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Iran denies involvement in UK military base incident

Rank
Ran
16h
Updated
4d ago
Final
Outlets
8
Regions
2
Countries
6
Languages
5

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INTLMiddle East Eye International · English 30 Sept, 21:37 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Lietuvių (2) · Русский (2) · Português (1) · Română (1) · +3 languages

Read at Middle East Eye

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: Middle East Eye, 30 Sept, 21:37 UTC.
  2. Second region: Europe, with Interfax.
  3. Second country: Lithuania, with LRT.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 1 Oct, 04:59 UTC.
  5. Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

18 of 18 hours

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The 6 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

75%13%12%

  • Europe 6 outlets · 4 countries · 75%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 13%
  • International 1 outlet · 12%

First movers

  1. INTLMiddle East Eye 30 Sept, 21:37 UTC
  2. Interfax +2h 32m
  3. LRT +7h 22m
  4. Kommersant +7h 42m
  5. Lrytas +8h 48m

Last to join

  1. Arab News 1 Oct, 14:46 UTC
  2. Digi24 1 Oct, 13:55 UTC
  3. RTP 1 Oct, 07:30 UTC
  4. Lrytas 1 Oct, 06:25 UTC
  5. Kommersant 1 Oct, 05:19 UTC

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 6 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 2 public-service, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 4: Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Russia. Middle East 1: Saudi Arabia. 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
English, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian.
Timeline
Earliest article Middle East Eye, 30 Sept 2026, 21:37 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 21:50 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 14:46 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.
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
1 Oct 2026 309 3.95 8 6 7 5 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 21:50 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 14:46 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Europe 6 outlets

  • Digi24 Romania 1 Oct, 13:55 UTC
    „Latră la copacul greșit”. Iranul neagă acuzațiile lui Burnham de implicare într-un presupus atac terorist la o bază militară britanică
  • RTP Portugal 1 Oct, 07:30 UTC
    Teerão afirma que Burnham está equivocado ao acusar Irão de ataque a base militar
  • Lrytas Lithuania 1 Oct, 06:25 UTC
    Po JK kaltinimų dėl sustabdyto išpuolio prieš oro bazę – Irano reakcija
  • Kommersant Russia 1 Oct, 05:19 UTC
    Иран отверг причастность к инциденту на авиабазе США в Британии
  • LRT Lithuania 1 Oct, 04:59 UTC
    Iranas atmeta JK vyriausybės įtarimus dėl sąsajų su incidentu karinėje bazėje
  • Interfax Russia 1 Oct, 00:09 UTC
    Иран отвергает причастность к инциденту на используемой США авиабазе в Британии

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Arab News Saudi Arabia 1 Oct, 14:46 UTC
    Iran denies link to suspected airbase plot, summons British ambassador

International 1 outlet

  • INTLMiddle East Eye International 30 Sept, 21:37 UTC
    Iran’s Araghchi rejects UK claim of Tehran’s role in air base incident
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