🇮🇷⚡️ — As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, according to TIME Magazine, citing two senior officials of the Iranian Ministry of Health.

🇮🇷🌐📉 — Iran has been under a full internet blackout for more than 400 hours now.

🇬🇱🇩🇰⚡️ — All of Nuuk experienced a brief overnight power outage caused by a transmission line fault.

➡️ There was no foul play, and electricity was restored within hours.

🇸🇾🇸🇾⚡️ — Human Rights Watch says both the Syrian government and the SDF are committing abuses amid the escalation in northeast Syria.

➡️ They are calling on both parties to protect civilians, stop using water and electricity as weapons, allow aid access to camps, and investigate alleged extrajudicial killings and detentions.

➡️ The organization says both sides appear to have carried out abuses during the current escalation that violate international law.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — A police car casually towing a Russian Geran-2 drone down a road in the Kyiv region.

🇮🇱🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — NEW: Senior IDF officials told CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper that any U.S. strike on Iran should hit defined military targets as well as government sites, according to Israeli Channel 13.

➡️ Israel’s view is that, alongside attacks on regime institutions meant to encourage regime change, U.S. forces should also target Iran’s surface-to-surface missile capabilities.

🇬🇧🇦🇪🇯🇴🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — The UK, the UAE, and Jordan will provide logistical and intelligence support to the U.S. Army in the event of an attack on Iran, according to Israel Hayom.

🇱🇹🇵🇱🇺🇦⚡️ — Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda, Polish President Karol Nawrocki, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived for the 163rd January Uprising Commemoration in Vilnius.

🇺🇸🇹🇼⚡️ — 40-year-old American climber Alex Honnold has completed a rope-free ascent of Taipei 101 in Taiwan without any safety equipment.

➡️ He reached the top of the 1,667-foot tower in 1 hour, 31 minutes, and 35 seconds.

➡️ Taipei 101 is the 11th tallest building in the world.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — Israeli warplanes have conducted airstrikes on the outskirts of Al-Nabi Shayth in the Beqaa Valley, eastern Lebanon.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧🇱🇧 — The IDF says the airstrikes on the outskirts of Kherbet Selem in southern Lebanon were used as a site for weapons manufacturing by Hezbollah.

➡️ The strikes in the Beqaa Valley struck Hezbollah “military infrastructure sites.”

🇮🇷⚡️ — Two Iranian officials told NYT that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the Supreme National Security Council on Friday, Jan. 9, to suppress the protests "by any means necessary."

➡️ Security forces were deployed with "orders to shoot to kill and to show no mercy."