Iran’s new leader threatens a bigger fight; oil prices jump again, and more

伊朗新领导人威胁更大规模冲突;油价再次飙升,且更多。

The World in Brief from The Economist

2026-03-13

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  • Over two years after cancelling the planned production of three new electric vehicle models in North America,

  • Iran's new supreme leader pledged to, quote, avenge his country's martyrs in his first public comment since succeeding his father.

  • the Japanese carmaker is grappling with a slowdown in America's electric vehicle market and expects

  • In a written statement aired on state television, Mushtaba Khamenei...

  • Threatened to open new fronts against America and pledged to continue the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz,

  • to make an annual net loss of up to 630 billion yen,

  • a key oil-shipping route.

  • its first since it went public nearly seven decades ago.

  • He is believed to have been injured in an American strike.

  • China approved a law that will force the country's ethnic minorities to learn Mandarin.

  • Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, jumped back above $100 a barrel.

  • The language of the dominant Han Chinese group.

  • It will become the main language in schools and official communication.