed nearly 150 people.

Ebrahim Taheri, a prosecutor in Minab, where the purported strike took place, said the toll stood at 148, with 95 wounded.

CNN is unable to independently verify the reports.

"At this point, I am not aware of any Israeli or American strike on that location. I know both we and the Americans are checking," The international spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani, told reporters in a briefing.

The US military earlier told CNN that the US was aware of the reports and "looking into them".

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi has sharply criticised the killing of Khamenei in a phone call with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.

"The blatant killing of the leader of a sovereign state and the incitement of regime change are unacceptable," he was quoted as saying by China's official Xinhua News Agency.

"These actions violate international law and the basic norms governing international relations."

He said attacking a sovereign state without UN Security Council authorisation undermines the foundation for peace established after World War II.

"The international community should speak in a clear and unequivocal voice, opposing the world regressing to the law of the jungle," he said.

Israel's military claims its strikes have killed 40 top Iranian military officials, including the chief of staff for the Iranian armed forces, Abdolrahim Mousavi.

Israel did not provide evidence, and neither Iran nor the United States immediately commented on the claim.

The Israeli military also said it had "dismantled the majority of the aerial defence systems in western and central Iran" and was "paving the way towards establishing aerial superiority over the skies of Tehran".

Australia's Ambassador to the UAE, Ridwaan Jadwat, has issued a video reiterating support for the 25,000 Aussies in the region.

He said these were "unprecedented times" and the "situation remains fluid".

There's a variety of contact details in the post below for Aussies needing consular assistance as many phone calls to the embassy have apparently not been getting through.