Topic: Iran — Neutral reports only
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-17 00:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US military says it has attacked two boats that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) allegedly used in an attempt to seize an American drone.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-17 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Tehran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: In talks with his Iranian counterpart in Beijing, Foreign Minister Wang Yi calls on Tehran and Washington to stay rational
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-17 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: In talks with his Iranian counterpart in Beijing, Foreign Minister Wang Yi calls on Tehran and Washington to stay rational
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 23:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The decision by Britain’s Labour government to impose new sanctions on Israel, just as the Islamic Republic’s regional Axis of Evil has been heavily degraded, its top leadership eliminated, and its proxy networks shattered, is not a routine diplomatic shift. It is the continuation of a long-standing, calculated historical pattern.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 23:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The US lost around 30 MQ-9 Reaper drones in the conflict with Iran. This is according to a new Lead Inspector General Report to the United States Congress, Operation Epic Fury, which covers the fighting from April to June 2026. Since June, more Reaper drones have been lost in the conflict.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 23:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, that Beijing is “willing to strengthen dialogue and cooperation with Iran, and safeguard Iran’s legitimate rights and interests”.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 22:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: China encourages Iran and the US to remain rational, exercise restraint, return to the Islamabad memorandum and "engage in substantive consultations", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Iranian counterpart in Beijing on Wednesday. "We urge all parties to take effective measures to reopen the Strait of Hormuz at an early date" to safeguard the stability of international energy transport and supply chains, Wang said, according to China's foreign ministry.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 22:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Trade Union Congress (TUC), an umbrella organisation representing five million British workers, voted for the first time in its history to back the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 22:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Amnesty International has called for the arrest of 87 Iranian officials for "crimes against humanity" over their involvement in cracking down on the 2022 Woman Life Freedom protests.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 22:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Saudi Arabia's air defences intercepted and destroyed a Houthi drone south of Mecca on Tuesday before it entered prohibited airspace over the holy city, said a spokesman for the Saudi-led military coalition fighting Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 22:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Futures are higher into Fed Day where consensus is for a 25bp hike, the first since July 2023, with unknown levels of communication, and the question is what the dot plot shows (see preview here). S&P 500 futures are up by 0.3%, finding relief after days of selling as traders wait Kevin Warsh to deliver an expected interest-rate hike that will help ease fears that inflation may spiral.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 22:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Consumers are facing a double-whammy of jumping oil prices and Treasury yields amid the U.S. war with Iran that is leaving them increasingly cash-strapped.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has sent around 100,000 workers abroad, mostly to China and Russia, with some involved in manufacturing military drones at Russian factories in violation of U.N. sanctions, an international monitoring report showed Wednesday.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 21:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 21:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The usual suspects might have declared Iran’s “axis of resistance” defeated too early.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 21:29 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The action is likely the last House vote on issue ahead of the midterm elections
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 21:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Escalation in the Gulf area conflict certainly appeared overnight after Saudi Arabia accused Iran-backed Houthi rebels of targeting Mecca with a one-way attack drone, raising the risk of a deeper conflict as the kingdom's East-West pipeline was knocked offline last week.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 20:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Belarus has agreed to free 25 prisoners in return for a further easing of U.S. sanctions, an envoy for U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 20:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Latest updatesIran war latest: China urges reopening of Strait of Hormuz in talks with Iran's Araghchi
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 20:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: CloseGet news alerts fromYou can manage notifications at any time by clicking the notifications icon.SubscribeMaybe later
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 20:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli officials have leaked details of a secret meeting between military commanders from the US, Israel and several Arab states in Germany last week to discuss the war launched by Israel and the US against Iran.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 20:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Screens display a news conference held by Federal Reserve chairman Kevin Warsh on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 20:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Enjoying Morning Wire online? Get tomorrow’s edition of AP’s free flagship newsletter delivered straight to your inbox before you start the day. Subscribe here.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 20:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: China wants Iran and the US to remain rational, exercise restraint and return to talks, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Beijing on Wednesday.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 19:59 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Iran-aligned Houthi fighters pose next to a captured vehicle following what the source described as an attack on Saudi-backed forces in the location given by the source as al Jawf governorate, Yemen, in this screengrab taken from a video released by Houthi Military Media on September 15, 2026.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 19:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Four years after Mahsa Amini was murdered by the Islamic Republic, sparking Iran’s ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protests, survivors of the 2022 uprising spoke to The Jerusalem Post about the young Kurdish woman’s enduring memory, what they witnessed during the crackdown and how the events changed their lives.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 19:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 19:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US has been underplaying the extent of the damage inflicted by Iran on its assets in the Middle East, according to new images obtained by CBS News.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 19:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Security chiefs in Iran responsible for crimes against humanity during a violent crackdown on nationwide protests in 2022 continue to control a “deadly state machinery of repression”, Amnesty International has said.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 19:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Camionetas participan en una masiva procesión funeraria por funcionarios hutíes y otros militares en Saná, Yemen, el 16 de septiembre de 2026. (AP Foto)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 19:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: An Iranian state-run media outlet claimed that one of its journalists, Naqqa Hamed, was arrested by Israeli forces near Bethlehem in the West Bank on Tuesday.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 19:00 UTC+10:00] [Global development] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Leaked documents and testimony reveal extent of regime’s crackdown in 2022 and how it paved the way for more brutal killings of protesters this year
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 18:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The renewed confrontation between Washington and Tehran is increasingly being fought not only through military pressure but through the energy market, where disruptions to Gulf exports are pushing oil prices higher, testing the resilience of regional economies and creating a growing domestic challenge for the United States ahead of November’s midterm elections.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 18:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This image taken from an undated video released Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026, by the Ansar Allah Media Office, the media arm of Yemen’s Houthi rebels, shows what the group says are Houthi fighters firing a weapon mounted on a pickup truck during combat with Saudi-backed forces in eastern Jawf, Yemen.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 18:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: SINGAPORE — Ukraine's sanctions envoy said Russia could be forced to retreat from the war within six months if its oil revenues are halved, as he pressed governments across Asia to shut down loopholes letting Russian tankers and weapons components slip through the region undetected.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 17:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US troops have leaked new images to CBS News capturing widespread destruction at American military bases across the Middle East from Iran’s missile and drone attacks.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 17:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US troops have leaked new images to CBS News capturing widespread destruction at American military bases across the Middle East from Iran’s missile and drone attacks.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 17:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The US House of Representatives passed a resolution on Tuesday designed to severely limit US military action in Iran, directing US President Donald Trump to remove all US Armed Forces from the Islamic Republic "other than those elements of the Armed Forces that may be necessary to defend [US and allies] from imminent attack."
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 17:14 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 17:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: For more than a month, the Houthis have been striking Saudi oil infrastructure and shipping in the Red Sea, stepping up pressure on global oil prices and boosting Iran’s leverage in its war with the United States. The Houthi advances have seemed to come with little resistance from Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 17:00 UTC+10:00] [Football] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Prolonged league suspension due to war and falling behind Saudi spending power are weakening the sport in Iran
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 16:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Civiles yemeníes celebran en la parte trasera de una camioneta en el distrito de Bani Matar, Yemen, el sábado 12 de septiembre de 2026, mientras siguen un convoy de prisioneros hutíes liberados en Moca camino de Saná, tras la toma hutí de la ciudad portuaria en el mar Rojo. (AP Foto/STR)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 16:32 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 16:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Saudi Arabia said Wednesday that its air defenses intercepted and destroyed a Houthi drone before it could enter the airspace over Mecca, with the Iran-backed Houthi militia group rejecting the claim as "an worn-out lie," as fighting reaches the holy city for the first time in the ongoing conflict.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 16:00 UTC+10:00] [History books] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: This story of Soviet agent and his MI6 handler in revolutionary Iran is a page-turning masterpiece
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 15:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: For a third time, the US House has voted to end the war in Iran, approving a war powers resolution that would halt President Donald Trump’s ability to continue military action without congressional approval.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 14:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Oil retreated Wednesday after a report said U.S. energy inventories rose last week, with investors assessing the latest developments in Middle East conflict and associated supply risks.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 14:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Americans overwhelmingly believe the Iran war has failed to achieve its goals, according to a new survey that also found support for Israel has undergone a dramatic reversal.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 13:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Kurdistan Freedom Party said that one of its headquarters was targeted in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq overnight. The attack took place at 11:45 p.m., the group said. Known as PAK, the Kurdistan Freedom Party is one of several Kurdish opposition groups in Iran.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[2026-09-16 13:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US Vice President JD Vance said the war with Iran will enter a “much different phase in a couple of months” in an interview with The New York Post on board Air Force Two on Monday.
--------------------------------------------------------------------