🇺🇸⚡️- Congress has (supposedly) agreed to a funding deal that will avert a Government shutdown until September, when it is all but guaranteed another shutdown will occur for the midterm elections.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "The current set of options even includes the potential for American forces to carry out raids on sites inside Iran, and it comes in a different context, now that the protests have been brutally quashed, at least for the time being." - NYT.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Israel is pushing the United States to join it in a strike against Iran’s ballistic missile array, and Trump is particularly interested in targeting Iranian leaders who have threatened to assassinate him.

🇮🇷🇹🇷⚡️- Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, has landed in Turkey for meetings with senior Turkish officials and President Erdoğan to discuss regional developments.

The trend of Sunni Muslim powers such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia moving closer to Shiite Iran continues.

🇺🇸🇦🇪🇷🇺⚡- BREAKING: The UAE has provided Russia with the identities of US intelligence officers, the Washington Examiner reports, citing US officials.

Note, late last year, the Financial Times, citing a US intelligence report, reported the Emirati State passed sensitive US defense technology to China.

🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡- Taiwan is preparing to deploy its recently acquired HIMARS to Dongyin (Matsu Island chain) and Xiyu (Penghu Island chain). The deployment would put almost all Chinese military infrastructure on the east coast within Taiwanese firing range.

🇺🇸⚡️- "I am pleased to announce that I am nominating Kevin Warsh to be the CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM. Kevin currently serves as the Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution, and Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a Partner of Stanley Druckenmiller at Duquesne Family Office LLC. Kevin received his A.B. from Stanford University, and J.D. from Harvard Law School. He has conducted extensive research in the field of Economics and Finance. Kevin issued an Independent Report to the Bank of England proposing reforms in the conduct of Monetary Policy in the United Kingdom. Parliament adopted the Report's recommendations. Kevin Warsh became the youngest Fed Governor, ever, at 35, and served as a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2006 until 2011, as the Federal Reserve's Representative to the Group of Twenty (G-20), and as the Board's Emissary to the Emerging and Advanced Economies in Asia. In addition, he was Administrative Governor, managing and overseeing the Board's operations, personnel, and financial performance. Prior to his appointment to the Board, from 2002 until 2006, Kevin served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and Executive Secretary of the White House National Economic Council. Previously, Kevin was a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Department at Morgan Stanley & Co., in New York, serving as Vice President and Executive Director. I have known Kevin for a long period of time, and have no doubt that he will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best. On top of everything else, he is “central casting,” and he will never let you down. Congratulations Kevin! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP" - President Trump via Truth Social

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- Following the visits to China by the Canadian and British Prime Ministers:

"To all world leaders meeting with Xi Jinping: China sells nothing but cheap products and cheap friendships," - House Foreign Affairs Committee.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The next meeting of the Ukrainian, U.S., and Russian delegations was previously scheduled for Sunday, February 1, in Abu Dhabi, but the date and location may change.

According to Zelensky, this is due to developments in US–Iran relations.

He stressed that it is critically important for Ukraine that all parties involved in the preliminary agreements attend the meeting, as feedback on the consultation results is expected," - Kateryna Lisunova of RAZOM for Ukraine.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested last night by the FBI in California and charged with conspiracy to deprive rights.

🇺🇸⚡️- A statement from Don Lemon’s attorney.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- An Iranian drone was operating over the Persian Gulf and flew on the coasts of Qatar likely conducting recon on US assets in the region.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- In the last 2 weeks US surveillance flights of southern Iran have increased to near daily activity with aircraft operating on 11 of the last 14 days.

MQ-4C Triton drones have been seen flying on January 17, 19–22, 27–30 and P-8A Poseidon's on the 23rd and 26th, with the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier group arriving to the middle east arena on the 27th January while trump has repeatedly threatened Iran saying "The next attack will be far worse!".

🇪🇹⚡- BREAKING: The first major city in the Tigray region has fallen to the TPLF-D led separatists.

Tigray separatists from the Angolaba area stormed the town of Bala, after which they began marching towards the town of Korem and the city of Alamata on the A2 Highway. Ethiopian-backed Tigray Interim Administration forces had fled the area south to the city of Kobo.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Today, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control took additional action against Iranian officials responsible for the regime’s brutal crackdown on its own people. Today’s targets include Iran’s Minister of the Interior, who oversees the entity responsible killing thousands of peaceful protestors; a criminal investor who embezzled oil revenue that rightfully belongs to the Iranian people; and two regime-linked digital asset exchanges," - Department of Treasury.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Rather than build a prosperous Iran, the regime has chosen to squander what remains of the nation's oil revenues on nuclear weapons development, missiles, and terrorist proxies around the world.

President Trump stands with the people of Iran and has ordered Treasury to sanction members of the regime.

Treasury will continue to target Iranian networks and corrupt elites that enrich themselves at the expense of the Iranian people. This includes the regime's attempts to exploit digital assets to evade sanctions and finance cybercriminal operations.

Like rats on a sinking ship, the regime is frantically wiring funds stolen from Iranian families to banks and financial institutions around the world.

Rest assured, Treasury will act," - Scott Bessent, Secretary of Treasury.