📢 🇾🇪 🇾🇪 "We consider all American and British ships and warships participating in the aggression against our country as hostile targets within the target bank of our forces."

- Yemeni Armed Forces

🇮🇷 🇮🇷 🇾🇪 Iran’s Revolutionary Guard deployed in Yemen

🔶️ The IRGC has stationed missile and drone trainers and operators in Yemen, as well as personnel providing tactical intelligence support to the Houthis, U.S. and Middle East officials told Semafor. The IRGC, through its overseas Qods Force, has also overseen the transfer to the Houthis of the attack drones, cruise missiles, and medium-range ballistic missiles used in a string of strikes on Red Sea and Israeli targets in recent weeks, these officials said.

🔶️ The Houthis say that its military operations are designed to aid the Palestinian militant group, Hamas, which has been locked in a three-month war with Israel. On Monday, the Pentagon said the Houthis struck a U.S.-owned and -operated container vessel, the M/V Gibraltar Eagle, in the Red Sea, but caused no significant damage. The Houthis fired a second anti-ship ballistic missile into the southern Red Sea, the U.S. Central Command said, but it “failed in flight and impacted on land in Yemen.”

🔶️ The IRGC’s overall presence inside Yemen is overseen by Gen. Abdul Reza Shahlai, a Tehran-based commander whom the Trump administration attempted to assassinate in a 2020 drone strike inside Yemen, U.S. and Mideast officials said. American intelligence believes Shahlai is deeply involved in Tehran’s overseas terrorist operations through his role as the Qods Force’s deputy commander.

🔶️ This includes a role in overseeing an unsuccessful 2011 Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s then-ambassador to the U.S., Adel al-Jubeir, at a Washington, D.C. restaurant. Shahlai, who’s been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department, also helped oversee IRGC attacks against U.S. military personnel in Iraq over the past two decades. The Department of Justice offered $15 million in 2019 for information related to the commander’s operations and networks.

🔶️ Last month, the White House declassified some information related to Iran’s backing of the Houthis, including the intelligence and targeting support. But it didn’t reference the IRGC’s on-ground presence in Yemen, or Shahlai’s role in the Houthis’ operations.

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/15/2024/irans-revolutionary-guard-deployed-in-yemen

#BREAKING

🇺🇸❌🇮🇶❗️ — 📰 Sky News Arabia correspondent: Several missiles were shot down targeting an international coalition base at Erbil airport

https://fxtwitter.com/SkyNewsArabia_B/status/1747001671538917884

— 🇮🇷 🇮🇷 The IRGC's Ballistic Missiles targeted the following sites:

- 🏴 ISIS gatherings & command points in Syria.

- 🇺🇸 U.S. Consulate in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan.

- 🇮🇱 A Mossad spy-headquarters / fortified safehouse near Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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🇪🇨🚓☄️ — Rises to Over 1,500 the Number of Criminals Arrested in Ecuador

👮‍♀️ According to a report released by the Armed Forces of Ecuador, approximately 15,400 operations have been carried out by the country, resulting, so far, in the arrest of 1,534 individuals, of whom 158 are being accused of terrorism.

➡️ The Ecuadorian government has identified over 20 criminal groups as terrorists and stated that they are responsible for "acts of violence, sabotage, and extortion." The Armed Forces reported conducting 41 operations against these groups, resulting in the death of five criminals.

📊 Additionally, the Armed Forces reported that, up to now, 27 prisoners who escaped from the prisons where they were serving their sentences have been recaptured, and 201 prison guards and administrative staff have been freed.

➡️ Among the materials seized during the operations by Ecuadorian security forces are hundreds of firearms, bladed weapons, explosives, ammunition, drugs, money, fuel, and mobile phones. Stolen vehicles and motorcycles have also been recovered.

‼️ According to information from the Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo, the country's Armed Forces stated that they will continue their operations INDEFINITELY, resembling the practice of a State of Emergency in El Salvador.

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🇪🇺🏦💰EU Banking Watchdog Extends Anti-Money Laundering Measures to Cover Crypto Firms.

The European Banking Authority's new guidance for crypto firms will take effect on Dec. 30.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/01/16/eu-banking-watchdog-extends-anti-money-laundering-measures-to-cover-crypto-firms/