🇮🇷🇮🇱 — REPORT: Plainclothes Iranian security forces have rounded up thousands in a campaign of mass arrests and intimidation and are holding detainees in secret lockups after crushing nationwide unrest

🔴 Rights groups say authorities cut internet access and used overwhelming force; HRANA reports 6,373 dead and 42,486 arrests.

🔴 UN human rights office and Mai Soto warn detainees face risk of torture and unfair trials; many held in unofficial detention sites including warehouses.

🔴 Activists, lawyers and two Iranian officials say roundups target recent protesters, people arrested in prior years and their family members to deter renewed protests.

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🇳🇴🇰🇷⚡️ — NEW: Norway selected Hanwha Aerospace’s Chunmoo multiple launch rocket system over Western competitors in a 19 billion Norwegian kroner procurement.

🔴 Deal covers 16 launch systems and an unspecified larger number of missiles across three range variants, including a 500‑kilometer option.

🔴 Government says Chunmoo alone met requirements for performance, delivery speed, cost, and full system integration; deliveries of launch units and training planned 2028–2029, missiles 2030–2031, full operational status within four years.

🔴 Hanwha offered industrial cooperation with Norwegian firms valued at 120% of the contract and payment terms starting on delivery; supply security bolstered by Polish production lines.

🔴 Kristelig Folkeparti opposed the choice in the Storting, preferring a Norwegian‑European cooperation option.


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🇪🇺🇮🇷🇮🇱 — NEW: European Union foreign ministers agreed to add the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to the EU’s list of terrorist organizations.

🔴 European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas wrote “Repression cannot go unanswered” after the decision.

🔴 Israel welcomed the move; Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar called it “historic” and an Israeli official said it will make it far easier to build legal cases against IRGC members.

🔴 The decision followed a brutal crackdown on nationwide protests that killed thousands, and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called the listing a “major strategic mistake.”

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🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷🇸🇦❗️ — NEW: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a security consultation on a "classified topic" as US President Donald Trump is expected to decide in days on a possible strike against Iran.

🔴 Israel reportedly expects a significant Iranian attack on it if the US strikes; Jerusalem believes even a limited US strike will prompt a large Iranian response.

🔴 IDF Intelligence Directorate chief Maj. Gen. Shlomi Binder is in Washington sharing requested target intelligence with Pentagon, CIA and White House officials.

🔴 US moving what Trump called a "massive armada" to the region; a potential Trump directive is expected once assets are in place and Iran plans a live-fire drill in the Strait of Hormuz.

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🇸🇾 🇷🇺 ⚡️ — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov:

The issue of prosecuting former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was closed long ago.

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🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — The Wall Street Journal reports that President Donald Trump was briefed on several military options against Iran, including a "Grand Plan" for a large-scale bombing campaign targeting regime and Revolutionary Guard installations.

🔴 Smaller options discussed include attacks on symbolic Iranian targets and cyberattacks on Iranian banks.

🔴 The briefing also covered stricter sanctions as a potential measure.

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🇮🇷 ⚡️ — spokesman of the iranian army:

"The 12 day war has taught us that hesitation is not permissable."

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🇺🇸 ❌ 🇬🇧❗️ — REPORT: U.S. Coast Guard removed the captain and first officer of a Russian-flagged oil tanker from UK territory after the vessel was brought to the Moray coast in Scotland, prompting criticism from Scotland’s justice secretary over “Scottish jurisdiction and Scots law.”

🔴 Scotland’s Court of Session had issued an interim order (sought by the captain’s wife) aimed at preventing UK/Scottish authorities from removing the crew from Scottish jurisdiction, but the court lifted it after being told the U.S. had already transferred the two officers from the tanker Marinera onto the USCG cutter Munro and out of the court’s territorial reach.

🔴Scottish officials said they were not given full information and received limited notice as events unfolded; Justice Secretary Angela Constance cited lack of communication, no advance notice that the vessel would be sailed into Scottish waters, and raised concerns about public confidence and respect for Scottish legal processes.

🔴 The U.S. Department of Justice had approached Scotland’s prosecutors for mutual legal assistance (a step typically linked to extradition processes) on January 16, but withdrew that request on Monday; Scottish authorities said they never detained or controlled the captain, first officer, or crew.

🔴 The remaining 26 crew members—reported to include Russian, Indian, Georgian, and Ukrainian nationals—are seeking to leave the UK voluntarily; plans are being made to fly five to the U.S. and the rest to their home countries.

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🇮🇷 🇦🇿 ⚡️ — Azerbaijan says they will not allow their airspace to be used in an attack on Iran.

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🇮🇱 ❌ 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — Occupation forces raid Dheisheh refugee camp in the city of Bethlehem, south of the West Bank

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — Trump:

we have many large and very powerful ships that are sailing to Iran at the moment. It would be great if we didn't have to use them.

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🇺🇸 🇨🇺 ⚡️ — Trump signs executive order declaring a "national emergency" over Cuba, and will impose additional tariffs on countries supplying Cuba with oil.

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⚡️ — The martyr leader Ra'fat Salama with the martyr leader Muhammad al-Sinwar, in 2005.

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🇮🇱 🇵🇸 ⚠️ — BREAKING: Israel is constructing large camps in Gaza equipped with surveillance and facial recognition technology to house the population.

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