🇺🇸🇮🇷🇹🇷 - Update: Esmail Baghaei, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, denies the Fars News report that US-Iran talks are scheduled in Turkey in the coming days. Baghaei asserts no negotiations are currently planned.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian forces have also begun entering the countryside of Ayn al-Arab, northern Syria, taking positions from the SDF.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to arrive in Israel tomorrow.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Israel carried out 87 airstrikes on Lebanon in January 2026, the highest since the 27th November 2024 Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire.

Source: Alma Research Center, Israeli-based Think Tank.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇹🇷 - Despite the Iranian Foreign Ministry denying possible US-Iran talks, Axios now reports Iran's Abbas Araghchi is set to meet US Envoy Steve Witkoff in Istanbul on Friday.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇹🇷 - Israeli Channel 12 and Channel 15 have both reported a meeting on Friday will take place between Witkoff and Araghchi in Istanbul.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: Hezbollah-affiliate al-Mayadeen, citing Iran's Ministry of Intelligence, confirms US-Iran negotiations, stating they are taking place "within the framework of [Iran's] national interests."

Al-Mayadeen reports the Iranian Supreme National Security Council has approved the talks.

🇺🇸⚡️- A U.S. intelligence official filed a complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. The complaint is so highly classified that it has been stored in a safe in Gabbard’s office.

Officials stated that the “Disclosure of its contents could cause 'grave damage to national security,” as well as “It also implicates another federal agency beyond Gabbard’s,”

Notably, the complaint was filed in May, and the whistleblower’s lawyer has not even had access to the information in it. The delay in sending the complaint to Congress is another strange component of this case.

“The inspector general is generally required to assess whether the complaint is credible within two weeks of receiving it, and share it with lawmakers within another week if it determines it is credible.” - WSJ.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- “The recent sedition was orchestrated by Zionists & the US. I was informed through a certain channel that the CIA & Mossad deployed all of their resources into the field! Nevertheless, they were defeated. The sedition's plan was developed abroad, and it was managed from abroad.” - Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

🇺🇸⚡️- “This is not true and is one of the most disgusting cases of clickbait I have ever seen.

There was absolutely NO wrongdoing by DNI Gabbard, a fact that [the] Wall Street Journal conveniently buried 13 paragraphs down. Even the Biden-era Intelligence Community Inspector General came to this conclusion, determining that the Whistleblower’s allegations against DNI Gabbard “did not appear credible.”

This is a classic case of a politically motivated individual weaponizing their position in the Intelligence Community, submitting a baseless complaint and then burying it in highly classified information to create 1) false intrigue, 2) a manufactured narrative, and 3) conditions which make it substantially more difficult to produce "security guidance" for transmittal to Congress.

Even so, and contrary to the Wall Street Journal's false reporting, there was no delay in producing the "security guidance" from DNI Gabbard, AND the Whistleblower's complaint is with the Congressional Intelligence Committees for review.

Director Gabbard has always and will continue to support Whistleblower's and their right, under the law, to submit complaints to Congress, even if they are completely baseless like this one.” - Director of National Intelligence Press Secretary Olivia Coleman.

🇺🇸⚡️- Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts is now imposing Non Disclosure Agreements on clerks and staff at the Court.

This comes after high level leaks from the Supreme Court in the last few years including the Dobb's decision overturning Roe v Wade.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- President Trump announces a new trade deal with India and a reduction of tariffs after PM Modi agreed to stop buying Russian oil.

🇺🇸⚡️- New York Governor Kathy Hochul announces police will no longer cooperate with ICE/Border Patrol officers.

New York stands to lose another electoral vote in the 2030 census unless illegals are counted.

🇺🇸⚡️- Chuck Schumer says the national voter ID bill is "dead on arrival" in the Senate comparing it to Jim Crow.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Yoram Hazony's National Conservatism Conference will be held in Jerusalem this summer.

🇺🇸⚡️- 10 years ago today, Jeb Bush while campaigning for President asked an audience in New Hampshire to "please clap".

🇻🇦⚡️- The Society of Saint Pius X has announced they will consecrate bishops without Vatican approval.

🇺🇸⚡️- Texas Democrat Collin Allred has endorsed Jasmine Crockett in the Texas Senate primary.