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Iran denies involvement in RAF Fairford airbase attack plot

Rank
Ran
29h
Updated
6d ago
Final
Outlets
8
Regions
3
Countries
7
Languages
4

+0

Al Jazeera Qatar · English 28 Sept, 15:29 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in العربية (3) · Ελληνικά (1) · Русский (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 30 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Al Modon, 28 Sept, 12:16 UTC.
  2. Second country: Tunisia, with Mosaïque FM.
  3. Second region: Africa, with Mosaïque FM.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 28 Sept, 12:16 UTC.
  5. Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

31 of 31 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

13%37%50%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
  • Europe 3 outlets · 2 countries · 37%
  • Middle East 4 outlets · 4 countries · 50%

First movers

  1. Al Modon 28 Sept, 12:16 UTC
  2. Mosaïque FM +43m
  3. Interfax +2h 3m
  4. Al Jazeera +3h 14m
  5. Oman Daily +3h 14m

Last to join

  1. Tehran Times 29 Sept, 18:28 UTC
  2. Alphanews 28 Sept, 18:50 UTC
  3. TASS 28 Sept, 16:43 UTC
  4. Oman Daily 28 Sept, 15:30 UTC
  5. Al Jazeera 28 Sept, 15:29 UTC

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 7 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 4 state-owned, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Tunisia. Europe 2: Cyprus, Russia. Middle East 4: Iran, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar. 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, Greek, English, Russian.
Timeline
Earliest article Al Modon, 28 Sept 2026, 12:16 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 13:20 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 18:28 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 Europe, United Kingdom. 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 Iran summons British ambassador over RAF Fairford plot allegations; A brit miniszterelnök szerint Iránnak köze lehetett a Fairford katonai bázis elleni feltételezett merénylettervhez. 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
28 Sept 2026 190 5.40 7 6 7 6 3.3
29 Sept 2026 209 6.07 8 7 1 1 3.3 → 4.0

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Started 28 Sept, 13:20 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 18:28 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • Mosaïque FM Tunisia 28 Sept, 12:59 UTC
    طهران تنفي 'بشكل قاطع' ضلوعها في مخطط مهاجمة قاعدة عسكرية في إنقلترا

Europe 3 outlets

  • Alphanews Cyprus 28 Sept, 18:50 UTC
    Σχέδιο επίθεσης σε βάση της RAF στη Βρετανία: Πού στρέφονται οι υποψίες και το πιθανό κίνητρο
  • TASS Russia 28 Sept, 16:43 UTC
    Iranian Embassy in UK denies involvement in Fairford incident
  • Interfax Russia 28 Sept, 14:19 UTC
    Иран отверг обвинения в причастности к подготовке нападения на британскую авиабазу

Middle East 4 outlets

  • Tehran Times Iran 29 Sept, 18:28 UTC
    Iran embassy rejects UK media claims over RAF Fairford arrests, warns against fueling ‘Iranophobia’
  • Oman Daily Oman 28 Sept, 15:30 UTC
    ايران تنفي علاقتها بتهديدات قرب قاعدة فيرفرورد الجوية
  • Al Jazeera Qatar 28 Sept, 15:29 UTC
    Iran denies link to attack on airbase as UK minister warns of ‘proxies’
  • Al Modon Lebanon 28 Sept, 12:16 UTC
    إيران تنفي أي علاقة لها بمخطط استهداف قاعدة "فيرفورد" الجوية
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