🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "It is very possible that we are standing at a decisive moment, a moment in which the Iranian people will take their fate into their own hands," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "Venezuela issues a decree ordering police to arrest anyone involved in supporting the US operation," - Reuters.

🇺🇸⚡️- Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will not be running for re-election.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- Nicolas Maduro hires Barry Pollack, the lawyer of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, for his court case.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- BREAKING: "Venezuela orders a nationwide mobilization, and has declared a 'State of Emergency'.

The current government said it will counter the "imperialist attack" with armed resistance," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇨🇭🇻🇪⚡️- Switzerland has frozen all the assets held in the country by Nicolas Maduro and 37 individuals who were close to him.

The freeze is immediate and the Swiss Foreign Ministry did not indicate the worth of said frozen assets. No members of the current government are impacted.

🇮🇱 - Naftali Bennett's 12 hour countdown has expired.

🇾🇪⚡- Saudi-backed Yemeni Presidential Council has given the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council's President Aidarus al-Zubaidi 24 hours to leave Aden and the country.

Saudi-backed Homeland Shield Forces have recaptured the entirety of the al-Mahrah and Hadhramaut regions, and are threatening to advance into the rest of STC territory.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Arizona Supreme Court has been evacuated and is currently being investigated by ATF after a suspicious package that “tested positive for homemade explosives” was discovered.

🇮🇷🇻🇪🇮🇱⚡️- “The Jerusalem Post has received multiple indications that the US is considering some intervention in the ongoing Iran protests. At the same time, Israel is also checking if the removal of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro will make action against the Iranian regime possible.”

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- BREAKING: Saudi-backed Homeland Shield Forces have begun storming the Shabwah Governorate, UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council controlled central Yemen.

🇸🇾⚡- Heavy clashes between the SDF and Syrian government forces have erupted in the Dayr Hafr area, northern Syria.

The Syrian government accuses the SDF of targeting a Damascus-controlled checkpoint in the area.

🇸🇦⚡- "Saudi Arabia may be turning its back on the moderate Arab world, and cozying up to radical Islamist forces.

Saudi Arabia’s recent airstrike on Emirati military assets in Yemen signals a deeper shift: a quiet pivot away from Gulf unity and towards Turkey, Qatar, and the Muslim Brotherhood — including Hamas.

This isn’t just regional drama. This is a major threat to Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and the UAE - all of whom view the Muslim Brotherhood as an existential danger.

If Saudi Arabia joins this pro-Islamist axis, it will tilt the region toward extremism, politically, militarily, and ideologically," - The Jerusalem Post.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🌎⚡️- CES—the world’s premier tech expo, has been kicked off by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Las Vegas.

AI and robotics are center stage this year, with China expected to make a show of force of their most cutting edge technology.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇷🇺⚡- "Three nights ago, 200 of our greatest Americans went downtown in Caracas.

Seems those Russian air defenses didn’t work quite so well, did they?" - Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- U.S. officials have told Delcy Rodriguez that they want to see at least three moves from her:

1) Cracking down on drug flows;
2) Kicking out Iranian, Cuban and other operatives of countries or networks hostile to Washington;
3) And stopping the sale of oil to U.S. adversaries. -Politico.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- The U.S. believes Delcy Rodríguez is on a “short leash” and is confident it can steer her in whatever direction it wants before disposing of her and moving on.

One specific challenge facing the U.S. administration is that the Maduro regime is reportedly experiencing internal clashes and rivalries, with some figures taking a far more anti-U.S. stance, such as Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López.

Interim President Delcy Rodríguez faces an extremely difficult situation: cooperating with the U.S. risks her being overthrown internally, while refusing U.S. demands could result in her capture or death at the hands of U.S. forces. - POLITCO.

🇸🇦🇸🇴⚡- Saudi Arabia and Somalia have agreed to a major deal which would link Somalia's General Authority of Transport in Buhodle, Khaatumo region, with the Ministry of Ports and Sea Transport in Laasqoray, on the coast of Puntland-controlled eastern Sanaag.

The deal also includes providing Saudi access to the Port of Laasqoray, which is currently used by the Turkish navy and is undergoing expansion.

Note, both, Buhodle and Laasqoray, are in regions claimed by Hargeisa as Somaliland's territory.

🇸🇾🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi Arabia is worried over UAE's policies in Syria, where the Arab Kingdom believes the Emiratis are assisting the Druze separatism in As Suwaida, southern Syria, CNN reports.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Autonomous F.P.V. drones are making their way onto the Ukrainian battlefield, the New York Times reports.

These new drones, namely the ‘Bumblebee’, from a venture led by Google’s Eric Schmidt, use onboard AI to engage targets without the need for persistent operator communication, making them impervious to signal jamming and eliminating the need for burdensome physical fiber-optic connections.

It is not difficult to see where this capability could potentially lead. The technology could be used by terrorists to act out attacks with minimal perpetrator involvement, making suspect identification much more difficult. Hypothetically, parameters for an attack or assassination, including facial recognization and target location, could be loaded onto the drone’s chip, and then set to autonomously carry out the attack without satellite or radio communication. The data used in the attack would be destroyed in the explosion, and the only ways to identify the attacker would be by tracing the drone’s location or its hardware.