🇺🇸 - No unusual US military build-up in the Middle East. C-17s travel in and out of the Middle East multiple times a day, every day of the year.

The large number of C-17s that arrived in the UK earlier this month, were used to seize Bella-1, as Rerum Novarum predicted. They did not make their way to the Middle East.

🇮🇷⚡- Iranian opposition outlet 'Iran International' reports that 2,000 protestors have been killed since the start of the ongoing protests.

🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: An Iranian commander of a missile unit in the Kashan County, Isfahan Province of central Iran, has been assassinated in a drone strike.

🇮🇷⚡️- Streets of Iran are relatively quiet now, with a large decrease in the number of protests. There is no unusual U.S. military buildup in the Middle East; any reports claiming otherwise are unequivocally false.

🇸🇾⚡- The last remaining Asayish (pro-SDF) fighters have withdrawn from Aleppo city to SDF-controlled northeast Syria.

🇱🇾🇸🇴🇦🇪⚡- "The last UAE military aircraft flight transiting through Saudi Arabian airspace en route to eastern Libya, from the UAE, was observed on January 5. Since then, no further flights have been detected.

It is also notable that flights departing al-Kufrah (southeast Libya) for Bosaso (northern Puntland) are no longer routing through Egyptian airspace or the Red Sea.

UAE military aircraft now take longer routes, for example, from the UAE to Bosaso (Puntland) it passes through Oman. And from Bosaso (Puntland) to al-Kufrah (southeast Libya), it travels through Ethiopia, South Sudan and Chad," - Afrimeosint.

🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇱⚡- "British officials met with their counterparts from Germany and France to begin preparations for deploying a force in Greenland," - The Telegraph.

🇮🇷⚡️- The Artesh (Iran’s army) vows to protect the Islamic Republic and stand by it against the “protesters.” - WSJ.

Many people had hoped that the Artesh would defect against the Islamic Republic.

🇺🇸🇬🇱⚡️- BREAKING: "President Trump has ordered the US military to draft invasion plans for Greenland. However, senior military officials say it would be illegal and lack congressional support. The most aggressive push is coming from the hardline advisers associated with Stephen Miller.

Officials have tried diverting Trump toward less drastic options, while diplomats have war-gamed scenarios ranging from military or political coercion to a compromise in which Denmark grants the US expanded military access to Greenland

The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations elsewhere around the world, and say it's like dealing with a 5 year old," - The Daily Mail.

Credit: TabZ Live.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss regional issues. The topics of Gaza and the Iranian protests were raised, Barak Ravid of Israeli Channel 12 reports.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Trump has not yet made a final decision, but official sources noted that he is seriously considering approving an attack in response to the Iranian regime's attempts to suppress the protests. The president was presented with a variety of options, including strikes against non-military targets in Tehran," - The New York Times.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Russia's war in Ukraine has now lasted a day longer than the Soviet Union - Nazi Germany war of WWII.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- High alert for possible U.S. strikes on Iran. - Israeli officials tell Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Iran warned President Trump that any American attack would lead Tehran to retaliate by striking Israel and U.S. military bases in the region. - Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.

🇮🇷 - 60 hours have passed since the internet blackout in Iran started, and Iran is still under a internet shutdown with only 1% of the usual recorded traffic.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent said the US could lift more sanctions off Venezuela "as soon as next week," to help support oil sales," - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "Venezuela has started the process, in a BIG WAY, of releasing their political prisoners.

Thank you! I hope those prisoners will remember how lucky they got that the USA came along and did what had to be done.

I HOPE THEY NEVER FORGET! If they do, it will not be good for them.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!" - President Donald Trump.

🇸🇦🇴🇲🇦🇪⚡- "Oman provided Saudi Arabia with intelligence and supported it in launching military strikes against the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council of Yemen," - Middle East Eye.

Note, Oman had difficult relations with Southern Yemen last century, and has historically had close ties to the northern tribes of Yemen (who make up the majority of Ansarullah). Oman is also playing the role of a mediator between Riyadh and Sana'a.

🇮🇷 - Iranian opposition media, 12 hours after Rerum Novarum, have begun to confirm the assassination of an Iranian missile commander in Kashan, central Iran.

The car of the commander of a missile unit within the IRGC, Reza Kasab, was struck by a small one-way drone while driving.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The security services have informed the political level that they are not monitoring any Iranian preparations for an immediate attack on Israel," - Galei Tzahal, IDF official outlet.

🇪🇹🇸🇩⚡- Ethiopia has begun constructing a major military base along the border of Sudan's Sennar region. The work on the site began in April 2025.

The large camp has 650 tents and 6 warehouses, enough to accommodate over 3,000 fighters. According to the Qatari Think Tank 'Eekad' the purpose of the base is to station the Rapid Support Forces, with the possibility of opening a new front against Sudan via the Sennar region.

Ethiopian media has recently been amplifying a false claim of an alleged build-up of TPLF-70 (anti Addis Ababa Tigray group in Sudan) along the disputed Fasherga region.

In recent months, Afrimeosint reports a surge of UAE-linked military cargo aircraft arriving in Ethiopia.