— 🇺🇸/🇸🇾 UPDATE: Several missiles impacted around / inside Mezzeh Airbase on the outskirt of Damascus, used mainly by the U.S. Air Force since Jolani's takeover

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— 🇮🇷 UPDATE: The protests in Tehran have turned into riots, security forces began to use rubber bullets to clear the streets

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— 🇻🇪/🇮🇷 NEW: Venezuela's Foreign Minister called Iran's Foreign Minister Araqchi

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—❗️🇻🇪/🇺🇸 BREAKING: Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez has been inagurated as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

A while ago, she made a statement on TV saying that Venezuela would never accept being a 'colony of any imperial power'.

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— 🇮🇷 WATCH: Security forces put an end to the violent riots in Narmak, Tehran

The guy kept shouting 'death to the dictator' even after he was caught, which was not a smart move for him.

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—❗️🇮🇷/☢️ NEW: Iran has almost finished construction of a concrete sarcophagus at the Taleqan-2 site, which was previously alleged to be the main location of explosive testing during Iran's 'AMAD' nuclear weapons program in the early 2000s

The main arch-roofed portion of the facility contains a large cylindrical chamber, likely for the purpose of internally containing high explosives experiments that could be applicable to nuclear weapons development. 

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇷🇺 NEW: Sources confirm to IRGC-affiliated Tasnim that Iran has acquired at least five Russian Mil Mi-28 'Havoc' attack helicopters, which have already been delivered, with further shipments pending.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇻🇪 NEW: Maduro las landed in New York; he will be escorted to jail, specifically the MDC (Metropolitan Detention Center), the same facility where rapper Sean P. 'Diddy' Combs is incarcerated

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> Maduro and Diddy in the same jail

Already 2026 isn't real.

—❗️🇮🇷 WATCH: Iranian violent rioter uses a flamethrower against security forces in Shiraz

He was shot and killed immediately.

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How about, like, not using flamethrowers against the police?

Maduro seems happy

— 🇺🇸/🇻🇪 President Maduro in handcuffs: 'Happy new year'

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— Very wholesome, Iranian security forces playing football with the local kids

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: A rioter tried to throw a grenade at security forces in Malard, but it exploded in his hand

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— 🇻🇪/🇺🇸/✡️ NEW: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's trial will be presided over by Jewish Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who was also assigned to oversee almost all 9/11 related civil lawsuits, including one in which he encouraged the families of 96 victims who questioned the failures in airline and airport security to take settlement money instead of taking the case to a public trial

According to the New York Times, Judge Hellerstein acknowledged that this resulted in a 'loss of information' to the public. A trial would have exposed a large body of internal documents and depositions to public light before a jury.

One of the victims' families stated that Hellerstein 'gutted the case so that the truth about what led to the events of 9/11 would never be told at trial.'

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