🚨🇮🇱⚡️🇵🇸 - Israel once again violated the ceasefire in Gaza, killing at least 15 civilians in overnight airstrikes that largely targeted displaced people in camps across southern and northern Gaza.

🚨🇵🇰🇸🇩 - Pakistan’s UN peacekeeping contingent became increasingly active in Sudan from mid-last year, setting up medical camps and carrying out rescue missions. In December, Pakistan’s Quick Response Force stationed in Sudan rescued 41 Bangladeshi soldiers after the RSF killed six Bangladeshi troops at a camp in Kadugli.

Saudi media has also reported that Pakistan’s army chief, accompanied by Saudi intelligence officials, recently visited Port Sudan on the Red Sea in eastern Sudan—though this visit cannot be independently verified and was likely kept secret.

📸🇮🇷/🇮🇱 - Exiled Iranian actor Ali Abbasi says he turned down a role in Apple TV’s Tehran series, citing what he described as heavy “Mossad propaganda” in the noscript.

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🎥🇨🇳/🇫🇷 - China’s state broadcaster has given a rare glimpse of PLA war gaming, with footage of a simulated encounter between Chinese and French multi-role fighters.

The tabletop exercise pitted Chinese J-16 fighters against French Rafales, tactics also showcase Pakistan - India aerial warfare back in May in which Rafaels were downed.

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Reza Pahlavi to Trump:

Please be prepared to intervene to help the people of Iran.

🎥🇮🇱/🇵🇸/🇵🇰 - Indian Journalist: Pakistan army has been approached by the US to be part of Gaza stabilisation force, would you be okay with that?

Israeli official: No, we won’t.

The countries that don’t want to fight Hamas will not be a part of Gaza’s International Stabilisation Force. Hamas must be dismantled.

📸🇬🇧🇺🇲🇷🇺/🇮🇷 - A British cartoon depicting Iran (as a Persian cat on a Persian carpet) with a British lion, an American eagle and a Russian bear hovering over it.

The caption reads: "The, Cat that wanted to be alone."

The date at the top is December 5, 1945. At that time, Iran had been occupied for four years and divided between the USSR and Great Britain as a result of Operation Accord (1941). Due to Iran's lack of independence and subordination to the two allied powers, it became the venue for the Tehran Conference in 1943, the first in World War II.

A week after the cartoon was published, the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan was proclaimed in northern Iran. About a month later, the Kurdistan Republic (Mehabad Republic) emerged in the northwest of the country. Both were created with the support of the USSR — and both collapsed after it left Iran.

The British Empire completed its withdrawal from Iranian territory in March 1946, and the Soviet Union in May 1946.

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