🇬🇧⚡- "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.

🇪🇹 - The current situation in Ethiopia, as tensions escalate along the Ethiopia-Sudan border.

Rerum Novarum's map shows the area of control by the Ethiopian Armed Forces (excluding ally groups).

Note, the map does not include long-term inactive groups and their former areas of operations.

🇮🇷⚡- Death toll of Iranian security forces from the ongoing protests rises to 114, according to Iranian state media.

🇪🇹🇦🇪⚡- Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed returns from a secret visit to Abu Dhabi, UAE.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reached out to White House envoy Steve Witkoff over the weekend amid President Trump's threats of military force against the regime in support of the recent protests.

The outreach seemed to be an effort by Iran to deescalate with the US, or at least buy more time before Trump orders any action to further weaken the regime. Araghchi and Witkoff have discussed potentially holding a meeting in the coming days," - Axios.

🇪🇺🇮🇷⚡- "As the brave people of Iran continue to stand up for their rights and their liberty, today I have taken the decision to ban all diplomatic staff and any other representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran from all European Parliament premises." - President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola.

🇻🇦🇻🇪⚡- Pope Leo XIV met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the Vatican.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "US forces in the Middle East are ready for any emergency, any mission, and to defend themselves and our interests. The planning of a US military options against Iran has reached advanced stages," - A US official tells al-Jazeera.

🇺🇸🇮🇳🌏⚡️- “Pleased to share that India will be invited to join Pax Silica, a U.S.-led strategic initiative to build a secure, resilient, and innovation-driven silicon supply chain. As the world adopts new technology, it is essential that India and the United States work hand-in-hand together.” - U.S. Ambassador to India, Sergio Gor.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- President Trump and Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado will meet at the White House on Thursday.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The US will respond to Iran's offer to negotiate by presenting several preconditions:

- An end to the suppression of protests.
- Release of all detainees and protestors.
- The handover of all enriched uranium.
- The complete halting of uranium enrichment in Iran.
- Cessation of Iran's long-range ballistic missile program.
- Ending Iran's support for proxy groups in the region," - Israel Hayom.

🇫🇷🇮🇷⚡️- French non-essential embassy staff have left Iran per the AFP.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Washington is currently mulling over the decision to intervene in Iran amid the ongoing riots.

The Wall Street Journal reports that President Trump favors striking first and then extending diplomatically to Tehran. While senior advisors, including JD Vance, advocate for a diplomacy-first approach.

President Trump is meeting with senior officials on Tuesday to discuss and finalize Washington’s approach.

These are the listed options of potential intervention:

1) Ordering military strikes on regime sites
2) Launching cyberattacks
3) Approving new sanctions
4) Boosting antiregime accounts online.