🇮🇷 - Rerum Novarum's map of the ongoing protests in 12 different locations across Iran, as of 7:30pm local time.

🇾🇪⚡- UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council of Yemen to make an important announcement tonight on its official media channel, AIC Aden TV.

🇮🇷⚡- Protests in Tehran have begun.

🇾🇪⚡- BREAKING: UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council announces a two year transitional phase, at the end a popular referendum will be held on self-determination, with the aim of becoming an independent nation.

🇮🇷👑⚡️- In the first video, protesters are chanting "Javid Shah," which translates to "Long live the Shah," a pro-monarchist slogan that has been heard in Hamadan, Arak, Nahavand, Dehloran, and other cities across Iran.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi-backed Homeland Shield Forces, HEF, have entered al-Qatan along the N5 Highway towards Seiyun.

HEF have also begun moving south from Bin Aifan, reaching the Adhab junction, central Hadhramaut region, eastern Yemen.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- BREAKING: For the first time, the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council has publicly criticized Saudi Arabia.

"Saudi Arabia knowingly misled the international community by announcing a ‘peaceful operation’ that they never had any intention to keep peaceful.

This was evidenced by the fact that they launched 7 airstrikes minutes later.

Whilst they continue to spread an empty claim of wanting de-escalation, their actions indisputably prove otherwise," - Amr al-Bidh, Southern Transitional Council's Special Representative for Foreign Affairs.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The Israeli army is closely monitoring the demonstrations in Iran and is preparing for a possible escalation," - Walla.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The Iranian streets are responding positively to US President Trump's statements supporting the protests in Iran, as the momentum of the popular demonstrations in Iran is reaching its highest levels since the start of the protests this week," - Galei Tzahal, IDF official outlet.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "If there is an American or Israeli intervention to support the Iranian people, it will lead to the overthrow of the regime," - i24 (Israeli Channel 15).

🇺🇸🏴⚡️- "The Federal Bureau of Investigation disrupted an alleged plot to attack people inside a grocery store and fast food restaurant in North Carolina on New Year's Eve in support of the Islamic State terrorist group.

Christian Sturdivant, 18, of Mint Hill - a town outside Charlotte - was arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization." - Fox News.

🇺🇸🏴⚡️- The mugshot of the suspect in the foiled IS New Years terrorist attack, Christian Sturdivant.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- BREAKING: Saudi-backed Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance, HTA, have launched their own offensive in the Tarim area of Hadhramaut region, eastern Yemen.

HTA have advanced south from the al-Masnaah mountains and have captured Seiyun International Airport as well as the 1st Military Region headquarters.

The status of the city of Seiyun is currently unknown, which lies on the opposite side of Airport Road.

Meanwhile, further west the Saudi-backed Homeland Shield Forces clash with UAE-backed Hadhrami Elite Forces in al-Qatan.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪 - Saudi airstrikes against al-Qatan, Hadhramaut region, are false. Reports are mistaking Homeland Shield Forces artillery and rocket fire against the town as airstrikes.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- In the past few hours, large swathes of eastern Yemen have come under Saudi-backed Yemeni forces control.

Saudi-backed Yemeni forces have captured the city of Seiyun, Tarim and the Tena-Sana highway, eastern Hadhramaut region. The entire Shipping Road near the Oman border, al-Mahrah region, has also come under Saudi-backed Yemeni troops control.

Reports of UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council troops withdrawing from the coastal towns and cities.