Europe / United Kingdom · Conflict & Security

UK alleges Iran linked to airbase security incident

Rank
Ran: 25h
Updated: 4d ago
Final
Outlets: 70
Regions: 5
Countries: 44
Languages: 20

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: BBC News, 30 Sept, 15:59 UTC.
Second country: United States, with Bloomberg.
Second region: Americas, with Bloomberg.
Fastest hour: +27 outlets from 30 Sept, 15:59 UTC.
Last article: 70 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 44 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. 3 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

17%20%40%17%

Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 2%
Americas 12 outlets · 6 countries · 17%
Asia-Pacific 14 outlets · 11 countries · 20%
Europe 28 outlets · 18 countries · 40%
Middle East 12 outlets · 7 countries · 17%
International 3 outlets · 4%

First movers

BBC News 30 Sept, 15:59 UTC
Bloomberg +0m
Financial Times +0m
The Guardian +0m
VG +4m

Last to join

La Tercera 1 Oct, 17:57 UTC
The Namibian 1 Oct, 13:20 UTC
Republica 1 Oct, 07:45 UTC
Der Spiegel 1 Oct, 05:31 UTC
Online Khabar 1 Oct, 04:24 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: UK investigates potential Iran link to military base arrests, 28 Sept 2026, 10 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 70 outlets in 44 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 70 outlets, 6 state-owned, 9 public-service, 55 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Namibia. Americas 6: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, United States. Asia-Pacific 11: Afghanistan, Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand. Europe 18: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 7: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, 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, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Thai, Ukrainian, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article BBC News, 30 Sept 2026, 15:59 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 16:10 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 17:57 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.
Chain: Continues UK investigates potential Iran link to military base arrests. 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

30 Sept 2026 8 51.65 59 37 59 37 4.0

1 Oct 2026 10 40.56 70 44 11 10 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 16:10 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 17:57 UTC

Covered by 70 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
30 Sept 2026	8	51.65	59	37	59	37	4.0
1 Oct 2026	10	40.56	70	44	11	10	4.0

Covered by 70 outlets

Africa 1 outlet

Americas 12 outlets

Asia-Pacific 14 outlets

Europe 28 outlets

Middle East 12 outlets

International 3 outlets