**** New US Air Defense Operations Cell Opened in Qatar ****

"USCENTCOM and regional partners opened a new coordination cell at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar to enhance integrated air and missile defense on 12 Jan 2026."

Source: https://www.centcom.mil

*** UK Withdraws Ambassador from Iran and Evacuates Embassy in Tehran ***

"Britain has evacuated its ambassador and all embassy staff from Iran. The move comes after the US ordered the evacuation of personnel from its largest Middle East base as Dummkopf Trumpf considers unlawful military action against Tehran."

Besides diplomatic functions, embassies serve as intelligence gathering platforms for spies and signals intercepts. Years ago Conservative Canadian PM Stephen Harper recklessly withdrew recognition of Iran, losing a valuable set of eyes and ears in the country for the West.

*** Anti-Tehran Kurdish Fighters Infiltrating Iran from Iraq ***

"Armed Kurdish separatist groups sought to cross the border into Iran from Iraq in a sign of foreign entities potentially seeking to take advantage of instability after days of crackdown on protests against Tehran.

Turkiye's intelligence agency (MIT) had warned Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) of the Kurdish fighters crossing the frontier in recent days."

For years, Israel has been a quiet supporter of various Kurdish groups in Iraq and Iran because there has been no history of enmity or antisemitism from this agglomeration of tribes which speaks several dialects of Kurdish (e.g. Sorani, Kurmanci, Zaza). Iran and Turkiye both cooperate against Kurdish separatists (PKK and PJAK), hence this tip-off. Other proxies the Mossad employs against the Tehran regime are the cult-like Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) and Sunni Baloch separatists in the north. At least five Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated over the years.