AFP/Reuters:

"...Satellite imaging company Planet Labs has said it will indefinitely withhold visuals of Iran and the ⁠region of conflict in the Middle East to comply with a request from United States President Donald Trump’s administration.

The US company announced the decision in an email to customers on Saturday, with news agencies quoting it as saying the government had asked satellite imagery providers ⁠to impose an “indefinite withhold of imagery”...."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/5/us-satellite-firm-planet-labs-announces-blackout-on-war-on-iran-images

#RemoteImaging #satellites #war #IranWar #Iran #PlanetLabs

US satellite firm Planet Labs announces blackout on war on Iran images

Company says move amid US-Israel war on Iran comes after a request from the US government.

Al Jazeera
*** Reading between the lines, the US doesn't want other people (and particularly, journalists), to have access to any "ground truth". i.e. satellite image of bombed out schools, US aircraft, possible US incursions into Iran (i.e. setting up at a remote abandoned airbase), etc. etc. -- or anything that might show casualties or damage to civilians. Or, if they drop a nuke, the aftermath.

For example, the Trump Regime is currently claiming the US blew up its own aircraft because they were "bogged down" in sand.

The Iranian Regime is distributing video showing US planes which look to be on solid ground/either a dirt road or hardpack or that abandoned air base.

Iran is claiming the rescue failed.

The US is claiming the rescue succeeded, but stories ALSO include a story of the CIA seeding stories in Iran of the rescue succeeding to try to convince the Iranians to stop looking.

Unclear who, if anyone, to believe in this whole matter. It's all propaganda, all the time, and US/western media is "SO-and-so says" and "So-and-so also says", which is useless... i.e. no confirmation of anything.

#Uspol #journalism #Iran #Iranwar

@ai6yr I'd hope we'll see non-US imagery from Europe or elsewhere?