It's Tuesday, 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, Iran's

internet blackout is exposing growing cracks inside the regime as politically connected elites

receive privileged online access while millions of ordinary citizens remain digitally cut off

from the outside world. Later in the show, Kim Jong-un's regime

reportedly adopts a new constitutional provision requiring automatic nuclear retaliation if the

North Korean leader is assassinated. Plus, an international maritime operation delivers a major blow to

drug cartels after authorities

crack down on what investigators describe as a transatlantic cocaine highway. And in today's

back of the brief, the man accused of targeting President Trump during last month's White House

correspondence dinner pleads not guilty to federal charges. But first, today's PDB spotlight.

For years, the Iranian regime has tried to present itself as a united front, the repressive

government, and the Iranian citizens standing firm against foreign enemies. At least that's what

the regime has tried to do. But now, as war, sanctions, and economic

turmoil, and domestic unrest continue battering the country, a bitter fight over something as basic

as internet access is exposing growing cracks inside the Islamic Republic. Because in today's Iran,

unrestricted access to the internet is no longer treated as a right.

Increasingly, it's becoming a privilege reserve for the politically connected.

Since January, millions of Iranians have endured what monitoring groups say is the longest nationwide internet blackout in the country's history.

The shutdown first began amid anti-government protests earlier this year,

when the government responded to the protest by killing thousands of their own citizens,

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