🇺🇸⚡️- The White House is posting AI-edited images of the people being arrested, increasing the risk that a judge or jury could dismiss the arrests.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "We have a lot of ships on the way to Iran, there's an aircraft carrier on the way there. I don't want anything to happen but we'll have to see what happens." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "We have a massive armada heading in direction of Iran." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Special Envoy Witkoff and Kushner have arrived at the Kremlin to meet Russian President Putin, Presidential Foreign Policy Aide Ushakov, and Russian Envoy Dmitriev.

🇺🇸⚡- "RECORD NUMBERS ALL OVER THE PLACE! SHOULD I TRY FOR A FOURTH TERM?" - President Donald Trump.

🇬🇧🇶🇦⚡- UK's Ministry of Defense reports the deployment of additional Typhoon fighter jets to Qatar's al-Udeid Air Base amid the regional tensions with Iran.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Witkoff-Putin meeting has ended, lasting over three hours.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- The Houthis have finally broken their silence on the events that unfolded in eastern Yemen over the past three months.

"The Saudi does not care about unity or secession. What matters to him is full control, occupation, and the domination over the Yemeni people. The Saudi is manipulating all political and military factions under its influence.

What happened after Emirati tools took control of al-Mahrah and Hadhramaut was a red line for the Saudi, because he considers those areas part of his influence," - Abdul Malik al-Houthi, Head of Ansarullah.

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡- "Dear Prime Minister Carney:

Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.

Thank you for your attention to this matter," - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡- "Maybe we should have put NATO to the test: Invoked Article 5, and forced NATO to come here and protect our Southern Border from further Invasions of Illegal Immigrants, thus freeing up large numbers of Border Patrol Agents for other tasks," - President Trump.

🇨🇦⚡️- Bill to ban children from using social media is being drafted by Liberal and Conservative MP's.

🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: Iran has carried out what is likely its first execution of a protestor.

The BBC reports Ali Rahbar, a sports coach from Mashhad, was executed yesterday morning, after he was arrested 10 days ago.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- Washington is considering a complete withdrawal of American troops from Syria, as Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa moved to wrest control of the northeastern part of the country from an American-backed Kurdish-led militia [SDF]," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇸🇦🇵🇸🇮🇱 - Prominent Israeli journalist Amit Segal's (of Israeli Channel 12) take on the post October 7, 2023, Middle East and whether Hamas was 'successful' in reshaping the region:

"Normalization with Saudi Arabia is dead for the foreseeable future. Qatar's plastic empire [Muslim Brotherhood affiliated groups] attacks on Israel via al-Jazeera, which were indeed harmful, has been replaced by the preacher in Mecca, which poisons the entire Sunni world against Israel–this is something else entirely.

Over the past month, al-Arabiya [Saudi outlet] has been worse than al-Jazeera, backing against normalization with Israel. Saudi influencers and podcasters, who once specialized in luxury and sports cars, are now suddenly cursing Zionism and the Abraham Accords.

The Saudi-Emirati military confrontations in the region, in particular in Yemen, should greatly worry Israel and the United States (and must delight Iran and the Houthis).

What happened?

In short, Israel fell victim to its own historic success. We severely damaged Iran's capabilities, their nuclear project, and all their proxies.

In long, in 2015 the new Saudi King [Salman bin Abdulaziz] came to power and sent Netanyahu a note, congratulating the Israeli Prime Minister on his speech in front of the US Congress against the Obama Nuclear Deal. The Saudis and Israelis saw eye-to-eye here. The seeds of cooperation were born, culminating in the Abraham Accords. The Iran file reached the peak of its interest and the Palestinian file reached its lowest power ever. From 2020, the new and current Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, embarked on a campaign to prepare hearts for peace with Israel.

The date is now late 2023. October 7 changes everything. It both reignited Arab interest in the Palestinian issue and led to an Israel–Iran war on seven fronts. Saudis received from Tehran what it didn't from Tel Aviv, and Netanyahu and [Strategic Minister] Dermer were not particularly eager to pay any price to the Saudis either. “If not, then not—no force,” Netanyahu said in one cabinet meeting.

Now the Saudis not just no longer celebrate them, but are trying to undermine the Abraham Accords foundations of support, from Morocco to the UAE.

Donald Trump should use his influence to halt the toxic campaign against his main international legacy [the Abraham Accords], and make it clear that an attack on the Accords in an attack on him."

🇯🇵⚡️- The Japanese Parliament has been dissolved.

🇺🇸 - Approximate location of the Carrier Strike Group 3, including the USS Abraham Lincoln, as of 10:00 UTC, 23 January.