🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Protests continue into the night and spread into different cities, including Karaj, Malard and Varamin.

Video from Hamadan, Iran. Contrary to reports, the majority of the protests remain calm and are widely covered by Iranian state affiliated media.

Israel's Mossad has called on Iranians to continue protesting, and in larger numbers.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently meeting Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- BREAKING : Russian Foreign Minister S. Lavrov claimed Ukraine attempted to attack Vladimir Putin's personal residence in the region of Novgorod.

According to him, Russia's stance concerning the ongoing peace talks will change due to this attempted attack.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Kiev attempted to attack Putin’s state residence with 91 UAVs, all the drones were destroyed," - Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: Ukrainian President Zelensky says Russia is preparing to attack government buildings in Kiev.

"A strike on the capital is possible.

Especially since this person [Sergei Lavrov]—if one can even call him a person—said that they would choose “appropriate targets,” which means they are issuing threats.

I believe that today, President Trump, his team, and Europeans must get involved and carry out the necessary work with those people who just yesterday were saying that they really want to end the war," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Now the Russians have invented an obviously fake story about an alleged strike on some residence of the Russian dictator, so that they have a pretext to continue attacks on Ukraine, in particular strikes on Kiev, and to refuse to take the necessary steps to end the war," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Trump and Putin had a "positive" phone call on the Ukrainian issue, the White House reports.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Putin made it very clear to Trump that Russia’s position would be revised in light of what Kiev is carrying out as state-sponsored terrorism," - The Kremlin.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump, speaking about Kiev's attempt to attack Putin's residence, stated that he could not even imagine such crazy actions," - The Kremlin.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump stated that such an attack by Kiev would affect the US's approach to working with Zelensky," - The Kremlin.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump added, “Thank God we didn’t give Zelensky Tomahawks,” and said the incident will affect U.S. policy toward Kiev," - The Kremlin.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan's Defense Ministry reports China breached its territorial waters in four different locations.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is now meeting Secretary of War Hegseth.

🇹🇼 🇨🇳 Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense announced in its press conference this morning that there is an 8th unannounced warning zone for the PLA's "Justice Mission 2025" drills around Taiwan.

Exercises within this zone will take place 0900 to 1100 on December 30.

📎 Taiwan Security Monitor

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "I hear that Iran is trying to build up again, and if they are, we’re going to have to knock the hell out of them. But I hear they want to make a deal," - President Trump, during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "I won't talk about overthrowing the Iranian regime," - President Trump, during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Yes, [I will allow Netanyahu to strike Iran] over its ballistic missiles. For Iran's nuclear, even faster," - President Trump, during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.