Links to reports from Middle East Eye and the Cradle; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (Scroll down for IRAN 1-17-26, and up or down for SYRIA and GAZA.) — MCM

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Iran warns attack on Khamenei would mean full-scale war. From Middle East Eye. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday that any attack on the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would be “tantamount to a full-scale war on the Iranian nation,” adding that a U.S. strike on the country would provoke a harsh response. READ MORE . . .

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FROM JAN. 17  ‘We consider Trump a criminal’: Khamenei. From the Cradle. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei accused the U.S. and Israel on Saturday of direct responsibility for the deaths of “several thousand” people during weeks of riots in Iran. READ MORE . . .

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