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Within hours of the first strikes on Iran, John Kiriakou reported that American cable carriers had pulled Al Jazeera — a friend in Florida texted him that Dish Network had blocked it, and viewers reported the same of Comcast Xfinity in Boston. His reading was blunt: they do not want Americans to see what is happening in the Middle East.
Al Jazeera blocked in the United States was the first thing John Kiriakou said on air on 28 February 2026, when Ted Rall opened an unscheduled Saturday broadcast by apologising for the circumstances.
Kiriakou did not begin with the war. “Ted, my friend Genie just texted me from Florida to say that the Dish Network has blocked Al Jazeera from broadcasting here in the United States.”[1]
His gloss was one sentence: “They don’t want us to see what’s happening in the Middle East.”[1]
A second report followed from a viewer during the broadcast — Comcast Xfinity doing the same in the Boston area — with the observation that carriers do not do that on a whim.[2]
What he was watching instead
Having reported the blackout, Kiriakou sourced the morning’s worst news to American outlets: “We know from CNN and from other sources, the New York Times is reporting that an Israeli missile hit a girl’s school in southern Iran this morning killing 57 children.”[1][3]
His warning about the figure was that it was not an aberration. “So, get used to that. That’s going to be what this war looks like. The Israelis don’t give a [expletive] about human life, about civilians, and we’re going to see a lot of civilian casualties.”[3]
The precedent
The blackout was discussed on air as a repetition rather than a novelty — Al Jazeera America having been effectively shut down under the Bush administration, not by order but by leaning on the cable companies until it had no outlet.[4][5]
What made the loss operational rather than symbolic, in the same exchange, was that no other broadcaster carries the same footage: on Gaza, the channel is “the only game in town.”[4]
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
