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Iran's foreign-backed riots

Iran's president has strongly condemned the United States and Israel for orchestrating the recent deadly riots in Iran. Masoud Pezeshkian said the US and Israel incited the riots as a joint project by exploiting conditions that have been imposed on the Iranian nation. Pezeshkian was speaking in a meeting with Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein in Tehran. He said, like Israel itself, the regime’s proxies committed the highest degree of violence and crimes against the Iranian nation. Pezeshkian stressed that US President Donald Trump’s outspoken support for rioters revealed the nature of this plot and sedition without any doubt. Citing the destabilizing and destructive role of the US and Israel in the region, Iran's president said they seek to sow discord among Islamic countries. He stressed that if the Islamic Ummah stands united, no power will be able to threaten it. For his part, Hussein said Iraq regards Iran’s security as its own and considers any harm to it unacceptable. Before meeting with Iran's president, the Iraqi foreign minister had held meetings with his Iranian counterpart, as well as the parliament speaker and secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.

US-EU tensions over Greenland

The European Union says it is preparing a major package of financial countermeasures against the US in response to Washington’s threats against the bloc over Greenland. The plan, if approved, would impose more than 100 billion dollars in tariffs on US firms or restrict American companies' access to the bloc's market. EU leaders said the tariff package will come into effect automatically if there is no agreement with the US after it threatened to impose tariffs on European allies over Greenland. EU diplomats later said the bloc will wait until February 1st before implementing retaliatory measures, if the US imposes tariffs then. Meanwhile, European Council President Antonio Costa said EU leaders will convene for an extraordinary meeting in the coming days to discuss Trump's tariff threat. President of the European Commission, Ursula von Der Leyen, also said for her part that the bloc stands firm in its commitment to uphold the sovereignty of Greenland and Denmark. She added that EU countries will always protect their strategic, economic, and security interests.

US anti-ICE protests

The US war department has ordered approximately 15-hundred active-duty soldiers to prepare for possible deployment in the state of Minnesota. According to US media, the decision comes as tensions grow in Minnesota’s biggest city, Minneapolis, over the killing of a woman by an immigration agent. The Army units have been placed on prepare-to-deploy orders in case violence in the Midwestern state escalates. The order followed President Donald Trump’s threat last week to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy the military in the crisis-hit city. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called the prospect of a military deployment a "shocking step," warning it would pour fuel on the fire. Increasingly tense confrontations between residents and federal officers erupted in Minneapolis after Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was fatally shot behind the wheel of her car on January 7th.

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