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US redirects 130 commercial vessels amid Iran blockade

Rank
Running
31h
Updated
19h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
7
Regions
3
Countries
6
Languages
6

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Anadolu Agency Turkey · English 5 Oct, 22:13 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Indonesia (1) · Tiếng Việt (1) · Ελληνικά (1) · Русский (1) · العربية (1) · +4 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 32 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Interfax, 5 Oct, 21:44 UTC.
  2. Second country: Turkey, with Anadolu Agency.
  3. Second region: Middle East, with Anadolu Agency.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 5 Oct, 21:44 UTC.
  5. Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

32 of 32 hours

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The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

29%28%43%

  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 29%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 28%
  • Middle East 3 outlets · 2 countries · 43%

First movers

  1. Interfax 5 Oct, 21:44 UTC
  2. Anadolu Agency +29m
  3. ERT +2h 13m
  4. Gulf News +3h 15m
  5. VOV +4h 16m

Latest arrivals

  1. Media Indonesia 6 Oct, 09:42 UTC
  2. Al Ittihad 6 Oct, 06:39 UTC
  3. VOV 6 Oct, 02:00 UTC
  4. Gulf News 6 Oct, 00:58 UTC
  5. ERT 5 Oct, 23:57 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 6 countries, across 3 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, 1 public-service, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 2: Indonesia, Vietnam. Europe 2: Greece, Russia. Middle East 2: Turkey, United Arab Emirates. 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, Indonesian, Russian, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article Interfax, 5 Oct 2026, 21:44 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 21:50 UTC. Last seen 6 Oct 2026, 09:42 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 International. Topic Shipping & trade. 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
0.10, 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
6 Oct 2026 159 5.14 7 6 4 3 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 21:50 UTC · Updated 6 Oct, 09:42 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • Media Indonesia Indonesia 6 Oct, 09:42 UTC
    Blokade Iran Berlanjut, AS Alihkan 130 Kapal di Laut
  • VOV Vietnam 6 Oct, 02:00 UTC
    Mỹ tuyên bố chặn 130 tàu liên quan lệnh phong tỏa Iran

Europe 2 outlets

  • ERT Greece 5 Oct, 23:57 UTC
    CENTCOM: Ανακατευθύνθηκαν 130 εμπορικά πλοία στο πλαίσιο του ναυτικού αποκλεισμού του Ιράν
  • Interfax Russia 5 Oct, 23:12 UTC
    Штаты за последние два месяца уничтожили 13 судов, нарушивших блокаду Ирана
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Число перехваченных ВМС США торговых судов после возобновления блокады Ирана достигло 130 5 Oct, 21:44 UTC

Middle East 3 outlets

  • Al Ittihad United Arab Emirates 6 Oct, 06:39 UTC
    تحويل مسار 130 سفينة تجارية منذ استئناف الحصار على إيران
  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates 6 Oct, 00:58 UTC
    US Navy redirects 130 vessels amid Iran naval blockade
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey 5 Oct, 22:13 UTC
    US says 130th commercial vessel redirected during Iran blockade
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