Read our Privacy noticeA San Francisco-based satellite company says it temporarily restricted access to its widely used images during the Iran war, at the request of the Trump administration. Planet told SFGate it limited access because the government expressed concerns about the “potential misuse” of its ultra-high-definition images. Planet added that it is “temporarily reinstating a delay on publishing of images” over Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan as the Iran war has ratcheted back up. In March, shortly after the first phase of the Iran war began, the company reportedly imposed a 14-day delay on imagery of the Middle East. The European Union, meanwhile, announced this month it would institute a one-day delay on the release of satellite images showing shipping lanes near the Strait of Hormuz captured by its Copernicus Earth observation program.