🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper has established Task Force Iron Gate, a team of around 20 civilian and military personnel based in Tampa, Florida, to prevent Iran from using land routes and the Caspian Sea to transport advanced weapons, dual-use technology and sanctioned materials.

The task force will coordinate with U.S. government agencies to restrict these shipments and illicit revenue flows, further tightening Washington’s blockade of Iran.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Ukraine’s Presidential Office chief Kyrylo Budanov has acknowledged violating the country’s state language law by speaking Russian while carrying out official duties and will pay a fine of approximately $75–150.

The incident occurred on November 2, when Budanov addressed protesters and law enforcement officers during violent clashes outside a National Guard facility in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, near Kyiv.

🇺🇸⚡️ — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is facing allegations of potentially violating federal law after using Pentagon personnel and taxpayer-funded resources to produce a politically charged video attacking Democrats and other critics.

The roughly six-minute video, released Thursday as part of a new Defense Department social media campaign, shows Hegseth outside the Pentagon criticizing former President Joe Biden and lawmakers from both parties who have demanded his resignation or dismissal.

Government watchdogs warned Friday that the video may violate federal restrictions on government-funded propaganda, lobbying and partisan political activity, including the Hatch Act.

🇧🇷⚡️ — Flávio Bolsonaro:

I believe neither Lula nor I can say with 100% certainty that either of us was elected president of Brazil.

🇧🇷⚡️ — Flávio Bolsonaro:

I have no proof that there was fraud in the election.

That is precisely why I am not going to challenge it in Brazilian courts, because I have no proof and I never will, because investigating this subject is forbidden.

🇸🇾🇸🇦🇾🇪❌🇾🇪 — Thousands of Syrian troops are preparing to deploy to Saudi Arabia and Yemen as Riyadh seeks international military support to counter the Houthis (Ansarallah) and strengthen Yemen's Saudi-backed PLC government, AFP reports.

Three Yemeni military sources and a defense official said hundreds of Syrian soldiers have already been deployed on both sides of the Saudi-Yemeni border.

Officials from Yemen's PLC presidency and defense ministry confirmed that thousands more troops are expected to arrive to support operations against the Houthis.

🇵🇱⚡️ — GRAPHIC: A video shared online shows the Polish police taking down the attacker, who appears to be fully equipped with tactical gear.

🇾🇪❌🇸🇦 🇾🇪— Ansarallah announces conducting six military operations against KSA and pro-Saudi Yemeni PLC forces with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and UAVs in response to Saudi strikes including strikes against the Al-Hadarah Market in al-Wazi'iyah District, Ta'izz Governorate and residential buildings in Bani Hushaysh District, Sana'a Governorate, both of which caused dozens of civilian casualties:

- Oil tanks and the distillation tower at Saudi Aramco Riyadh Refinery; facilities at Khurais Oil Field; and East-West Crude Oil Pipeline's Pumping Station #8, al-Duwadimi
- King Khalid Int'l Airport, Riyadh
- Saudi Arabian National Guard base in Najran Province, claiming large number of casualties
- "Saudi enemy troop concentrations" reportedly under command of Saudi military officer Faris al-Shammari in eastern al-Jawf Governorate and northern Ma'rib Governorate, PLC-controlled Yemen; claiming large number of casualties in both strikes

🇺🇸⚡️ — 60 Minutes: If it took six months of not insulting the Democrats to get a deal done, do you think you could do it?

Trump: Very easily.

🇵🇱⚡️ — Polish police have identified the Kraków shooter as a Polish national and denied circulating reports that he had an accomplice.