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Hegseth's dirty secret: satellite firm Planet Labs agrees to hide extent of US carnage in Iran?
Published on Apr 05, 2026 04:21 pm IST
Planet Labs has announced an indefinite blackout on satellite imagery of Iran and the wider Middle East conflict zone after what it says was a U.S. government request to imagery providers. The company told customers it is retroactively withholding imagery from March 9, expanding an earlier 14-day publication delay, and shifting to a managed-access system under which images will only be released case by case for urgent, mission-critical, or public-interest needs.
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