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Everyone has to rely on Iran's satellite images to find out what's happening because Trump is censoring the war by forcing a blackout of commercial satellites from providing any images.

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The highest resolution imaging satellite Iran has is "Paya", and it's 5m base resolution. These do not appear to be that at all.

I’d bet all the money in my pocket they’re getting imagery from the Russians, who obviously want to maximize pain for the Americans.

Of course they are, but I don’t see how that relates to this statement:

> Everyone has to rely on Iran's satellite images to find out what's happening

No one - not even Iran - is relying on Iran’s satellite images.

Iran has had access [0] to a satellite capable of capturing images with 0.5 m resolution [1] since 2024.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/iran-used-chinese-spy-sa...

[1] https://thedefensewatch.com/product/tee-01b-earth-observatio...

Having access to the images doesn't make them "Iran's satellite images"

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