DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s new supreme leader released his first statement since succeeding his late father, saying Thursday that Iran would keep up its attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbors and use the effective closure of the strategic Strait of Hormuz as leverage against the United States and Israel. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei , 56, who Israel suspects was wounded in the opening salvo of the war, did not appear on camera, and his statement was read by a state TV