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Middle East / Iran · Conflict & Security

Iran says it is prepared for war with United States

Rank
Ran
30h
Updated
7d ago
Final
Outlets
21
Regions
4
Countries
18
Languages
11

+7

Where it travelled

The 18 countries whose press covered it; when each joined is no longer held. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

19%28%24%24%

  • Americas 4 outlets · 4 countries · 19%
  • Asia-Pacific 6 outlets · 5 countries · 28%
  • Europe 5 outlets · 4 countries · 24%
  • Middle East 5 outlets · 4 countries · 24%
  • International 1 outlet · 5%

The figures

Coverage
21 outlets in 18 countries, across 4 regions. The article links are no longer held: they lasted a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 21 outlets, 5 state-owned, 2 public-service, 14 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 4: Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, United States. Asia-Pacific 5: Afghanistan, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Taiwan, Vietnam. Europe 4: Greece, Portugal, Russia, Sweden. Middle East 4: Oman, Qatar, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. 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, Greek, English, Spanish, Indonesian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article NBC News, 27 Sept 2026, 13:55 UTC. First seen 27 Sept 2026, 14:20 UTC. Last seen 28 Sept 2026, 21:10 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
19.84, at the end of the last day measured. 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
27 Sept 2026 79 9.51 8 7 8 7 3.3
28 Sept 2026 48 19.84 21 18 13 13 3.3

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How this was measured

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Started 27 Sept, 14:20 UTC · Updated 28 Sept, 21:10 UTC

Covered by 21 outlets

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Americas 4 outlets

  • Cubadebate Cuba
  • El Sol de México Mexico
  • Infobae Argentina
  • NBC News United States

Asia-Pacific 6 outlets

  • Dân Trí Vietnam
  • Khaama Press Afghanistan
  • Liberty Times Taiwan
  • Republika Indonesia
  • Tengrinews Kazakhstan
  • VOV Vietnam

Europe 5 outlets

  • Aftonbladet Sweden
  • ERT Greece
  • Interfax Russia
  • RTP Portugal
  • TASS Russia

Middle East 5 outlets

  • Al Jazeera Qatar
  • Al Roya Oman
  • Hürriyet Turkey
  • Sözcü Turkey
  • The National United Arab Emirates

International 1 outlet

  • INTLMiddle East Eye International

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