🇮🇷⚡️- "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, turned to a trusted and loyal lieutenant to steer the country: Ali Larijani, the country’s top national security official. Since then, Mr. Larijani, a 67-year-old veteran politician, a former commander in the Revolutionary Guards Corps and current head of the Supreme National Security Council, has effectively been running the country.

Mr. Khamenei named three candidates who could succeed him. They have never been publicly identified, but Mr. Larijani is almost certainly not among them because he is not a senior Shiite cleric — a fundamental qualification for any successor." - NYT.

🇺🇸🇸🇴⚡- "Somaliland is willing to give the US access to its rare earth minerals and a military base," - AFP.

🇫🇷🇺🇸⚡️- France summoned the American ambassador following comments of the American Embassy in France on Twitter regarding the killing of Quentin Deranque by antifas, per the AFP.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- The Afghan Ministry of Defense has vowed to respond to yesterday's attacks by Pakistan. Meanwhile, the Afghan Foreign Ministry has summoned the Pakistani ambassador to Kabul.

🇮🇳🇮🇱⚡- "On Wednesday, the Prime Minister of India, my friend Narendra Modi, will arrive in Israel.

In my vision, we will create a whole system of alliances around or within the Middle East, involving India, Arab countries, and Mediterranean nations such as Greece and Cyprus," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇮🇱⚡- "We will work to form a new axis against the collapsing Shia axis and the emerging Sunni axis," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "U.S. negotiators are ready to hold another round of talks with Iran on Friday in Geneva if they receive a detailed Iranian proposal for a nuclear deal in the next 48 hours." - A senior U.S. official told Axios.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Tehran could seriously consider a combination of exporting part of its highly enriched uranium stockpile, diluting the purity of its most highly enriched uranium, and the establishment of a regional enrichment consortium in exchange for the recognition of Iran's right to peaceful nuclear enrichment." - A senior Iranian officials told Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- On the 46th anniversary of the Miracle on Ice victory against the Soviet Union at the 1980 Olympics, Team USA has once again secured the Gold this time against Canada at the Milano Cortina 2026 Games.

lmao

🇺🇸⚡️- A victorious Team USA honors the late Johnny Gaudreau who was killed by a drunk driver in 2024.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- White House reaction to USA defeating Canada.