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Iran executes two men linked to January 2026 protests

Rank
Running
16h
Updated
12h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
8
Regions
3
Countries
7
Languages
4

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Iran International Iran · English 5 Oct, 11:32 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Ελληνικά (2) · Español (1) · Norsk (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 17 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Proto Thema, 5 Oct, 11:24 UTC.
  2. Second country: Iran, with Iran International.
  3. Second region: Middle East, with Iran International.
  4. Fastest hour: +5 outlets from 5 Oct, 11:24 UTC.
  5. Now: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

17 of 17 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

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

First movers

  1. Proto Thema 5 Oct, 11:24 UTC
  2. ERT +3m
  3. Iran International +9m
  4. Anadolu Agency +10m
  5. Infobae +52m

Latest arrivals

  1. VG 5 Oct, 15:37 UTC
  2. Asharq Al-Awsat 5 Oct, 14:54 UTC
  3. The Jerusalem Post 5 Oct, 13:20 UTC
  4. Infobae 5 Oct, 12:15 UTC
  5. Anadolu Agency 5 Oct, 11:34 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Iran executes detainee linked to January anti-government protests, 3 to 5 Oct 2026, 16 outlets.

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, 1 state-owned, 1 public-service, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Argentina. Europe 2: Greece, Norway. Middle East 4: Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey. 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
Greek, English, Spanish, Norwegian.
Timeline
Earliest article Proto Thema, 5 Oct 2026, 11:24 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 11:40 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 15:37 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 Middle East, Iran. Topic Politics. 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
0.79, as of now. 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
Continues Iran executes detainee linked to January anti-government protests. 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
5 Oct 2026 116 6.39 8 7 8 7 4.1

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Started 5 Oct, 11:40 UTC · Updated 15:37 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • Infobae Argentina 5 Oct, 12:15 UTC
    Ejecutados en Irán dos hombres condenados por la muerte de cuatro agentes durante las últimas protestas

Europe 3 outlets

  • VG Norway 5 Oct, 15:37 UTC
    To henrettet for drap på politifolk i Iran
  • ERT Greece 5 Oct, 11:27 UTC
    Την εκτέλεση ακόμη δύο διαδηλωτών ανακοίνωσε το Ιράν
  • Proto Thema Greece 5 Oct, 11:24 UTC
    Εκτελέστηκαν δύο άνδρες στο Ιράν, είχαν συλληφθεί κατά τη διάρκεια των διαδηλώσεων τον Ιανουάριο του 2026

Middle East 4 outlets

  • Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia 5 Oct, 14:54 UTC
    Iran Executes Two Men Linked to Anti-govt Protests
  • The Jerusalem Post Israel 5 Oct, 13:20 UTC
    Iran executes two men arrested over January 2026 protests, Mizan reports
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey 5 Oct, 11:34 UTC
    Iran executes 2 protesters over alleged role in killing police officers during January protests
  • Iran International Iran 5 Oct, 11:32 UTC
    Two more January protesters executed in Iran
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