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Iran threatens to target US bases and warships if ground invasion

Rank
Running
19h
Updated
38m ago
Momentum
+270%
Outlets
7
Regions
2
Countries
5
Languages
4

+0

The Express Tribune Pakistan · English 5 Oct, 03:18 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Indonesia (2) · Tiếng Việt (2) · Melayu (1) · +2 languages

Read at The Express Tribune

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 23 hours.

2 4 6 8
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Express Tribune, 5 Oct, 03:18 UTC.
  2. Second country: Turkey, with Anadolu Agency.
  3. Second region: Middle East, with Anadolu Agency.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 5 Oct, 09:04 UTC.
  5. Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

23 of 23 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

86%14%

  • Asia-Pacific 6 outlets · 4 countries · 86%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%

First movers

  1. The Express Tribune 5 Oct, 03:18 UTC
  2. Anadolu Agency +3h 3m
  3. Dân Trí +5h 46m
  4. Media Indonesia +6h 23m
  5. Detik +6h 40m

Latest arrivals

  1. Utusan Malaysia 6 Oct, 01:30 UTC
  2. VOV 5 Oct, 10:37 UTC
  3. Detik 5 Oct, 09:58 UTC
  4. Media Indonesia 5 Oct, 09:41 UTC
  5. Dân Trí 5 Oct, 09:04 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 3 state-owned, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 4: Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Vietnam. Middle East 1: 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
English, Indonesian, Malay, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article The Express Tribune, 5 Oct 2026, 03:18 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 06:30 UTC. Last seen 6 Oct 2026, 01:30 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
1.61, 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
5 Oct 2026 171 4.88 6 4 6 4 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 06:30 UTC · Updated 6 Oct, 01:30 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 6 outlets

  • Utusan Malaysia Malaysia 6 Oct, 01:30 UTC
    Iran sasar semua pangkalan tentera, kapal Amerika jika diserang
  • VOV Vietnam 5 Oct, 10:37 UTC
    Iran cảnh báo nhắm vào mọi căn cứ và tàu chiến Mỹ trong khu vực
  • Detik Indonesia 5 Oct, 09:58 UTC
    Iran Ancam Serang Pangkalan-Kapal Perang AS Jika Ada Invasi Darat
  • Media Indonesia Indonesia 5 Oct, 09:41 UTC
    Ini Strategi Iran Jika AS Melakukan Invasi Darat
  • Dân Trí Vietnam 5 Oct, 09:04 UTC
    Iran cảnh báo Mỹ về kịch bản triển khai quân trên bộ
  • The Express Tribune Pakistan 5 Oct, 03:18 UTC
    Iran threatens to target US bases, warships if Washington launches ground invasion

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Anadolu Agency Turkey 5 Oct, 06:21 UTC
    Iran threatens to target US bases, warships if Washington launches ground invasion
Read at The Express Tribune

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