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Iran says its military will keep striking vessels in Strait of Hormuz if necessary

Rank
Running
16h
Updated
6h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
6
Regions
2
Countries
4
Languages
4

INTLMiddle East Eye International · English 11 Oct, 10:43 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Azərbaycan (2) · Türkçe (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, 6 after 17 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Middle East Eye, 11 Oct, 10:43 UTC.
  2. Second region: Europe, with Interfax.
  3. Second country: Azerbaijan, with APA.az.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 11 Oct, 19:31 UTC.
  5. Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

17 of 17 hours

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The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

67%17%16%

  • Europe 4 outlets · 2 countries · 67%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
  • International 1 outlet · 16%

First movers

  1. INTLMiddle East Eye 11 Oct, 10:43 UTC
  2. Interfax +3h 23m
  3. APA.az +8h 47m
  4. Report.az +8h 49m
  5. TASS +8h 52m

Latest arrivals

  1. Dünya 11 Oct, 20:38 UTC
  2. TASS 11 Oct, 19:36 UTC
  3. Report.az 11 Oct, 19:32 UTC
  4. APA.az 11 Oct, 19:31 UTC
  5. Interfax 11 Oct, 14:07 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 1 state-owned, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 2: Azerbaijan, Russia. Middle East 1: 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
Azerbaijani, English, Russian, Turkish.
Timeline
Earliest article Middle East Eye, 11 Oct 2026, 10:43 UTC. First seen 11 Oct 2026, 10:50 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 20:38 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 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
0.84, 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.
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
11 Oct 2026 285 2.88 6 4 6 4 4.7

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Started 11 Oct, 10:50 UTC · Updated 20:38 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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  • Dünya Turkey 11 Oct, 20:38 UTC
    İran’dan Hürmüz Boğazı’nda gemilere uyarı: Düşman sayılacaklar
  • TASS Russia 11 Oct, 19:36 UTC
    Iran warns ships against transiting Strait of Hormuz with their navigation systems off
  • Report.az Azerbaijan 11 Oct, 19:32 UTC
    İran naviqasiyası söndürülmüş halda Hörmüzü keçən gəmilərə xəbərdarlıq edib
  • APA.az Azerbaijan 11 Oct, 19:31 UTC
    İran Hörmüz boğazından naviqasiya sistemlərini söndürərək keçən gəmiləri düşmən hesab edəcək
  • Interfax Russia 11 Oct, 14:07 UTC
    Иранские военные намерены продолжать атаковать суда в Ормузском проливе
  • INTLMiddle East Eye International 11 Oct, 10:43 UTC
    Senior military commander says Iran will continue to strike vessels ‘if necessary’
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