Former MI6 Chief Richard Moore:

The Iranian regime has lost all legitimacy. It has nothing to offer its own people.

They have been prepared to kill thousands of unarmed protesters. We may never know how many people were slaughtered on the streets.

Eventually, it will fall.

The regime has an opportunity to pivot to diplomacy. Regime change is notoriously difficult.

There is an unavoidable element of uncertainty and mystery.

NEW: Iran’s IRGC says it seized two oil tankers in the Persian Gulf carrying about one million liters of smuggled fuel and around 15 foreign crew members.

Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) signed an MoU with U.S. energy giant Chevron to explore and produce oil and natural gas.

Keir Starmer to Epstein victims:

I am sorry. Sorry for what was done to you.

Sorry that so many people with power failed you.

Sorry for having believed Mandelson's lies and appointed him.

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The last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia, known as New START, has expired, raising fears of a new global arms race.

Keir Starmer:

Our reforms to migration will boost integration and restore trust.

Our reforms will help return us to a situation where the migration policy cannot be exploited by people who think that whiteness is the same thing as Britishness.

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Keir Starmer:

It is not hard to support the just cause of a Palestinian state without being antisemitic.

Millions of people do that, and I am one of them. It is the policy of this country to recognize Palestine.

And yet, on the marches that supposedly support that cause, you will often see racist banners and antisemitic hate.

BIG: The U.S. and Iran made small concessions, agreeing to hold talks in Oman, meet directly, focus on the nuclear program, and also discuss missiles and militant groups toward a possible deal.

Source: NYT

NEW: Three Chinese lawmakers linked to the defense and nuclear sectors were removed from their posts on Feb. 4 as part of China’s military anti-corruption drive.

The move targets figures tied to aviation and nuclear weapons research and is widely seen as part of Xi Jinping’s broader crackdown on corruption in the PLA and defense industries.

NEW: Reports claim U.S. forces have begun withdrawing from the Al-Shaddadi base in northeast Syria, with convoys moving toward Erbil in Iraq.

The move appears to be part of a broader U.S. drawdown from Syria following SDF–Damascus integration deals.

Greek media report that Athens is increasingly denying residence permit extensions for members of the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ).

According to Kathimerini, Greek authorities rejected extension requests from 44 Turkish citizens in 2025 on national security and public order grounds, up from just two in 2024.

The Greek City Times also reported a sharp decline in asylum approvals for Turkish nationals, dropping from 60.9% in 2023 to 4.7% in 2025.

Authorities are reportedly reviewing previously approved asylum cases linked to FETÖ and the PKK.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will visit Türkiye on 11 February 2026.

Mediators from Qatar, Türkiye and Egypt have proposed a framework for Iran–US talks set for Friday.

The plan calls on Iran to halt uranium enrichment for three years, cap it below 1.5 percent afterward, and transfer its enriched uranium stock to a third country.

The proposal also includes limits on ballistic missile use, a halt to arming regional allies, and a possible nonaggression agreement between Tehran and Washington.

Talks are expected to take place in Oman, attended by US envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

Source: Al Jazeera

U.S. and Russia are nearing a handshake deal to keep observing the New START nuclear treaty after it expires Thursday.

The agreement wouldn’t be legally binding but would have both sides follow the treaty’s limits for at least six months while negotiating a new framework.

Source: Axios

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Satellite images and witness testimony indicate Israeli forces bulldozed sections of the Gaza war cemetery in al-Tuffah, Gaza City, damaging graves of British, Australian and other allied soldiers from the First and Second World Wars.

Imagery shows gravestones removed, soil churned up and earth berms built with heavy machinery, changes that appeared between March and August last year.

The IDF said the site was an active combat zone.

Source: The Guardian

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Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

Do we want a technology that normalizes and amplifies deception, that turns privacy into a commodity, a society in which a techno-oligarch can intrude, as they did yesterday, into the mobile phones of millions of citizens to tell them lies?

I believe the answer must be a clear no, and they will not break us, because the voice of reason, of the social majority, and of democracy will not be bent by those algorithmic techno-oligarchs.

Trump:

I really think I probably should make it to Heaven.

I am not a perfect candidate but I did a lot of good for perfect people.

Trump:

I don’t know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat.

I really don’t.

Israel Charges Troops Over Smuggling Ring Supplying Gaza

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Trump:

I was a very good student too, but nobody would think so.

Trump:

Biden gave a little chunk of the military to Afghanistan — he left tanks and planes.

I said why didn’t you fly the planes out? He said, "well, nobody thought of it."

You could have flown them.