Topic: Iran — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-05 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US lawmakers have intensified efforts to strip President Donald Trump of the authority to continue the Iran war launched by the US and Israel in February, after the 60-day deadline for military operations without congressional approval expired on May 1.
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[2026-05-05 01:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has accused China of “funding the largest state sponsor of terrorism”, referring to Iran, saying that Beijing should help Washington in efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-05-05 01:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United Arab Emirates has said its air defences are engaging with missile attacks and incoming drones from Iran.
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[2026-05-05 01:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A fire has broken out in an Emirati petroleum industrial site following a drone attack from Iran, according to the UAE’s Fujairah media office.
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[2026-05-05 01:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The United Arab Emirates said Monday it successfully intercepted multiple missiles fired from Iran.
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[2026-05-05 01:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has hit a brick wall with Iran.
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[2026-05-05 01:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Trump administration has been cracking down on a handful of Iranian residents who have ties to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and have even allegedly been involved in gun-running while living lavish lifestyles in LA. That may leave the impression that this community might not support attempts to overthrow the Islamic Republic.
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[2026-05-05 00:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has denied that two merchant vessels crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, calling the claims from US Central Command “baseless and complete lies”.
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[2026-05-05 00:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: “I have all the cards,” posted the White House on its X account on Sunday, alongside an image of President Donald Trump holding playing cards from the Uno game, in a message appearing to signal Washington’s confidence in its ongoing war on Iran.
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[2026-05-05 00:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Live updates: Follow the latest news on Iran war
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[2026-05-05 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: From a possible Trump-Iran joint venture to Russia-China talks, here are highlights from the SCMP’s overseas correspondents in April 2026
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[2026-05-05 00:30 UTC+10:00] [India] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: From a possible Trump-Iran joint venture to Russia-China talks, here are highlights from the SCMP’s overseas correspondents in April 2026
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[2026-05-05 00:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The United Kingdom's government and law enforcement have all but admitted that the Iranian Islamic regime has been behind a spate of recent attacks against Jewish, Israeli, and Iranian dissident sites in the country, but have skirted around directly attributing them to Iran or even saying the Islamic Republic's name.
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[2026-05-05 00:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Air travel in the Gulf is ramping up amid a ceasefire between the US and Iran.
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[2026-05-05 00:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy issued a new map of the area of the Strait of Hormuz under its control on Monday, state media reported.
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[2026-05-05 00:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The United Arab Emirates has issued urgent warnings about a surge in AI-powered cyber threats and disinformation campaigns linked to Iran, citing increased risks during a period of heightened regional tensions.
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[2026-05-05 00:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, who was taken from jail to hospital last week, requires urgent specialized medical care to treat a life-threatening heart condition, her brother told Reuters on Monday.
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[2026-05-05 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A $1 billion project to build an advanced US military hospital in Ramstein, Germany is suddenly in the public eye. Scheduled to open next year, there are now doubts about its future. Its role could be made redundant should there be drastic changes in US deployments in the country and around Europe.
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[2026-05-04 23:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iranian rescue workers dug through debris by hand to recover religious artifacts from a Tehran synagogue damaged by an Israeli strike last month, Marjan Yeshayayi, a member of the local Jewish community, has told RT.
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[2026-05-04 23:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Iranian rescue workers dug through debris by hand to recover religious artifacts from a Tehran synagogue damaged by an Israeli strike last month, Marjan Yeshayayi, a member of the local Jewish community, has told RT.
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[2026-05-04 23:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: An Iranian tugboat floats in the foreground as cargo ships sit at anchor in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Monday, May 4, 2026. (Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP)
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[2026-05-04 23:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: A top White House official has said Iran is on the brink of an “extreme calamity” and hunger as the US is counting on economic pressure to secure its objectives in the conflict.
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[2026-05-04 23:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: A top White House official has said Iran is on the brink of an “extreme calamity” and hunger as the US is counting on economic pressure to secure its objectives in the conflict.
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[2026-05-04 23:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: As diplomats convene in New York from 27 April to 22 May for the latest session of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) Review Conference, its credibility is under unprecedented strain, Former Chief of Iran's National Security and Foreign Relations Committee Seyed Hossein Mousavian writes for Middle East Eye.
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[2026-05-04 23:28 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-05-04 23:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran says it fired missiles at US warship to prevent it entering Hormuz
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[2026-05-04 23:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has said Washington will guide ships stranded in the Strait of Hormuz to safety – in an initiative dubbed “Project Freedom” – signalling a potential challenge to Iran’s blockade of the strategic waterway.
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[2026-05-04 23:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: U.S. Central Command on Monday denied claims from Iranian state media that a U.S. warship transiting the Strait of Hormuz was struck by two missiles and forced to retreat.
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[2026-05-04 22:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Global economies could be "sleepwalking" into a "big recession", as investors continue to underplay the impact of the oil price shock, Amrita Sen, founder and director, market intelligence at Energy Aspect, told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" on Monday.
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[2026-05-04 22:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Iran said on Monday that ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz must coordinate with Iranian authorities, after the United States announced an effort to open the strait.
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[2026-05-04 22:43 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Hangings are latest in wave of near-daily killings as authorities seek to instil fear amid war with US and Israel
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[2026-05-04 22:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US futures whipsawed and crude oil spiked higher as tensions flared up again in the Middle East, taking the focus off a run of strong earnings by megacap tech companies. As of 8:00am ET, S&P and Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 0.2% from Friday's record highs, falling as much as 0.5% just minutes earlier after Iran’s Fars agency claimed two missiles hit an American patrol boat, before erasing most of the declines after the US denied a ship was hit.
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[2026-05-04 22:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: CENTCOM hails two US merchant ships exiting Hormuz Strait safely in "first step".
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[2026-05-04 22:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: President Donald Trump has announced that the US will help "guide" ships which have been stranded by Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-05-04 21:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Live updates: Follow the latest news on Iran war
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[2026-05-04 21:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Though tempered by the prospect of additional GOP gerrymandering of House districts in the wake of a pivotal Supreme Court decision, Democrats' hopes for a rout of Republicans in the approaching midterm elections are rising after a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll found that President Trump's disapproval rating is now the highest of either of his two terms in office.
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[2026-05-04 21:42 UTC+10:00] [US politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Cole Allen remains in custody after being charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump
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[2026-05-04 21:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The United Arab Emirates have condemned Iran’s attack on a tanker from the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) attempting to cross through the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-05-04 21:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Cheap, mass-produced one-way drones have played a major role in the conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran since the first attacks on Tehran on February 28. As Iran uses these drones to target energy facilities, airbases and other strategic sites across the Gulf and Israel, the US and Israel use expensive interceptor missiles for defence.
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[2026-05-04 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: Aaron Boxerman and Sanam Mahoozi
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[2026-05-04 20:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: A US Navy patrol boat has been hit by two Iranian missiles not far from the Strait of Hormuz after it ignored warnings to stay out of the critical waterway, Fars News Agency has reported. It claimed that the boat was “forced to retreat,” without providing information on the damage.
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[2026-05-04 20:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: A US Navy patrol boat has been hit by two Iranian missiles not far from the Strait of Hormuz after it ignored warnings to stay out of the critical waterway, Fars News Agency has reported. It claimed that the boat was “forced to retreat,” without providing information on the damage.
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[2026-05-04 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Raz Zimmt said in an interview with 103FM that despite reports suggesting Iran may be willing to compromise and extend limits on uranium enrichment, Tehran continues to condition any discussion of its nuclear program on ending the war, lifting the blockade, and the withdrawal of US forces, meaning the core obstacle remains unresolved and no breakthrough has been achieved.
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[2026-05-04 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Two missiles launched by the Iranian Navy hit a United States Navy frigate, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-aligned Fars News Agency reported on Monday afternoon, citing local sources.
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[2026-05-04 20:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Iran claimed Monday to have struck an American naval vessel on the first day of a bid by Washington to force open the Strait of Hormuz to global shipping.
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[2026-05-04 20:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Soaring diesel prices linked to the Iran war are accelerating a continent‑wide shift in Africa’s telecom industry, pushing operators to replace fuel‑hungry generators with solar‑powered systems to keep mobile networks running and costs under control.
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[2026-05-04 20:00 UTC+10:00] [Ohio] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Trump’s war in Iran, gas prices and corruption dominate messaging as special election nears to fill Senate seat
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[2026-05-04 19:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Live updates: Follow the latest news on Iran war
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[2026-05-04 19:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran warns Trump’s mission to ‘guide’ ships out of Hormuz violates ceasefire
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[2026-05-04 19:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards spokesperson said on Monday that any ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz in violation of the Iranian blockade will be met with military force.
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