"A US intervention in Iran is imminent". The Farnesina invites Italians to leave the country

Two European sources told Reuters that “an American attack on Iran is likely in the next 24 hours”.The Daily Mail exclusively revealed that the Trump administration received a list of high value military targets, while the president is considering an attack on Iran. United Against Nuclear Iran, a Washington-based nonprofit, compiled a dossier and delivered it to White House officials in the early hours of Monday, ahead of key security meetings.

The document reveals the exact coordinates of the headquarters Thar-Allah of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the nerve center of the repression. The target list includes four key sub-headquarters that oversee different regions of the capital: the Quds sub-headquarters, which oversees crackdown operations in the north and northwest of Tehran, the Fath sub-headquarters in the southwest, the Nasr sub-headquarters in the northeast, and the Ghadr sub-headquarters, which oversees the southeast and central Tehran.

By identifying these specific sites and divisions, the US military would now have an idea of ​​the IRGC’s capabilities to coordinate the killing of its own citizens, an atrocity that has angered the US president and prompted him to elaborate options for intervening in support of protesters.

Iran, “ready to respond decisively”

Iran is ready to answer “decisively” to its enemies, Israel and the United States. The commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared this, accusing their leaders of being behind the protests that have engulfed the Islamic Republic.

The Guards are “at peak readiness to respond decisively to the enemy’s miscalculation,” the commander said Mohammad Pakpour in a statement quoted by state television, accusing US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being the “killers of Iranian youth”.

The Farnesina invites Italians to leave the country

“Now let’s see the evolution of the situation. I’m going to the Farnesina to talk about the guarantees of our fellow citizens who are there. The first thing we do in moments of crisis” is to safeguard “the safety of our fellow citizens. We follow minute by minute”. The Foreign Minister said it, Antonio Tajani responding to journalists in the Senate.

The Farnesina, we learn from a note from the Farnesina, confirms theindication to leave Iran to Italian citizens who can do so.

US and UK withdraw soldiers from US base in Qatar

Il United Kingdomis withdrawing thepersonal da una US military base in Qatar. This was announced by Sky News. THE’Iranhas repeatedly said he will adoptretaliation contro le US military basesin the region in case ofAmerican attack. Gli United Statesthey also started to withdraw part of thepersonal dalla Al Udeid air basemanaged byUnited Statesin Qatarla largest American basein the region.

Il Qatarconfirmed the departure of part of thepersonal dalla baseline of Al-Udeidbecause of the “current regional tensions“, after thatWashingtonhe threatened tointervene in Iranshaken by over two weeks ofanti-government protests e ferocious repression. The Gulf State “continues to take all necessary measures to ensure thesafetyof hiscitizens and residentsincluding measures relating to the protection ofcritical infrastructures e delle military installations“the authorities said in a statement.

The Pasdaran in the homes of the killed protesters

Security forces in plain clothes and members of the Revolutionary Guards Iranians targeted the homes of the families of those killed in recent ones protests in the eastern part of Tehran. According to sources from the London-based opposition head, the officers carried out intimidating raids, using weapons, insulting and ransacking homes. It would have been for families ordered to collect the bodies of people killed before dawn and to carry out burials quickly and privately, otherwise their loved ones will be buried in mass graves. The families were also told that they would be charged for using live ammunition.

Iran has summoned the Italian ambassador to Tehran

“The reaction is that today they summoned our ambassador to Tehran“. The Foreign Minister says so, Antonio Tajaniconversing in the Senate with journalists who asked him what the outcome of the meeting was, which took place yesterday at the Farnesina with the Iranian ambassador called for a conversation to express Italy’s concerns and condemnation of what is happening in Iran with the repression of the civilian protest.

“Italian newspapers are free to say what they want. The images on TV are incontrovertible about what is happening in Iran. There must be a reason if the whole world is outraged” he replies regarding the recommendations that Tehran are arriving in Italy to the exiles, according to what they themselves have reported.

Remote clash between Iran and the United States

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Aziz Nafizardeh said his countrywill attack American basesin the region if the United States launches an offensive against thePersian nation. “Iran will attack US bases if it is attacked,” the defense minister said, according to local Mehr news agency.

He stated that “all US bases and military bases of other countries in the region assisting the United States in attacks against theIranian soilwill be consideredlegitimate objectives“. “The Iranian response will bepainful for enemies” if Iran is attacked, the military official said.

The death toll and massacre in Iran

Le cifre relative alle victims of the protestsongoing in Iran remain extremely variable and not officially confirmed. They would be at leastthree thousand people died durante le protests that are shaking Iranand among them there are hundreds of members of the security forces as reported yesterday to New York Times from a source in the Tehran Ministry of Health. There continues to be no official or independent assessment of the violence and the figures circulating in the media differ. For example, London-based media Iran International talks about at least12,000 people killedin what he calls “the largest massacre in the contemporary history of Iran”, concentrated largely on the nights of January 8 and 9. Furthermore, yesterday CBS cited unspecified internal sources according to which the dead were among the12 thousand and 20 thousand. The victims also included members of the security forces, he added the official, blaming “terrorists” to be responsible for the deaths. The discrepancy between the budgets highlights the difficulty of obtainingindependent dataon violence.

Reza Pahlavi’s appeal to the army

In this context of violence,Reza Pahlavison of the last Shah of Persia, launched a direct appeal toIranian armyso that it takes sides to protect thecitizen demonstratorscalling it thenational armyand not that of the regime. Pahlavi urged the military to join their compatriots as soon as possible. He also referred to international support, citing the message from the President of the United States,Donald Trumpwho promised thathelp is on the way.

Trump’s speech on Truth

Yesterday Donald Trump, through a post on Truth, encouraged the “Iranian patriots”to continue protesting and documenting the names of murderers and abusers, ensuring that they “will pay a high price”. The President also announced the cancellation of meetings with Iranian officials until thekilling of protesters.