🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iran has placed its air defense forces on its highest alert level.

🇮🇱🇸🇾⚡️- Multiple Israeli airstrikes against Damascus.

🇺🇦⚡️- Ukrainian media reports that commander and chief Valerii Zaluzhny has been dismissed

🇺🇦⚡️- The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has denied Zaluzhny’s dismissal.

🇺🇸⚡️- A protester interrupted Nikki Haley at a campaign event and began shouting “No new wars! I’m done with the military industrial complex- we’re sick of the wars, we want America First!”

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: An all-senators briefing on the Middle East has been requested in the U.S. Congress

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken: The response to the drone attack in Jordan "could be multi-leveled, come in stages and be sustained over time"

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Sky News reports that Joe Biden will authorize military action in the Middle East sometime tonight.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - "It is likely to be one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency."

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: The drone that killed 3 American soldiers was an Iranian-made Shahed model – Al Jazeera

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- American officials are confirming an Iranian-made Shahed FPV drone was responsible for striking the US base that killed 3 troops.

However, this may very well be part of the media spin that will be used to justify military action against Iran.

🇺🇸 ❌️ 🇮🇷 The president's options could range anywhere from targeting Iranian forces outside to even inside Iran, or opting for a more cautious retaliatory attack solely against the Iran-backed militants responsible, experts say.

🔶️ Biden met with Austin and other members of his national security team in the White House Situation Room on Monday morning to discuss the latest developments regarding the attack, the White House said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/austin-vows-all-necessary-actions-after-us-troop-deaths-2024-01-29/

https://archive.ph/1UCIf

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Preliminary reports of airstrikes at the Syria-Iraq border.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡️- Explosions in Saada, Yemen.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Biden is currently in a meeting with top military leadership.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Biden has apparently authorized military action in the Middle East, likely against Iranian proxy groups.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- An American KC-135 Stratotanker is currently airborne above northern Iraq, clearly in an usual pattern from regular sorties.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated "We will deal with Iran at the time and in the way we choose."

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stated that Israeli troops will "very soon go into action" on the Lebanese border.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- American aircraft heard over Conico and Al-Omari in eastern Syria.