*** 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.

@ai6yr was thinking about this a little bit. A little worried he might drop a nuke after the 48 hours to try and get them to surrender. I don't think it will be on a city or anything, but likely as a threat. I hope that isn't the case.

@bhhaskin The normal(ish) decision making process that you'd think leaders make aren't being followed, just random synapse firings... so nuke is not out of the question, for sure. No consultation with experts, no carefully weighed options, just whatever pops out of the egotistical maniacal neurons at the moment.

@ai6yr and it seems like he is itching for it.

@bhhaskin Serious executive control issues in the brain. What his voters admired "he has no filter!" "he does anything he wants!" "he doesn't ask for permission!" "he grabs/takes/steals whatever he wants" -- I think it is a symptom of a shrunken prefrontal cortex (ie impulsive behavior control). So, a normal person, sitting at a meeting, uses that part of the brain to say: "Hey, this is am important meeting, I don't need to talk about Sharpies for 10 minutes", but his is damaged, so he talks about Sharpies because of the impulse control isn't there. Same with all the rest. Very undesirable in the leader of what arguably is the most powerful nation in the world, with a lot of nuclear weapons et al.