Ecuador rejects the disqualification of María Corina Machado: "It is contrary to the spirit of the Barbados Agreements"

https://alertas24.com/internacionales/ecuador-rechaza-inhabilitacion-de-maria-corina-machado-es-contraria-al-espiritu-de-los-atrabajos-de-barbados/

🇵🇾🇻🇪 Paraguay rejects the disqualification of María Corina Machado: "It is necessary to hold free and transparent presidential elections"

https://alertas24.com/internacionales/paraguay-rechaza-inhabilitacion-de-maria-corina-machado-es-necesario-llevar-elecciones-presidenciales-libres-y-transparentes/

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Biden's about to take the most consequential decision of his Presidency

🔶️ He wants to punish the perpetrators of the attack and deter Iran from its actions in the region. But doing so could put the US into direct confrontation with the leadership in Tehran, which has already been emboldened in the region since the Hamas attack, launching attacks in Iraq and Pakistan.

🔶️ He must also weigh the potential for further economic upheaval as the US contends with Houthi militants - another Iranian proxy - that has roiled global shipping and sparked fears of fresh economic turmoil by targeting commercial ships in the Red Sea, which accounts for 12% of global trade.

🔶️ “The Biden administration is going to have to tread a very delicate line in trying to respond forcefully enough to restore some modicum of deterrence so this doesn’t happen again, while not undertaking a response that escalates the conflict,” said Jonathan Panikoff, director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative and former deputy national intelligence officer at the National Intelligence Council.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-28/biden-faces-pressure-to-confront-iran-after-us-troops-killed

https://archive.ph/2aY7f

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 "A strike killing Americans would force a stronger response than what the US has done so far, a person familiar says" - Bloomberg

🔶️ "One possibility is covert action that would see the US strike Iran without claiming credit for it but sending a clear message regardless. The Biden administration could also target Iranian officials directly."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-28/biden-faces-pressure-to-confront-iran-after-us-troops-killed

https://archive.ph/2aY7f

📎 Faytuks

🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇮🇱 US State Department says China has seen a rapid increase in “online discourse of antisemitic tropes that Jews control the United States” following Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

https://www.jns.org/us-state-department-warns-of-jew-hatred-emerging-from-asia/

📎 AF Post

— Admin promises not to explore too much unnecessarily this rabbit role, but we already spoke about them here

⚡SyriacPress: Syriac Orthodox Church in Zalin (Qamishli) was vandalized.