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Trump says he doesn't know if Iran will surrender

Rank
Ran
32h
Updated
4d ago
Closed
Outlets
12
Regions
5
Countries
11
Languages
7

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INTLMiddle East Eye International · English 29 Sept, 20:23 UTC

The earliest of 5 English reports

Read it also in العربية (2) · Português (1) · Türkçe (1) · Русский (1) · فارسی (1) · 中文 (1) · +5 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 12 after 47 hours.

5 10 15
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Al Modon, 29 Sept, 06:01 UTC.
  2. Second region: International, with Middle East Eye.
  3. Second country: Turkey, with Cumhuriyet.
  4. Fastest hour: +5 outlets from 29 Sept, 21:34 UTC.
  5. Last article: 12 outlets.

Where it travelled

47 of 47 hours

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The 11 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. 2 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

50%17%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 9%
  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 8%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 8%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 8%
  • Middle East 6 outlets · 6 countries · 50%
  • International 2 outlets · 17%

First movers

  1. Al Modon 29 Sept, 06:01 UTC
  2. INTLMiddle East Eye +14h 22m
  3. Cumhuriyet +15h 4m
  4. Shafaq News +15h 33m
  5. INTLAl-Monitor +15h 45m

Last to join

  1. Vedomosti 1 Oct, 04:53 UTC
  2. Etemad 30 Sept, 04:20 UTC
  3. Al Jazeera 30 Sept, 00:00 UTC
  4. Liberty Times 29 Sept, 23:11 UTC
  5. Mosaïque FM 29 Sept, 22:32 UTC

The figures

Coverage
12 outlets in 11 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 12 outlets, 1 state-owned, 11 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Tunisia. Americas 1: Brazil. Asia-Pacific 1: Taiwan. Europe 1: Russia. Middle East 6: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, English, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article Al Modon, 29 Sept 2026, 06:01 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 20:30 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 04:53 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Conflict & security. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continued by Trump says Iran war could end very soon; Trump says Iran in poor condition, threatens steel barrier; ترامب: لا نعرف مع من يجب أن نتعامل في إيران. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
29 Sept 2026 130 10.07 8 8 8 8 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 29 Sept, 20:30 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 04:53 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 12 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • Mosaïque FM Tunisia 29 Sept, 22:32 UTC
    ترامب: لا أعرف ما إذا كانت إيران ستستسلم بعد

Americas 1 outlet

  • CNN Brasil Brazil 29 Sept, 22:09 UTC
    Trump diz que não sabe quando Irã vai desistir da guerra

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Liberty Times Taiwan 29 Sept, 23:11 UTC
    斷言伊朗將放棄!川普:他們情況非常糟糕 荷姆茲石油出口回升

Europe 1 outlet

  • Vedomosti Russia 1 Oct, 04:53 UTC
    Трамп заявил о скором завершении войны в Иране

Middle East 6 outlets

  • Etemad Iran 30 Sept, 04:20 UTC
    ادعای ترامپ: ایران تسلیم خواهد شد
  • Al Jazeera Qatar 30 Sept, 00:00 UTC
    Iran war live: Trump claims war will end ‘very soon’, provides no details
  • Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia 29 Sept, 22:28 UTC
    Trump Says He Does Not Know if Iran Is Going to ‘Give Up Yet’
  • Shafaq News Iraq 29 Sept, 21:34 UTC
    Trump says Iran will surrender
  • Cumhuriyet Turkey 29 Sept, 21:05 UTC
    Trump: 'İran henüz pes edecek mi bilmiyorum'
  • Al Modon Lebanon 29 Sept, 06:01 UTC
    ترامب: لا أعرف ما إذا كانت إيران ستستسلم

International 2 outlets

  • INTLAl-Monitor International 29 Sept, 21:46 UTC
    Trump says he does not know if Iran is going to 'give up yet'
  • INTLMiddle East Eye International 29 Sept, 20:23 UTC
    Trump says he does not know if Iran is going to 'give up yet'
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