From New York, this is Democracy Now.

We urge the Iranian authorities to halt immediately all forms of violence and repression against peaceful protesters and to restore full access to the Internet and telecommunication services.

As Iran continues its bloody craftdown on anti-government protesters, President Trump announces a 25% tariff on countries that do business with Iran,

like China and India. We'll speak with Professor Valli Nasser, author of Iran's grand strategy,

a political history. He says this time is different for Iran. As Trump threatens Iran, Venezuela, Mexico, Greenland, and more,

will also speak with the renowned historian Alfred McCoy about his new book Cold War on Five Contents,

a global history of empire and espionage. His recent article, ending the American dream by 2029.

But first, as ICE agents terrorized communities nationwide,

activists in Los Angeles are demanding justice for Keith Porter,

a 43-year-old African-American father of two,

shot dead by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year's Eve.

Porter's mother spoke a vigil this weekend.

I just want to touch my baby one last time kiss his face and hold him. I don't have him.

His life was snatched from us, Lord. Please, I just wish you could get justice for my child.

We'll speak with Keith Porter's cousin, a member of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, and with

Pan-African Studies Professor Melina Abdullah.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

The state of Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have sued the federal government in effort to halt an unprecedented surge of federal immigration agents into the state.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison likened the deployment of ICE agents to a federal

invasion.

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