**Livewire** Operation Epic Fury Day Ten: The Latest News From Iran and the Middle East
The military operation entered its tenth day on Monday. Iran’s new leader is settling into the role, but is reportedly already wounded.

The military operation entered its tenth day on Monday. Iran’s new leader is settling into the role, but is reportedly already wounded.

Russia said Tuesday that President Vladimir Putin plans to relay concerns from Gulf Arab leaders to Tehran over Iranian strikes on regional oil infrastructure, as Moscow seeks to use its dialogue with Iran to help ease escalating tensions between countries that include fellow BRICS members Russia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates.

A grieving Russian President Vladimir Putin mourned the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei claiming Sunday it was “a cynical violation of all norms of human morality and international law.”

An unidentified individual detonated an explosive device near a railway station in Moscow early Tuesday morning, killing himself and a police officer. Two other people were injured in the explosion.

Genocidal communist dictator Xi Jinping was among the first to congratulate his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-un, on Monday after the latter was “elected” this weekend to continue leading the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea.

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un participated in an inauguration ceremony for a neighborhood built for families of soldiers killed fighting Ukraine.

Zelensky insisted “no one is clinging to power” and he is ready to hold elections, but no vote without a ceasefire and guarantees.

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers, led by Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), introduced a bill on Tuesday that would designate Russian mercenary groups as foreign terrorist organizations (FTO).

Secretary of State Marco Rubio affirmed in an essay published on Friday that the administration of President Donald Trump would not pursue a new nuclear arms reduction agreement with only Russia, arguing that China’s “rapid and opaque” nuclear buildup made such a deal “obsolete.”

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday said Beijing will resist growing international pressure to join discussions with the United States and Russia for a trilateral nuclear arms pact to replace the expiring New START treaty.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, held a “virtual meeting” on Wednesday in which they celebrated their countries’ close bonds and vowed to expand “high-level exchanges,” trade, and diplomacy.

Trilateral talks resumed but the fundamental issues between Kyiv and Moscow which have prevented progress remain essentially unchanged.

Chinese state media reported on Wednesday morning dictator Xi Jinping held a phone call with President Donald Trump, their first direct conversation since November.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that India has not indicated it will stop buying Russian oil, as claimed by President Donald Trump on Monday.

No attacks on infrastructure overnight, Zelensky said, after Trump made a request to Putin to hold back missiles as severe weather arrives.

Putin was playing a game by inviting his counterpart to Moscow, Zelensky said, making an equally facetious reciprocal invitation to Kyiv.

Syria President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the al-Qaeda offshoot terrorist militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, attended an in-person meeting with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday to discuss boosting Russia’s economic presence in the country.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), held a phone call on Tuesday with President Donald Trump shortly before his departure to Moscow to meet with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that a U.S. security guarantees document for Ukraine is “100% ready” after two days of talks involving representatives from Ukraine, the U.S. and Russia.

Wednesday on CNN’s “The Source,” former National Security Adviser John Bolton said President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace is an “embarrassment to the United States.”

Russian Interior Minister Vladímir Kolokoltsev on Tuesday arrived in Havana, Cuba, for an official visit and encounters with officials of the communist Castro regime.

Russia bombarded Ukraine with more than 300 drones and ballistic and cruise missiles in its latest nighttime attack on the Ukrainian power grid, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday, as Moscow gives no public sign that it’s willing to end the invasion of its neighbor anytime soon.

For decades, the brutal regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro threatened the United States and engaged in narco-terrorism with the assurance that its allies in Russia would have its back.

Putin has received an invitation to take up a place on President Donald Trump’s $1-billion-a-seat Gaza Board of Peace, the Kremlin says.

British Defence Secretary John Healey has ruffled the feathers of the Kremlin after saying that he would like to capture Russian leader Vladimir Putin and put him on trial for war crimes. In the wake of the stunning display of

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said President Donald Trump was “flirting with Greenland and disrupting NATO” to do a favor for his friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russia’s response to the arrest of its ally in Venezuela, narco-terrorist kingpin Nicolás Maduro, has been low-key as of Tuesday afternoon.

On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) stated that “I have no love lost for Maduro, good riddance to him, may he be brought to justice.” But, also argued that, by capturing him, President Donald Trump

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested that the United States should take out Russian leader Vladimir Putin next, following the capture of Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

On Saturday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Velshi,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said that the capture of Nicolas Maduro is “setting this precedent that, if you don’t like a leader, he can just be kidnapped.” And stated that “This is a

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s envoy told New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani that his collectivist method of governing has been “done before,” saying the new leader is “doing a solid job steering the U.S. toward Communism.”

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Fox News Contributor former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated that “Vladimir Putin’s going to need to be hit with a lot bigger stick before he’s prepared to actually

A group of indigenous shamans in Lima, Peru, organized a ritual on Monday to access visions of the future in anticipation of the 2026 new year. These visions, they told assembled media, showed the demise of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and a potential third world war.

Monday, during an interview with FNC host Bret Baier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia would “have to” help finance his country’s rebuilding effort after the war.

The United States is offering Ukraine security guarantees for a period of 15 years as part of a proposed peace plan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday.

President Donald Trump welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Sunday and expressed that he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin is serious about peace.

President Donald Trump holds a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, December 28.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil, on behalf of Nicolás Maduro, thanked Russia for its “valuable support” of the socialist dictator amid the “illegal” actions of the U.S. in the Caribbean.

In-between messages about family and faith, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed the “Godless” and inhuman Russians.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker stated that “the ball is currently in the court of the Russians” on peace talks, and “They keep sending these massive attacks overnight against
