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Our business correspondent in Singapore is Nick Marsh.
Nick, is this just short-term pain, or do the markets fear that the war in Iran is going to go on for some time?
The 56-year-old cleric, Mojtaba Khamenei, takes over a nation still under heavy attack from the Israelis and the Americans.
In Tehran, a huge clear-up operation is underway after an oil depot was hit by Israeli airstrikes on Saturday night.
BBC Persian has been hearing from people in the Iranian capital about the attack.
Their messages have been recorded by actors as you're about to hear in this report from our chief international correspondent, Lise Doucette.
I turned the truck around on the street so it would be away from the danger.
But then when they fired the first missile, two more struck right afterwards.
Then the gasoline started flowing towards the residential areas.
Lise Doucette.
Still to come in this podcast.
The war in Iran causes difficulties for the country's women's football team.
Isompi soundi samassa koossa.
20% suurempi kaiutin tuo syvemmÀn ÀÀnen.
Huippuluokan soundi.
This is the Global News Podcast.
Other news now, and President Zelensky has said Ukrainian drone experts will arrive in the Middle East this week to help Gulf states under attack from Iran.
He said they would be able to provide assistance immediately.
Some air defences in the region have struggled to cope with Iran's Shahid drones.
But Ukraine has spent four years inventing cheap but effective ways of defending their skies from similar Russian strikes.