Cuba leaders' days 'are numbered', warns top Republican

A top US politician has threatened Cuba's leaders days after the killing of Iran's head of state.

Lindsey Graham, Republican senator for South Carolina and an ally of President Donald Trump, hinted that the Communist regime in Havana could be targeted next by the US. He appeared on Fox News's Sunday Night in America to discuss the weekend's attacks against Iran that sparked further bombing raids and retaliatory strikes across the Middle East.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed at his compound on Saturday morning by a joint US-Israeli airstrike. The IDF has since expanded its military operation to Lebanon, hitting Hezbollah targets.

Iran latest: US warns 'hardest hits yet to come' Iran hit back, firing missiles at US military sites and Gulf allies, including the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Britain's Akrotiri airbase in Cyprus. "The Iranian regime, the mother ship of international terrorism, is about to collapse," Mr Graham said.

"The captain of the ship, the ayatollah, is stone-cold dead." However, the senator also said that "Cuba's next.