⚡️ — Regional sources to i24NEWS: Arab mediators attempted this evening to persuade the Iranians to agree to discuss additional issues. The Iranians had already informed them yesterday: "We are only prepared to discuss the nuclear topic."

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🇺🇸 🇷🇺 ⚠️ — Russia announces it is no longer "bound" by the last nuclear treaty with the United States

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🇷🇺 ⚠️ — Russia after the end of the START nuclear treaty: We will take the necessary military measures.

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🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 🇴🇲 🇹🇷 ⚡️ — The US rejected Iran's request to move the talks from Istanbul to Muscat and limit discussions to only the nuclear file, excluding ballistic missile and proxy network issues, Axios reports.

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🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — Advisor to the Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard:

American soldiers will be legitimate targets for Iran.

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🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — Oil prices have approached 70 US dollars per barrel since the American-Iran talks were cancelled.

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🇮🇱 🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 ⚠️ — The nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States are cancelled as of now.

🔴 Netanyahu’s office has announced that he will be holding a security cabinet meeting regarding Iran tomorrow.

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🇮🇱 🇺🇸 ⚡️ — With the failure of negotiations and Witkoff leaving the region tomorrow, it seems Netanyahu has succeeded in convincing Trump that there is no point in continuing the talks.

🔴 It appears the decision has been made.

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🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — Sources close to Iran report that the US military shot down an Iranian aircraft after it clashed with the aircraft carrier "Abraham Lincoln".

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🇺🇸 🇶🇦 ⚡️ — American tanker near Qatar

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — Trump:

Khamenei should to be worried.

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🇮🇷 ⚡️ — The Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces:

We are ready for any action by our enemies. We have changed our military doctrine from defense to offense, and we adopt a policy of asymmetric warfare. We have strengthened our deterrence capability by modernizing our ballistic missiles in all their technical aspects.

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🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 ⚡️ — NEW: Elon Musk called Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez a "true fascist totalitarian" after Sanchez proposed a ban on social media use by teenagers and X's Paris offices were raided by the Paris Public Prosecutor’s office.

🔴 Musk also labeled Sanchez a "tyrant and traitor to the people of Spain" after Sanchez said social media is a "failed state where laws are ignored and crimes are tolerated" and accused X of amplifying disinformation over Madrid’s regularisation of 500,000 undocumented immigrants.

🔴 The Paris Public Prosecutor’s office raided X’s Paris headquarters in a cyber crime probe into alleged manipulation of algorithms, fraudulent data extraction and use of AI chatbot Grok to produce child abuse images and sexually explicit deepfakes; X called the raid "an abusive and illegitimate" politicized action.

🔴 Elon Musk and former CEO of X Corp Linda Yaccarino have been summoned to a voluntary hearing on 20 April; investigations into Grok and xAI are also open by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, the European Commission and Ofcom, and X said it implemented technological measures in mid‑January to prevent misuse.

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🇮🇱 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — NEW: IDF says it struck and eliminated Ali Raziana, who served as the Commander of the Northern Gaza Brigade in the Islamic Jihad organization.

🔴 Raziana was a member of Islamic Jihad’s military high command, coordinated with Hamas to carry out attacks against IDF troops, oversaw hostage holding in northern Gaza, and moved to reestablish the Northern Gaza Brigade after the ceasefire.

🔴 The IDF and ISA also announced the killing of Muhammad Issam Hassan al‑Habil, who Shin Bet interrogations tied to the killing of IDF Cpl. Noa Marciano; Israeli forces said the strike brings closure for the Marciano family.

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🇮🇱 🇵🇸 — BREAKING: Israeli strikes killed at least 23 Palestinians in Gaza, shattering the idea that a “ceasefire” is in effect.

🔴 At least 23 people were killed, many of them children, in widespread attacks across Gaza.

🔴 The strikes occurred on Wednesday, 4 Feb 2026, according to the report.

🔴 Al Jazeera characterizes the raids as undermining the notion that a ceasefire was in place.

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🇺🇸 🇸🇾 ⚡️ — NEW: US launches five airstrikes in Syria on suspected ISIS sites

🔴 Five airstrikes carried out by US forces inside Syria

🔴 Strikes targeted locations identified as suspected ISIS sites

🔴 Report published by AL‑Monitor; no further operational details provided

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🇴🇲 ⚡️ — A round of negotiations will be held on Friday in Muscat.

🔴 Mediators succeeded in preventing the cancellation of the meeting.

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🇺🇸 ⚡️ — Axios reports from a US official: The Trump administration agreed to hold a meeting with the Iranians out of respect for the request of its allies in the region.

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🇺🇸 🇨🇳 ⚡️ — NEW: US Vice President JD Vance proposes creating a new critical mineral trading bloc and coordinating pricing floors to loosen China’s control over rare earths.

🔴 Vance said the bloc would guarantee American access and expand production among allies and partners, announced at a State Department meeting hosted by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

🔴 China holds 70% of global rare earth mining while the United States holds 12%; the White House also unveiled Project Vault, a new critical mineral stockpile.

🔴 Vance announced a pricing floor to attract private investment in mining and processing; President Donald Trump held an “excellent” call with China’s President Xi Jinping the same week.

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