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🇺🇸🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡️— US State Department Response to China’s Military Exercises Near Taiwan

“China’s military activities and rhetoric toward Taiwan and others in the region increase tensions unnecessarily. We urge Beijing to exercise restraint, cease its military pressure against Taiwan, and instead engage in meaningful dialogue. The United States supports peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and opposes unilateral changes to the status quo, including by force or coercion”.

🔗https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/01/response-to-chinas-military-exercise-near-taiwan

👑👑❌🇮🇷🇮🇷 — There are nationwide calls for protests in Tehran tomorrow

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🇺🇦❌🇷🇺💥— Russian air defenses intercepted 201 Ukrainian kamikaze drones over the past seven hours, according to reports.

⚡️Twenty-four of the UAVs were shot down over the Moscow region.

🇮🇷⚡️— Iranian regime forces have opened fire on protesters, according to local reports.

➡️Sources also claim that demonstrators have captured several soldiers amid the clashes.

🇮🇷⚡️ Reports indicate that anti-Islamic protesters in Iran are now armed, with people seen carrying weapons in the city of Ahvaz.

The situation is described as a significant escalation.

—Tousi Tv

🇮🇷⚡️— A map released by the Faytuks Network shows the current status of protests across Iran.

🔴Red markers indicate protests ongoing since before January 1, 2026.

🟠Orange markers indicate protests that began on January 1, 2026.

🇮🇷⚡️List of protests at the end of Day 5 (1.1.26)

🗺Shiraz, Isfahan, Malard, Karaj, Zahedan, Kermanshah, Tehran, Mashhad, Shush, Hamadan, Dargahan, Najafabad, Yazd, Gorgan, Kerman, Arak, Nurabad, Foladshahr, Urmia, Izeh, Malayer, Shahrekord, Kazeroon, Genaveh, Farsan, Ahvaz, Sabzevar, Fasa, Dehloran, Asadabad, Ramhormoz, Shirvan, Eslamshahr, Zanjan, Saveh, Dezful, Farsan, Eslamabad-e Gharb, Kuhdasht, Marlik, Mamasani, Nahavand, Dorud, Yasuj, Aligoodarz, Khorramabad, Rasht, Jonghan, Babol, Kish Island, Lali, Baghmalek, Junaqan, Lordegan, Marvdasht, Juyabad, Bandar Ganaveh, Jahrom, Harsin, Robat Karim Qom, Kavar (fars province), Ilam, Azna, Vakilabad, Maali Abad, Firuzabad, Nishapur, Chaharbagh, Bandar Abbas, Robot Karim, Pardis

⚡️Protests reported in at least 69 locations.

🇮🇷🔥⚡️— Iranian protesters retaliate, setting Basij forces ablaze with Molotov cocktails.

🔗https://x.com/osint613/status/2006838281003233369?s=46

👑❌🇮🇷🇮🇷 — Iranian Protesters in Mashhad, Eastern Iran, stopped the arrest of one member of the crowd by the Basij during protests tonight

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🇮🇷⚡️— Iranian media report that a state of emergency has been declared in several cities across the country amid mass protests.

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🇮🇷⚡️—According to preliminary reports, Iranian security forces say they have regained full control of the situation after unrest linked to economic instability.

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🇮🇷⚡️—Iranian media report that multiple cities across the country have now been placed under full martial law.

🇮🇱🛫— According to Israeli journalist Yaron Avraham, the Prime Minister and his delegation have just departed Florida and are en route back to Israel.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦💥— Russian strikes have been carried out against targets in Zaporizhia.

👑❌🇮🇷🇮🇷 — In Marvdasht, Fars Province, Central Iran, as a NOPO (Counter-Terrorism/Riot Police unit) advanced into the city, a NOPO officer opened fire at the vehicle of a family slowly passing by at close range

👑👧🔒📝 — Six women detained during protests in Tehran have been transferred to the women’s ward of Evin prison, US-based rights group Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said.

The women were moved late on Wednesday after spending a day in intelligence custody, HRANA reported, citing an informed source.

They were identified as:

Elnaz Kari
Negar Ghanbari
Helena Rostami
Masoumeh Nouri
Fatemeh Hashempour
and Aida, who was identified only by her first name.

https://x.com/IranIntl_En/status/2006746053022814219

🇵🇰🤝👑👑 — A video shared on social media shows a protester spray-painting the slogan “Long live the King” on a wall in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan

🔗 Iran International English (@IranIntl_En)

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🇮🇷⚡️— Hengaw Organization for Human Rights says Iran’s protests have led to at least 119 arrests, 7 deaths, and 33 injuries so far.

—Faytuks Network