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Okay. It's Thursday, 30 January. Welcome to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. Let's get briefed.

We'll start things off today with reports that Iran has ordered its proxy forces across the Middle East to lay low as the regime grows increasingly concerned about the threat it faces following Donald Trump's return to the White House.

Later in the show, the new rebel-led government in Syria is making major demands of Russia,

calling for reparations to, quote, rebuild trust after a high-stakes meeting between Damascus's new leadership and a Moscow delegation. It kind of makes you wonder what the price tag is

for trust in that relationship.

Plus, a Massachusetts man is in custody now after allegedly threatening to assassinate top Republicans,

including newly confirmed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

And in today's back of the brief, the new

U.S. administration makes another major move on immigration, revoking temporary protected status

for over 600,000 Venezuelan migrants. But first, today's BDB spotlight. We'll begin in Iran where a pervasive sense of paranoia is reportedly gripping the country due to Donald Trump's return to the White House.

The leaders of Iran's Islamic regime have given orders to their regional proxy forces to exercise restraint and tread carefully when it comes to the U.S., fearing that

angering President Trump could spark a crisis in the Middle East that threatens the longevity

of their weakened regime. Specifically, Iranian officials have told their remaining militias

to lay low and avoid any provocations that could escalate regional tensions.

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