Linh Nguyen

What happens when a major satellite company known for taking pictures of Earth every single day hits pause on the Middle East? Al Jazeera’s @N_Linhhh explains what Planet Labs PBC's delay of its satellite imagery means during an active war.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei the country's new supreme leader following the killing of his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli strikes on February 28, the state-run media has announced. cnn.it/40Wz3ly

Reports about the KRI or the Iraqi Kurds being a part of a plan to arm & support the Iranian Kurdish opposition to cross the borders into Iran 4 an arm struggle is incorrect & false. We are not a part of this war & our goal is to preserve,maintain peace and security of our region & beyond. In the meantime we condemn these unjustifiable attacks on Kurdistan & call on the international community to help us and stop this aggression and protect our region.

Urgent: Claims that our forces have crossed the border into Rojhalat are false. We firmly reject these statements,no such movements have taken place.

Not a single Iraqi Kurd has crossed the border. This is patently false.

The part when the US arms the Kurds then betrays them again comes earlier every year

Report: Kurds expected to launch Iran ground offensive after receiving U.S. arms haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…

I have been very clear and consistent in my reports on Iran’s nuclear programme: while there has been no evidence of Iran building a nuclear bomb, its large stockpile of near-weapons grade enriched uranium and refusal to grant my inspectors full access are cause for serious concern. For these reasons, my previous reports indicate that unless and until Iran assists the @IAEAorg in resolving the outstanding safeguards issues, the Agency will not be in a position to provide assurance that Iran’s nuclear programme is exclusively peaceful.

#BREAKING: Trump has spoken by phone with a number of Iranian Kurdish opposition leaders - Senior Kurdish official confirms to Rudaw

People who didn’t know till yesterday that khomeini and khamenei are different are giving their expert opinions on the war.

European natural gas futures are spiking 42% in the wake of the shutdown of a major supplier of ship-born gas due to the fighting in the Middle East. apnews.com/article/oil-pr…

HISTORIC MOMENT The Lebanese government announces the immediate ban on Hezbollah's military activities

QatarEnergy to stop production of LNG Due to military attacks on QatarEnergy’s operating facilities in Ras Laffan Industrial City and Mesaieed Industrial City in the State of Qatar, QatarEnergy has ceased production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and associated products. QatarEnergy values its relationships with all of its stakeholders and will continue to communicate the latest available information. #QatarEnergy #Qatar

This claim, taken from a Telegram channel, is completely untrue. Iranian authorities have not taken responsibility for a deadly blast near a primary school in Minab that killed dozens of school children, nor have they said that the damage was caused by an IRGC missile.

first in my bloodline to witness Al Arabiya doing a ten-screen split zoom broadcast

BREAKING: US strikes on Iran used Anthropic's Claude, just hours after it was banned by President Trump, per WSJ. Details include: 1. US Central Command in the Middle East used Claude for intel purposes 2. Claude was used for intelligence assessments, target identification, and simulating battle scenarios 3. US government says phasing out a Claude will take 6 months 4. Similar intelligence usage was seen in President Maduro’s capture AI warfare is rapidly accelerating.

NEW: Behind the scenes, a lobbying alliance of Saudi Arabia's MBS and Israel's Netanyahu urged Trump to level a major strike against Iran in the days before the president's decision (even as as Riyadh publicly advocated for diplomacy) washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly. When this person bought in, the market had this at a 17% probability. They turned roughly $87,000 into over half a million dollars overnight. Reminder that Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket's advisory board and his firm invested double-digit millions into the platform last year. The DOJ and CFTC both had active investigations into Polymarket that were dropped after Trump took office. Prediction markets cannot be a vehicle for profiting off advance knowledge of military action. We need answers, transparency, and oversight.