It's Thursday, the 16th of April, welcome to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right. Let's get briefed.

First up, an apparent IED attack in central Tehran leaves three injured, including a member of the

regime's besieged paramilitary force. It's an incident that could point to something building

inside Iran. I'll have the details. Later in the show,

new reporting claims Iran used a Chinese spy satellite to help target U.S. bases in the Middle

East, and that's a charge that Beijing, of course, is now denying. Plus, Europe is moving ahead

with a backup plan for NATO, preparing for the possibility that the U.S. steps back

from its leadership role within the long-standing alliance. And in today's back of the brief,

Russia cuts internet access for millions, calling it temporary, nothing to see here, but behind the

scenes, the move is stirring anger among the country's elite. But first, today's

PDB spotlight. We've spent a lot of time here on the PDB focused on the big picture of the war

with Iran, the drone and missile strikes, the U.S. and Israeli air campaign, and of course,

the strategic choke point, that is, the Strait of Hormuz. But there's another front in this conflict

that's getting far less attention, and that's what's happening inside Iran. And the reason it doesn't

get the attention it deserves is fairly straightforward. For nearly six weeks now, the regime has

maintained a sweeping internet blackout, making it extremely difficult to get reliable, real-time

information out of the country. What we're left with is a mix of state-controlled reporting

and outside human rights organizations trying their best to piece together what they can.

Still, despite that blackout, some information does manage to trickle out, and what we're seeing,

at the very least, raises some important questions.

Let's start with an incident in Tehran.

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