Topic: Iran — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-05 10:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s armed forces have decided to add two major power stations in Israel to their target bank, Tasnim news agency reported, citing military sources.
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[2026-04-05 10:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: President Donald Trump said “time is running out” for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz ahead of his 6 April deadline, warning of consequences if Tehran fails to act. The remarks come as tensions remain high over access to the key global shipping route.
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[2026-04-05 10:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
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[2026-04-05 10:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, United States — President Donald Trump said Saturday that Tehran had 48 hours left to cut a deal or face "all Hell", as US and Iranian forces scrambled to find a downed American airman.
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[2026-04-05 10:09 UTC+10:00] [World / Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Berlin/London: When Iceal Hambleton, a US air force navigator, was shot down over Vietnam more than half a century ago, any hopes of a swift rescue were quickly dashed.
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[2026-04-05 10:03 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Robert Fico said ending sanctions on Russian energy imports would help tackle the energy crisis stemming from the war in Iran. What we know on day 1,502
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[2026-04-05 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Half of the fleet is already docked as the fishing association warns the whole sector may ‘collapse like dominoes’
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[2026-04-05 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Half of the fleet is already docked as the fishing association warns the whole sector may ‘collapse like dominoes’
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[2026-04-05 10:00 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: A temporary halving of fuel taxes by the federal government has helped bring down soaring retail fuel prices, which have dropped about 30c per litre for unleaded petrol in recent days. Source: AAP / Joel Carrett
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[2026-04-05 09:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s atomic agency said it will take legal action over the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief’s "inaction" following US-Israeli strikes on its nuclear facilities, state media reported.
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[2026-04-05 09:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: At least 30 universities in Iran have been affected by US-Israeli attacks since the start of the war on 28 February, the country’s science minister Hossein Simaei Saraf said.
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[2026-04-05 08:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: An influential oil industry trade association has lit a flame underneath Gov. Gavin Newsom for blaming soaring gas prices solely on the Trump Administration’s war in Iran.
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[2026-04-05 08:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The last several days have seen a limited number of foreign vessels successfully and safely cross the Strait of Hormuz for the first time, amid the ongoing de facto military blockage by Iran.
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[2026-04-05 08:36 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Welcome to our rolling coverage of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and reaction in Australia on Sunday, April 5.
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[2026-04-05 08:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli military says it has carried out more than 200 air strikes over the weekend targeting sites in Iran and Lebanon.
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[2026-04-05 07:59 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: The Iranian capital of Tehran has suffered heavy US and Israeli airstrikes since late February, but the country's leaders remain defiant, characterising a recent ultimatum from the US president as "a helpless, nervous, unbalanced and stupid action". Source: AFP / Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto
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[2026-04-05 07:55 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Suburbs where house values rose most in the past 12 months.
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[2026-04-05 07:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: 18-year-old Nadav woke to the sound of a siren echoing across Jerusalem. The American high school student had been napping when Iran launched a barrage of missiles.
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[2026-04-05 07:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Just days after the killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Naz - a London-based artist and TikToker of Iranian descent - appeared in a music video celebrating the dictator’s death. The song quickly became an early cultural response to what was widely seen as a pivotal moment in Iran and the broader region, drawing hundreds of thousands of views on Instagram within its first 24 hours.
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[2026-04-05 07:44 UTC+10:00] [Scam of the Week] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: by Michael West | Apr 5, 2026 | Scam of the Week
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[2026-04-05 06:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Yemen’s Houthi movement has claimed it carried out a joint military operation with Iranian forces and Hezbollah targeting sites in Israel, including Ben Gurion Airport.
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[2026-04-05 06:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: MONTEVIDEO (AP) — El consejero y encargado de negocios interino de Irán en Argentina, Mohsen Soltani Tehrani, abandonó Buenos Aires el sábado, antes que venza el plazo de 48 horas que le había sido otorgado por el gobierno del presidente Javier Milei, alineado a Estados Unidos e Israel en política exterior.
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[2026-04-05 06:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni addresses the Senate regarding the conflict in Iran and the Gulf region, in Rome, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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[2026-04-05 06:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Indonesia has received the bodies of three United Nations peacekeepers who were killed in southern Lebanon during Israel’s invasion of the country, amid the ongoing United States-Israel war on Iran.
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[2026-04-05 06:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The Trump administration is rounding up family members of notable Iranian government figures, accusing them of spreading 'pro-Tehran propaganda'. And apparently this is even if the Iranian officials in question are deceased.
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[2026-04-05 06:10 UTC+10:00] [Latest] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.
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[2026-04-05 05:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-04-05 05:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Since the start of the Iran conflict, oil prices have skyrocketed, and many cruise passengers are worrying they’ll be slapped with extra surcharges related to the fuel issues in the next months as a result.
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[2026-04-05 05:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TEL AVIV, Israel — Carrying anti-war banners and chanting slogans against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hundreds of Israelis rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest the war with Iran.
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[2026-04-05 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The war that erupted on February 28, 2026, when the United States and Israel launched strikes against the Islamic Republic’s military and nuclear infrastructure, marks the collapse of a secular illusion: the belief that a revolutionary Islamic state behaves like a Westphalian bureaucracy, driven by state interest and strategic calculation, rather than pursuing a project that seeks to overturn the existing order.
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[2026-04-05 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The main assumption behind China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is that economic connectivity can be insulated from geopolitics. The war with Iran is not just a regional conflict; it strikes at the structural heart of the BRI vision by showing that the BRI corridors are deeply impacted by regional security shocks.
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[2026-04-05 05:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Rights groups say video appeared online showing children wearing camouflage uniforms and carrying assault rifles. (Supplied)
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[2026-04-05 05:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Tehran, Iran – Inside the sprawling Shahid Beheshti University in northern Tehran, a research centre lies in ruins after warplanes bombed it.
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[2026-04-05 05:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Iran's resilience after more than a month of very heavy US-Israeli bombing has become obvious. The country's somewhat ancient air force and navy have been largely obliterated, and yet all the while the Iranian military has kept up intense ballistic missile and drone strikes on Israel and Gulf states. Tehran's missile arsenal is what is understood to have always been formidable.
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[2026-04-05 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Black market cigarette prices have soared up to 50 per cent as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a series of major seizures and worsening violence in the nationwide tobacco war squeezes local supplies and leads to price gouging.
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[2026-04-05 04:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Polymarket removed a forum related to the rescue mission of U.S. military servicemembers amid political pressure, the latest sign of mounting scrutiny around prediction markets.
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[2026-04-05 04:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Iran’s reign of terror lives on.
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[2026-04-05 04:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El secretario de Estado de estados Unidos, Marco Rubio, habla con la prensa después de una reunión de ministros del G7 con países socios en el aeropuerto Bourget en Le Bourget, en las afueras de París, el viernes 27 de marzo de 2026. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool Foto vía AP)
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[2026-04-05 04:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US President Donald Trump repeated his threats to intensify attacks on Iran if it failed to reach a deal or open the key Strait of Hormuz waterway on Saturday.
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[2026-04-05 03:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has met Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha to discuss the energy crisis due to the ongoing United States and Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-04-05 03:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States has revoked the permanent residency of two women related to Qassem Soleimani, the late major general who led Iran’s Quds Force, the foreign branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), from 1998 until his assassination in 2020.
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[2026-04-05 03:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A US F-15E fighter jet that was flying over the southwest of the country on Friday has been shot down, US media has reported.
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[2026-04-05 03:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter, who were allegedly living a ‘lavish lifestyle’ in Los Angeles, have had their green cards revoked
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[2026-04-05 03:01 UTC+10:00] [Los Angeles] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter, who were allegedly living a ‘lavish lifestyle’ in Los Angeles, have had their green cards revoked
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[2026-04-05 03:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has revoked the green cards or US visas of at least four Iranian nationals connected to the current or former Iranian government, including two who have been detained by immigration authorities and are to be deported.
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[2026-04-05 02:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US federal agents have arrested the niece and grand-niece of late Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked their lawful permanent resident status, the State Department said on Saturday.
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[2026-04-05 02:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks on as he speaks to the press following a G7 Foreign Ministers’ meeting with Partner Countries at the Bourget airport in Le Bourget, outside Paris, Friday, March 27, 2026. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool Photo via AP)
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[2026-04-05 02:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The area around Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant has been attacked for the fourth time during the current war, Iranian officials say, as the US and Israel continue to target energy and other industrial sites.
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[2026-04-05 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump on Friday asked lawmakers to approve a massive $1.5-trillion defense budget for 2027, as the United States faces rising costs from its war with Iran and mounting global security commitments.
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[2026-04-05 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — China is stepping up its diplomacy on the Iran war, putting forward a five-point proposal with Pakistan, rallying support from Gulf countries, and opposing a United Nations proposal to use any force necessary to open the Strait of Hormuz.
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