🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: Federal prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

🇺🇸⚡️- “The inquiry, which includes an analysis of Mr. Powell’s public statements and an examination of spending records, was approved in November by Jeanine Pirro, a longtime ally of President Trump who was appointed to run the office last year, the officials said.” - NYT.

🇺🇸⚡️- "On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last June," - Jerome Powell.

🇺🇸🇲🇽🇻🇪⚡️- An unnamed Mexican official on President Trump’s proposal of an American military operation on the Mexican drug cartels after Operation Absolute Resolve.

“When we saw what they did in Venezuela, it made us think, Oh boy, this is more serious than we thought, and we are on the list of who could be next, and worse, we have been warned,” - NYT.

🇺🇸⚡- Jerome Powell says the criminal investigation is a threat over the Fed's refusal to lower interest rates.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- ‎”That father figure who sits there with arrogance and pride, passing judgment on the entire world, he too should know that usually the tyrants and oppressors of the world, such as Pharaoh and Nimrod and Reza Khan and Mohammad Reza and the likes of them, when they were at the peak of their pride, were overthrown, This one too will be overthrown.” - Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khameni.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Trump told reporters on Air Force One that Iran reached out to the U.S. yesterday and proposed holding talks on a nuclear deal. 'We may meet them'" - Barak Ravid of Axios and Israeli Channel 12.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump says Iran wants to negotiate a nuclear deal, and the meeting is being set up but the US 'may have to act before the meeting.'

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Trump posts an image to Truth Social calling himself the Acting President of Venezuela.

🇮🇷⚡️- "The situation in Iran is now under our full control." - Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

🇮🇷⚡️- Protests in support of the Islamic Republic are currently taking place in multiple cities across Iran.

🇸🇩🇪🇹⚡- For the second day in a row, Sudan carried out airstrikes on Yabus, a Sudanese border town near Ethiopia, currently under al-Hilu control (pro Rapid Support Forces, RSF).

Sudan claims to have struck convoys and military aid for the RSF entering from Ethiopia.

Map key:
Red: Sudanese Armed Forces,
Yellow: Rapid Support Forces,
Purple: Al-Hilu (pro Rapid Support Forces).

🇶🇦🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡- Very unusual: A short while ago, a Qatari military cargo aircraft took off from al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar, and landed at Sharurah Airport, southern Saudi Arabia, along the border with Yemen.

Sharurah Airport is used solely for domestic purposes by Saudi Arabia, which makes the Qatari visit even more extraordinary.

🇬🇧⚡- "The British government has identified a legal basis which it believes can be used to allow UK military to board and detain shadow vessels, ships operating without a valid flag, that sail through the British Channel.

It is understood there are plans for the armed forces to use these powers, in what is being described inside the government as a ramping up of action against the ships.

There are at least two shadow vessels that sail through the Channel daily, with most belonging to Russia," - BBC.

🇪🇺🇮🇷⚡- The European Union has stated they are considering imposing new and additional sanctions on Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “I say to the lying and arrogant President of the United States: we, the people of Iran, tell you the same thing our dear Hajj Qassem said to you: we are your enemies. We stand with Imam Hussein. We are waiting.

We are people of the battlefield for you. Come, so that you can see all your capabilities in the region destroyed. Know that the defenders of Iran will teach you a lesson you will not forget.” - Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.

🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian walking among the pro Islamic Republic protesters.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇲🇩⚡- Ukraine and Moldova have completely cut Pridnestrovie (Transnistria) off military supplies. Both countries have closed all checkpoints on all roads leading to the breakaway region of Moldova, which has left 1,500 Russian soldiers stranded on the territory.

Russian military logistics to its forces in Pridnestrovie would now be impossible by land as well as air.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israel will hold a solidarity march with the Iranian protestors tomorrow at 7:30pm local time, in Tel Aviv.

🇬🇪⚡- Former Georgian Prime Minister and former member of the ruling Georgian Dream Party, Irakli Garibashvili, has been sentenced to five years in jail after pleading guilty to money laundering charges.

🇺🇸⚡- "I'm the one who SAVED NATO!!!" - President Donald Trump.