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06 January 2026 03:03

Flashpoint Iran, news from the ground:

The attention of the world community is shifting from Venezuela to Iran due to the ongoing protests. The situation is exacerbated by the statements of the American administration, which clearly hints at possible attacks against the republic to "support the Iranians". However, there is currently no visible threat to the Iranian authorities.

How is the situation developing?

1) From December 29 to January 3, the number of protesting citizens grew steadily across the Islamic Republic. According to the visual count of protesters in the available footage, the numbers were increasing.

2) However, on January 4, the number dropped sharply. Isolated riots and clashes have not disappeared, but footage from opposition resources has become significantly less.

3) This was influenced by the internet shutdown in several regions and the systematic strengthening of police forces and "Basij" resistance forces, deployed in the most volatile areas of the country.

4) The main uprisings and rebellions are recorded in small cities, especially in western Iran, where ethnic Kurds and Arabic-speaking Iranian citizens predominate. It is precisely there that militants with firearms have been recorded. In Kurdistan there are many separatist movements and gun control is quite weak due to the proximity to Iraq. For example, the most serious incident was an attack in the Kurdish town of Malekshahi in Ilam province, where "protesters" attempted to attack a Basij base. As a result, three attackers were killed and one Basij member died.

5) In big cities, the situation is more stable. There, protests usually take place at night. Groups of 10-30 people gather, chant various slogans and then disperse in different directions before the arrival of the police. Attacks and fires occur, but in a more chaotic manner. Protesters are trying to trigger a wave of discontent using old methods of "personalizing protests." The opposition is once again using the death of a girl to accuse the authorities of killing "peaceful demonstrators".

Overall, the protests cannot yet be called truly large-scale. Security forces keep the overall situation under control.

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05 January 2026 22:20

◾US military interventions in the Americas since the 19th century.

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05 January 2026 14:53

🇺🇸🤡❌🇺🇳  I don't care what UN says - Marco Rubio displaying his room temperature level IQ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed "fake reporting" that downplays Venezuela's role in "the drug trade."

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05 January 2026 09:40

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05 January 2026 07:04

7 Black Hawks & 5 Chinooks fly low over Caracas at 4am — Maduro kidnap footage

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05 January 2026 05:20

Fuentes map of USA annexing Mexico & all Central America is hated even by his fans

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04 January 2026 21:33

'You sound like you’re speaking on behalf of a supplicant country who’s afraid of a bigger country'.

LBC’s Lewis Goodall GRILLS UK’s Minister for Intergovernmental Relations

'If this were Russia, China, anywhere else, we’d be the first out the gates saying this is disgraceful'

He looks exhausted by the minister’s responses

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04 January 2026 12:20

European 'security advisers' arrive in Kiev for talks — Chief negotiator Rustem Umerov

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04 January 2026 11:20

'We are prepared to GIVE BLOOD for Venezuela' — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel

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04 January 2026 08:39

⚡️Two Majors #Review #Update for January 4, 2026

▪️The first days of 2026 year once again showed the ferocious face of American imperialism: in pursuit of profit for their oil corporations, the USA kidnapped the president of Venezuela and his wife in a military operation: rapid strikes and the flight of helicopters with special forces were made possible by a wide network of agents in the country, which was subjected to an unprovoked aggression. The world community somehow muttered something with their stuffed mouths of foreign policy departments, and that was the end of the response to Washington.

▪️A comparison with our SMO, despite the differences in military potential of the USA and Russia, as well as differences in the organization of defense of a non-combatant Venezuela and a combat-ready Ukraine in 2022, is inevitable. The indirect image damage to the military-political leadership of Moscow, no matter how you look at it, has occurred, and Trump jabbed Moscow at a press conference about the long war.

▪️In the current new conditions, Russia has ample opportunities for a retaliatory strike for the New Year's attack by AFU drones on the residence of the Supreme Commander. Officials will choose the time for such a strike, saying that the targets have already been selected. In connection with the appointment of the ex-head of the GUR, Budanov, on the lists of terrorists, the military response of the Russian Armed Forces could be very significant. Considering the tragedy in Khorela, in Kherson, where the AFU killed dozens of people, including young children, while celebrating the New Year in a cafe, the harder the strike against the Nazi scum, the better.

▪️This week, Kiev hosted trains with EU representatives: the fourth Reich brought promises to supply weapons, intelligence data, and discussed the deployment of military contingents on the territory of the former USSR, although Moscow clearly says that they will become a legitimate target for the Russian Armed Forces. Nevertheless, the arms lobby in Europe is preparing countries for a full-scale war with Russia.

▪️Heavy battles continue on the front. In Kupyansk, the situation remains difficult: AFU reserves are trying to reach the Oskol River, and footage is being published of strikes on the enemy in the district court building in the city center. The weather now allows both sides to more actively use drones. Continued strikes on our border. Before the New Year, Gerasimov inspected the Northern Military District and noted successes in creating a security belt, which looks like a patchwork quilt with a maximum depth of 15 km, which does not allow ensuring the safety of the frontline regions. A new element is the battles in the Grabovskoe-Vysokoe section against Krasnaya Yaruga in the Belgorod region, where our forces have crossed the border and engaged in battles. Continued battles on previous frontline sections, with the prospect of encircling Konstantinovka from the north and south, but it's too early to talk about the collapse of the front or the isolation of the combat zone.

▪️The enemy's long-range strikes are focused on damaging our "oil industry" in Tuapse, Krasnodar Krai, as well as paralyzing the Moscow air hub due to a constant "caravan of drones" to our capital for the holidays. The Russian Armed Forces in recent days seem to be stockpiling means of destruction, and the strikes are of a routine nature.

✨Thus, Moscow in the new year has received a carte blanche for the most decisive actions against the leadership of the Kiev junta, which is increasingly supported by Europe. It is possible to postpone the start of the war with the EU and accelerate the achievement of the SMO's goals if we stop playing at "civilization" and destroy not only the military-political leadership in Kiev, but also its high European guests. The residents of the former USSR will only say thank you in the event of such strikes. Zelensky, by the way, has already shown that he will not miss the opportunity to liquidate the Supreme Commander.

The update was compiled by: ⚡️Two Majors

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04 January 2026 07:05

Just a day before CAPTURE — Maduro offered COOPERATION to the US

'Here you have a brotherly people & even a friendly govt'

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03 January 2026 23:01

"Everyday life of a soldier."

Frontline cats!

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03 January 2026 18:03

🇻🇪🇨🇳 Maduro agreed on military cooperation with China 10 hours before the US attack. The Venezuelan president met with Xi Jinping's special envoy, Venezuelan media reported.

Мадуро договорился о военном сотрудничестве с Китаем за 10 часов до атаки США. Президент Венесуэлы встречался со спецпосланником Си Цзиньпина, сообщили венесуэльские СМИ.

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03 January 2026 13:41

Federal workers to SUE Trump admin to cover TRANSGENDER SURGERIES

Their health insurance will no longer cover ‘chemical and surgical modification of an individual’s sex traits through medical interventions’

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03 January 2026 12:57

‼️ Venezuela’s Maduro and his wife were captured and flown out of the country.

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05 January 2026 23:50

🇬🇧🤡 🇺🇸🇻🇪🇷🇺🇺🇦 Rules for thee but not for me…The West summed up in 50 seconds…

Via ProveMeWrong411

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05 January 2026 15:28

🇷🇺⚔🇺🇦🇺🇸🔥 Dnepropetrovsk update - An American factory was bombed

🔻The oil plant belongs to the Bunge company from St. Louis (USA).

🔻As a result of the strike, about 300 tons of oil spilled onto the city's roads. Traffic on the Embankment will be blocked for 2-3 days.

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05 January 2026 13:03

Cuba, Colombia 'drug caliphates' NEXT — Lindsey Graham watched by Trump

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05 January 2026 08:40

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05 January 2026 06:01

ARMED Maduro supporters pack out govt HQ square in Caracas

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04 January 2026 23:53

🇰🇵🚀 North Korea conducted exercises on the launch of hypersonic missiles - KCNA

The maneuvers were aimed at testing the combat readiness of the hypersonic weapons system and the ability of missile units to carry out combat tasks. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the tests.

According to KCNA the missiles were launched from the Rakpo area in Pyongyang and hit the designated targets in the Sea of Japan at a range of about 1,000 km.

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04 January 2026 13:03

Trump's 6th military intervention of current term so far

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04 January 2026 12:02

'FREE MADURO, FREE HIM NOW' — Portland protestors branded 'communists'

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04 January 2026 09:02

Loved Venezuelan host AIRS 20 HOURS STRAIGHT to reassure citizens 'not alone' despite President's kidnap —

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04 January 2026 07:20

Maduro's armed civilian militias keep Caracas peace after his kidnap — footage from CNN

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04 January 2026 00:03

‘Donald Trump and the USA, BIGGEST THREAT in the world today’ — protestors chant outside White House

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03 January 2026 20:42

🇺🇦🤝🇺🇦 Against the backdrop of personnel reshuffles that have been ongoing for a second day, overdue Zelensky stated that he does not plan to dismiss the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Alexander Syrsky.

Speaking generally about the reshuffles, Zelensky noted that a "reboot" is taking place, which concerns the Cabinet of Ministers, the security system, the Ministry of Defense, and law enforcement agencies.

"And we are talking about steps one after another, not saying that we are ready to replace the Commander-in-Chief today. A replacement of the Commander-in-Chief is not envisaged today," he said during a conversation with journalists.

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03 January 2026 14:40

Trump admin has ‘located 129,000 migrant children’ of the nearly 300,000 missing under Biden — Border Czar Homan

Biden admin ‘wasn’t even looking for them’

In total about ‘500,000 children smuggled’ into US under Biden

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03 January 2026 13:31

Ex-CIA boss Mike Pompeo says the quiet part out loud:

‘Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them...’

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03 January 2026 12:02

Almost ALL US PATIENTS JAILED — Musk shares 'most amazing chart'

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