🇮🇷 - Disturbing footage from the recent Iranian protests show Basij security, armed with knives and batons, attack an unarmed woman.

The footage is time-stamped to the 8th of Jan.

🇫🇷🇷🇺 - The French Navy releases footage of its operation to seize the sanctioned Russian tanker GRINCH.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has advised Russian citizens against travelling to Iran "until the security situation has fully normalised." She also urges Russians in Iran to "follow safety precautions, avoid taking photos and videos, and comply with local law enforcement requests."

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡- CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper met with Iraq's Prime Minister Shia al-Sudani in Baghdad.

🇫🇷⚡️- The Urssaf, France's social tax collecting organism, has been hacked earlier this week. At least 12 million employees' data has been partially extracted from their databanks. The Urssaf has warned French citizens of a potentially increased amount of phishing emails in the coming weeks. No culprit has been found yet.

This is the third massive hack of a French public institution or ministry in under two months.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Today, amidst the Iranian regime’s brutal crackdown on peaceful protestors and its complete shutdown of internet access to conceal its abuses against the Iranian people, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control is increasing pressure on the regime’s shadow fleet.

OFAC is targeting nine shadow fleet vessels and their respective owners or management firms that have collectively transported hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of Iranian oil and petroleum products to foreign markets," - US Department of Treasury.

🇫🇷⚡️ – As local elections are set to take place in March in France, French far-left LFI party leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon said "LFI must represent the new France, the France of the Great Replacement".

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Special Envoy Witkoff and Kushner will meet Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in Jerusalem tomorrow evening, Israeli Channel 12 reports.

The three will likely discuss moving onto Phase Two of the Hamas-Israel ceasefire deal.

🇵🇰⚡- A major suicide attack at a wedding in the Dera Ismail Khan district of western Pakistan. The wedding was reportedly related to a senior military official of the peace committee.

5 dead so far, the death toll is expected to climb very high.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- British Airways, KLM and Air France have cancelled flights to certain destinations in the Middle East tonight.

🇹🇷🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "We have seen indications that Israel is preparing to attack Iran," - Turkey's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- "The Trump administration is weighing new tactics to drive regime change in Cuba, including imposing a total blockade on oil imports to the Caribbean country.

Preventing shipments of crude oil to the island would be a step-up from Trump’s statement last week that the U.S. would halt Cuba’s imports of oil from Venezuela, which had been its main crude supplier," - Politico.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper to arrive in Tel Aviv tomorrow to meet Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The Israeli security system estimates that Hamas will not agree to disarm, and the Southern Command has prepared extensive military plans in case of the renewal of fighting," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇩🇪🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡- Germany's Lufthansa has now also cancelled flights to Tel Aviv and Riyadh tonight.

🇨🇦🇨🇭🇮🇱⚡- Air Canada and Swiss Air have also cancelled flights to Tel Aviv.

🇺🇸⚡- "USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group is not yet in the CENTCOM area of responsibility, and has not crossed the line of demarcation from INDOPACOM to CENTCOM in the Indian Ocean.

This means that the USS Lincoln is not yet in the Gulf of Oman, or within striking distance of Iran," - Fox News.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🌎⚡️- “On Jan. 23, at the direction of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two narco-terrorists were killed and one survived the strike. Following the engagement, U.S. Southern Command immediately notified U.S. Coast Guard to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivor.”

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇳⚡️- UK PM Keir Starmer has pulled the bill that was going to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after treaty concerns and pressure from the Trump admin. Diego Garcia's central location in the Indian Ocean is incredibly strategic, enabling US power projection into the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. A transfer would have allowed China to consolidate and control the Fourth Island Chain.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iran will treat any attack—limited, kinetic, or unlimited—as an all-out war and respond in the hardest way possible. - Reuters citing an Iranian official.

🇮🇷⚡️- “We will defend Iran until death.” – Ali Jahanshahi, Commander of the Iranian Army (Artesh) Ground Forces, in a coordination meeting with the IRGC.