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President Trump was briefed on new options for military strikes in Iran, a senior U.S. official confirmed Sunday. Mr. Trump appeared to lay out his red line for action on Friday when he warned that if the Iranian government began "killing people like they have in the past, we would get involved." "We'll be hitting them very hard where it hurts," he said at the White House. "And that doesn't mean boots on the ground, but it means hitting them very, very hard where it hurts." On social media, Mr. Trump offered his support for the protesters, saying that "Iran...

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President Donald Trump is set to be briefed by top aides this week as he plots out the level of his response to the Iranian regime's brutal crackdown against citizen-led protests. Trump's top military and diplomatic staffers, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Dan Caine, are anticipated to be present at the meeting, per the Wall Street Journal. The meeting comes as Trump is understood to be considering further US involvement in the region, but no final decisions are expected to emerge until after Tuesday's scheduled meeting. Putting U.S. troops'...

Senior IRGC leaders getting wacked. IRGC planning to preemptively attack Israel. Col. Imahdi Rahimi (gas leak;-) now admitted he was killed) Com. Reza Qasab (droned) Hundreds of leaders rubbed out (or defected? or fled?) Footage of mob beating IRGC man, taking weapons. Mossad has openly encouraged people to keep going, and assured that they are already active in the field. Pahlavi says to have universal general strike. And so on and so forth for 50 minutes of footage and narrating. Transcript linked below video.

EXCLUSIVE Mass killings reported as security forces use live fire on Iran protesters. Jan 11, 2026 Iran's security forces are using lethal force against protesters nationwide, informed sources told Iran International, with preliminary estimates pointing to mass casualties as a sweeping crackdown unfolds amid a near-total internet shutdown. Footage sent to Iran International from Kahrizak, south of Tehran, shows several dead bodies in body bags. According to eyewitness accounts accompanying the videos, dozens of bodies are visible at the site, with additional bodies reportedly located in another nearby industrial shed. Videos earlier sent to Iran International from Fardis, Karaj, and...

**Welcome back to Tusi TV. This is your global news channel, and I’m Amaya Tusi.** Three of Iran’s largest cities—Tehran, Shiraz, and Mashhad—have now fallen into the hands of anti-Islamic Republic Iranians. The IRGC forces have retreated from these major urban centers. We are also receiving reports that Karaj is very close to collapse amid fierce clashes between IRGC military units and the Iranian people. More video updates are coming in constantly, and in just a few minutes we will be joined by Andrew Galilei, Policy Director of the National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI), representing the official opposition...

After a night with lots of bloodshed, it appears that the IRGC military are backing down. The Iranian demonstrators have taken over the streets in major cities again.

Mahyar Tousi, host of Tousi TV, delivered a live stream update on the escalating situation in Iran. He reported that the Islamic Republic has effectively declared war on its own citizens by deploying official IRGC military forces after withdrawing police and Basij units from the streets. This shift followed massive protests across the country, with millions responding to calls from Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi to take to the streets. Tousi claimed exclusive direct access to sources inside Iran despite a nationwide shutdown of internet, mobile data, and phone lines (with some limited access via Starlink). He described widespread demonstrations in...

Communications networks go dark right after start of Tehran protests urged on by exiled crown prince; protesters chant ‘death to the dictator’ and ‘death to the Islamic Republic’. Thousands of people in Iran’s capital shouted from their homes and rallied in the street Thursday night after a call by the country’s exiled crown prince for a mass demonstration, witnesses said, a new escalation in the protests that have spread nationwide across the Islamic Republic. Internet access and telephone lines in Iran cut out immediately after the protests began. The protest represented the first test of whether the Iranian public could...

Interview with Mahyar Tousi. Some important and worrying news: The regime has been able to shut down the Internet in Iran. Only Starlink open for posting videos and other news. The police has been retracted from the streets. Instead the regime has sent out the military. Very large demonstrations expected tonight. According to M Tousi on the few videos that now have reached the West lots of shooting.

Jahvijaa Reza Pahlavi, Maata Khamenei, etc. Lots of videos. Day 10 and IRGC can't get a handle on it. Khamenei might go to Moscow with his family and entourage. Transcript linked below video.

No text, but Tousi TV reports: This is the 10th day of the protests against the Islamic dictatorship. Police stations have been taken over by opposition in Ishafan with police joining the demostrators. The revolutionary guards (IRGC) have been evicted from the city of Ilan (north-western Iran). Lots of people still out on the streets in Teheran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmWG4mQH_xg

For over two decades, Venezuela has served as a critical outpost for Hezbollah in the Western Hemisphere, with reports detailing the group's entrenchment on Margarita Island and ties to the former regimes of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro. U.S. intelligence assessments and media investigations describe this presence as evolving from fundraising networks among the Lebanese diaspora in the 1980s to sophisticated operations involving training, smuggling, and financial schemes by the 2000s. Margarita Island, once a bustling tourist spot, has been highlighted as a primary hub, surpassing even the Tri-Border Area in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay for Hezbollah's regional activities. Training...

All week, Iranians have been mounting massive and widespread street protests. … These demonstrations have been far more consequential than previous such revolts. ... Even more remarkably, a number of bases for the fearsome Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Basij militia reportedly fell into the hands of protesters, with one Basij operative killed after demonstrators threw stones in Kuhdasht, a city in western Iran. At time of writing, this insurrection is still escalating. Although at least four protesters have been killed, the feared bloodbath by security forces hasn’t yet materialized. ... [If] this revolt ... succeed[s], this ... would...

Major cities are erupting. IRGC are uncharacteristically restrained, and even retreating in some cities. Theory that they're scared that Israel and/or the US might intervene if they are overly violent. Other theory that they're short-handed and don't have the man-power, due to IRGC members defecting to Reza's camp. They have thus far only killed two people. In the middle of a water shortage, they tried using a water cannon, and nobody ran. They stood their ground, and maybe the pressure was insufficient to bowl over a crowd, which has the shrill voices of women prominent in their chanting. International Community...

300% inflation, Rial collapsed. Two days of mass demos, forbidden chants supporting Reza Pahlavi and calling death to Ali Khamenei, both of which are grounds for summary execution. Anti-Palestinian chants. Reza Shah RIP chants. IRGC shorthanded, outsourcing to Hizbollah, etc., to control streets, but crowds are gaining ground. Very dramatic footage at 4:52, reminiscent of tank man in Tiananmen Sq. in '89. General strike, including government workers. Transcript linked below video.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian just made a stunning admission that reveals the Islamic Republic's desperate strategic position. In an interview posted to Supreme Leader Khamenei's official website, Pezeshkian declared Iran is in a "full-scale war" with the United States, Israel, and Europe—a public acknowledgment of defeat that represents a geopolitical earthquake for the Middle East. This declaration comes six months after Operation Rising Lion, the devastating 12-day June 2025 conflict that killed 1,100 Iranians including Iran's entire military high command. Israeli F-35 stealth fighters and US B-2 bombers systematically destroyed Iran's nuclear facilities at Fordow and Natanz, eliminated IRGC Commander...

Iran is stirring the pot, muddying the waters, and somehow has enough IRGC to do that, while being short-handed in Iran. Per Mahyar, once the water is muddy, they can crack down on the uprising in their own boarders, and be very ungentle about it.

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U.S. Frustrated By Elusive Justice Served to USS Cole Plotters May 04, 2008 It's been called "the forgotten attack" but it's one of the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history. Eight years after the USS Cole was attacked by a motorboat packed with explosives, all of the six men convicted of the strike have escaped from prison, or been freed by Yemeni officials. Seventeen sailors were killed and 40 more wounded in the strike, blamed on Usama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. Jamal al-Badawi, who helped organize the Cole plot, has reportedly escaped from Yemeni prisons twice. He is supposedly...