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🇺🇸❌🇨🇺 — Possible U.S. military strike against Cuba "put on the back burner."

🇺🇸🇮🇷 — Trump: I will soon declare the Strait of Hormuz as a territory of the United States.

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Trump regime changed Iran but not in the way he wanted Mojtaba Khamenei Is Planning for a Long War Several months into his tenure as supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei is beginning to put his own stamp on Iran’s military and national security establishment. In a sweeping series of appointments, he has effectively recreated Iran’s senior command, reorganizing the institutions responsible for managing both war and diplomacy. The emerging command structure points toward a broader shift in how Tehran intends to manage the next phase of the conflict: more centralized military command; a greater emphasis on offensive operations and imposing more severe costs to strengthen deterrence; and tighter integration of military, economic, diplomatic, and domestic-security policy. Yet this does not necessarily mean abandoning negotiations. Rather, the appointments suggest that Tehran is trying to pair diplomacy with a harder conception of deterrence, centered on preserving and strengthening its ability to damage its adversaries so that negotiations produce a durable settlement rather than another pause before renewed conflict. The clearest expression of that approach may be Khamenei’s choice of Mohsen Rezaei to lead the Supreme National Security Council, the institution charged with coordinating Iran’s military, diplomatic, economic, and security policies. Rezaei is often described simply as a veteran hard-liner or former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). But that understates his significance. Rezaei has long stood out as a strategic thinker and institution-builder within Iran’s military establishment. During his 16 years commanding the IRGC, he helped transform it into a sprawling military organization, developing its ground, air and naval forces; the Quds Force, responsible for operations abroad; and Khatam al-Anbiya, the central headquarters for coordinating major military operations. His role thus extended beyond helping to direct the Iran-Iraq War to building institutions and capabilities that would shape how Iran wielded military power for decades to come. But his wartime record also reveals the harder edge of that strategic outlook, particularly when it came to determining when Iran had achieved enough to end a conflict on acceptable terms. The rest of Khamenei’s appointments reinforce this picture. Ali Abdollahi, the new chief of the Armed Forces General Staff, has been tasked with completing the integration of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters into the General Staff, a reorganization that would further centralize wartime command and coordination. His mandate emphasizes preparedness for “conventional, modern, cognitive, and hybrid threats.” Ahmad Vahidi, meanwhile, has been formally confirmed as IRGC commander and promoted to major general after assuming the post following Mohammed Pakpour’s assassination. Khamenei instructed him to pursue “maximum deterrence” while maintaining readiness for “powerful offensive operations against the enemy.” Iranian commentators have highlighted the latter phrase as an unusually explicit articulation of offensive operations as part of the IRGC commander’s mandate. Hossein Taeb—the controversial former head of the IRGC’s intelligence arm, closely associated with the repression of dissent— was made the head of the Basij. Taeb has been instructed to strengthen its “public intelligence network,” exploit new technologies, and deepen neighborhood-level organization. The dominant view in Tehran now holds that this restraint had the opposite effect, reinforcing perceptions in Washington and Israel that Iran was weak and vulnerable, its responses predictable, and the costs of attacking it manageable. The lesson drawn from the wars since June 2025 is therefore not simply that Iran needs greater military capabilities, but also that it must demonstrate the willingness to use them in ways that impose sufficiently severe military and economic costs to discourage its adversaries from escalating again. 🔗 https://archive.ph/IIOgR

🇸🇦🇺🇸⚡️ — In Saudi Arabia, it is reported that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with the commander of CENTCOM, Admiral Brad Cooper.

🇺🇸❌🇨🇺 ⁉️ — The US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, stated that the United States is considering all possible actions regarding Cuba, including military action.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷— During the conflict with Iran, the United States lost at least 45 of its MQ-9 Reaper strike drones, which represents approximately 25% of the entire fleet of these drones. The total losses are estimated to be more than $1.3 billion.

🇮🇹💥❗️ — It is reported that a massive explosion hit the KNDS Ammo Italy S.p.A (ex Simmel Difesa) ammunition plant in Colleferro today ➡️ Despite the size of the explosion, no injuries have been reported. ➡️ This plant supplies a lot of European armies with medium and large calibre munitions. ⁉️ So far, it is unknown how this happened for now. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ 💧 Rainbet.com the #1 Non-KYC Crypto Casino & Sportsbook @rainbetcom ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ @BellumActaNews

🇺🇲 — ARQUIVO: PERSEGUIÇÃO TERMINA EM CONFRONTO POLICIAL EM OHIO Um homem de 37 anos, identificado como John P. Johnson, é acusado de assaltar um funcionário da Brink’s sob a mira de uma arma, em Elyria, Ohio, no dia 21 de janeiro. Após fugir em um Hyundai…

🇺🇲 — ARQUIVO: PERSEGUIÇÃO TERMINA EM CONFRONTO POLICIAL EM OHIO Um homem de 37 anos, identificado como John P. Johnson, é acusado de assaltar um funcionário da Brink’s sob a mira de uma arma, em Elyria, Ohio, no dia 21 de janeiro. Após fugir em um Hyundai preto, Johnson foi perseguido por várias agências policiais em velocidades superiores a 160 km/h. A fuga terminou após policiais utilizarem dispositivos para furar os pneus, fazendo o veículo bater. Armado, o suspeito fugiu para um complexo residencial e invadiu um apartamento, onde manteve uma mulher e seus quatro filhos sob ameaça. Imagens de uma câmera de segurança registraram o momento em que um policial entrou no imóvel. Segundo a investigação, 15 disparos foram efetuados em cerca de 4 segundos após a invasão, e a perícia confirmou que os projéteis encontrados vieram da arma do policial. 🤣 Detalhe curioso: depois de descarregar o pente no criminoso, o policial ainda manda: “Não se mexa e coloque as mãos na cabeça!”

🇻🇪🤝🇮🇱#BREAKING: After 17 years, Venezuela and Israel restored his diplomatic relations.

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⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show disruptions to internet connectivity in parts of western #Colombia corresponding to infrastructure outages after a ~7.4 magnitude earthquake

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 1134 Ukrainian loitering munitions (kamikaze drones) of the aircraft type have been shot down over Russian regions in the past 24 hours.

🇺🇸✈️ — Two unidentified aircraft were intercepted by U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets in a restricted airspace over the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

🇷🇺✈️🚫 — Temporary restrictions have been introduced at Krasnodar Airport for the arrival and departure of aircraft, according to Rosaviatsiya (the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency).

🇺🇸💵— The U.S. Senate has approved government funding through December, averting a potential government shutdown, according to the Associated Press. ➡️The agency described the vote as unusual. In most cases, either the Senate or the House of Representatives delays or blocks budget legislation until the start of the fiscal year in an effort to secure political concessions. ➡️This time, however, the Senate approved the funding nearly two months before the new fiscal year begins, and the measure passed with almost unanimous support.

🇦🇲📞🇦🇿 — Nikol Pashinyan held a phone call with the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev ➡️The parties discussed the first anniversary of the Washington peace summit, noting the role of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in the peace process and the progress made in normalizing relations over the past year. ➡️Pashinyan and Aliyev also discussed the development of trade and economic relations, the supply of Azerbaijani oil products to Armenia, the transit of goods through Azerbaijan, and the implementation of the TRIPP route. 🔗 https://t.me/bagramyan26/100692

🇺🇦🤝🇷🇸🔺— Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Serbia for the first time, a country with close ties to Russia.

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺💥 — Over the past week, 1,984 drones flew towards the Moscow region, and the majority of them were neutralized at a distance, according to Sobyanin. 🔗https://t.me/tass_agency/389287