Topic: Iran — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-19 23:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US War Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday that the United States' objectives in the war against Iran have not changed since strikes started on 28 February.
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[2026-03-19 23:25 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Conflict has also hit global fertiliser supplies, prompting Manila to seek assurances that Beijing would continue exports
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[2026-03-19 23:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: China said on Thursday that peaceful reunification with Taiwan would help ease the island’s energy supply risks stemming from the Israeli-US war on Iran, according to Al Jazeera.
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[2026-03-19 23:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Tehran has effectively acknowledged Ukraine as a legitimate military target. Ibrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security Commission, made this statement in a post on X. The next day, Iran’s Foreign Ministry accused Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky of involvement in the conflict. In diplomatic terms, this indicates that Tehran aligns Kiev’s actions with those of the aggressors: the US and Israel.
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[2026-03-19 23:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Tehran has effectively acknowledged Ukraine as a legitimate military target. Ibrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security Commission, made this statement in a post on X. The next day, Iran’s Foreign Ministry accused Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky of involvement in the conflict. In diplomatic terms, this indicates that Tehran aligns Kiev’s actions with those of the aggressors: the US and Israel.
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[2026-03-19 23:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: From Venezuela to the Middle East, this is gangsterism fused with colonialism. It repudiates the moral language through which US power once justified itself
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[2026-03-19 22:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: A pregnant Palestinian woman died on Thursday in the occupied West Bank from shrapnel wounds sustained after an Iranian missile attack, bringing the death toll from the incident to four, the Ramallah-based health ministry said.
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[2026-03-19 22:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El canciller de Alemania, Friedrich Merz, a la derecha, y el presidente de Francia, Emmanuel Macron, caminan juntos a su llegada para la cumbre de la UE en el edificio del Consejo Europeo en Bruselas, el jueves 19 de marzo de 2026. (AP Foto/Omar Havana)
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[2026-03-19 22:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: As the United States-Israeli war on Iran approaches its fourth week after unleashing chaos across the Middle East, foreign ministers from Arab and Muslim countries have convened for urgent discussions in Saudi Arabia.
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[2026-03-19 22:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump greets Col. Matha “Jeannie” Sasnett, commander of Air Force Mortuary Affairs, as he arrives on Air Force One, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del., to attend the casualty return for the six crew members of an Air Force refueling aircraft who died when their plane crashed in western Iraq while supporting operations against Iran.
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[2026-03-19 22:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran's intelligence ministry has arrested 97 people for being "soldiers of Israel", state media reported on Thursday, in the latest round of a security sweep that has seen hundreds detained over alleged linked to Israel and the US since the start of the war.
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[2026-03-19 22:25 UTC+10:00] [US news] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Anger grows after a closed-door briefing from attorney general where she refused to commit to testify under oath despite subpoena
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[2026-03-19 22:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Pentagon is seeking more than $200 billion from Congress to fund the Iran war, the Washington Post reports, citing a senior administration official and sources familiar with the matter.
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[2026-03-19 22:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Benchmark Brent oil prices jumped above $119 a barrel on Thursday after Iran attacked energy facilities across the Middle East following Israel’s strike on its South Pars gas field, a major escalation in the war.
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[2026-03-19 22:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: In March 1986 Sayyid Ali Khamenei, who would three years later become Iran’s supreme leader, gave a speech at a major conference in Tehran on the Indian poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal.
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[2026-03-19 22:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Joe Kent, the former Trump administration intelligence official who resigned this week in protest of the war in Iran, is being investigated by the FBI. The probe predates Kent’s departure as director of the National Counterterrorism Center and centers on allegations he improperly shared classified information, Semafor reported on Wednesday.
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[2026-03-19 22:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Report shows how minerals critical to defense readiness have seen a ‘near total’ disruption in seaborne trade
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[2026-03-19 21:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Gaza's Rafah border crossing with Egypt partially reopened Thursday for the first time since Israel and the United States launched strikes on Iran, allowing a small number of Palestinian patients to leave the devastated enclave and stranded travelers to return.
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[2026-03-19 21:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Oman's foreign minister has called for the US to extricate itself from the war in Iran, describing the Islamic Republic's attacks on Gulf states as an "inevitable" reaction to the assault.
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[2026-03-19 21:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Esmaeil Baghaei is a spokesperson for Iran's foreign ministry and a deputy foreign minister.
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[2026-03-19 21:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Reports of Republican fractures over President Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran have been greatly exaggerated, according to a new poll shared exclusively with The Post Thursday.
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[2026-03-19 21:30 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: DUBAI (AP) — Iran intensified its attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbors' energy sites Thursday, hitting a Saudi refinery on the Red Sea and setting Qatari liquefied natural gas facilities and two Kuwaiti oil refineries ablaze as it struck back following an Israeli attack on its main natural gas field, a major escalation in the Mideast war that has sent global fuel prices soaring.
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[2026-03-19 21:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del., to attend the casualty return for the six crew members of an Air Force refueling aircraft who died when their plane crashed in western Iraq while supporting operations against Iran. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-03-19 21:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Islamabad, Pakistan – The United States’s top intelligence official has placed Pakistan alongside Russia, China, North Korea and Iran as a country whose advancing missile capabilities could eventually put US territory within reach.
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[2026-03-19 21:24 UTC+10:00] [Opinion] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-03-19 21:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: China is clamping down on fertiliser exports to protect its domestic market, a number of industry sources said, putting an additional strain on global markets that were already grappling with shortages caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-03-19 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Fire damage and plumbing issues on the USS Gerald R. Ford suggest an overstretched military and ‘hollowed out’ industrial base, analysts say
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[2026-03-19 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian lawmakers have proposed a plan to impose tolls and taxes on ships passing through the strategic Strait of Hormuz, local media reported on Thursday.
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[2026-03-19 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US will ”massively blow up” Iran’s South Pars gas field if Tehran continues strikes on Qatari energy facilities, President Donald Trump has warned. South Pars – shared with Qatar, where it is known as the North Field – is the world’s largest natural gas field.
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[2026-03-19 21:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Now, the total is likely to have exceeded $18bn and counting. Where are America’s war dollars going, in a war that was never declared in the first place?
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[2026-03-19 20:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Iran's strikes are pushing Gulf states toward a breaking point, forcing a choice between restraint and retaliation.
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[2026-03-19 20:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday hosted a U.S. envoy for talks in the Belarus capital of Minsk, the latest step in the isolated leader’s effort to improve ties with the West.
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[2026-03-19 20:33 UTC+10:00] [World Cup 2026] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Video released of federation president Mehdi Taj
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[2026-03-19 20:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: LONDRES (AP) — La policía británica acusó a dos hombres de espiar a la comunidad judía del Reino Unido en nombre de Irán.
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[2026-03-19 20:23 UTC+10:00] [Oil] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Month-ahead UK wholesale gas price hits highest level since August 2022 as Donald Trump threatens retaliation
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[2026-03-19 20:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: LONDON (AP) — British police have charged two men with spying on the U.K.’s Jewish community on behalf of Iran.
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[2026-03-19 20:17 UTC+10:00] [Singapore] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Iran war has underscored the need for robust air systems and Manila should look to build a layered defence architecture, experts say
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[2026-03-19 20:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: South Korea and Japan are facing uncomfortable questions about their mutual defensive obligations as the United States seeks support from its allies in the war on Iran, now nearly three weeks in and escalating by the day.
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[2026-03-19 20:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El primer ministro de Holanda, Rob Jetten, llega a la cumbre de la UE en el edificio del Consejo Europeo en Bruselas, el jueves 19 de marzo de 2026. (AP Foto/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
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[2026-03-19 20:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Coffins draped in Iranian flags were paraded through central Tehran streets on trucks, as mourners waved portraits and banners proclaiming vengeance. The ceremony, broadcast live by state television, marked one of the largest public gatherings in Iran since the conflict escalated in late February 2026. Among those commemorated were Ali Larijani, Iran’s national security chief, killed in an Israeli airstrike near Tehran, Gholamreza Soleimani, Basij paramilitary commander, and 84 sailors from the frigate IRIS Dena, torpedoed by a US submarine
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[2026-03-19 20:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Gold and silver joined a broad sell-off on Thursday, with the metals shedding 2% and 5.5% as fears about the Iran war and inflation gripped global markets.
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[2026-03-19 19:56 UTC+10:00] [World news] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Hungarian PM, who is facing an upcoming election, appears in no mood to compromise as EU leaders meet in Brussels this morning
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[2026-03-19 19:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Iran intensified its attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbors’ energy infrastructure Thursday, setting Qatari liquefied natural gas facilities and two Kuwaiti oil refineries ablaze as it hit back following an Israeli attack on its main natural gas field, a major escalation in the Middle East war that has sent global fuel prices soaring.
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[2026-03-19 19:53 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Treasurer Jim Chalmers warned the Iran war is threatening to drive inflation towards 5 per cent and wipe billions of dollars from Australia, but said it was why he would deliver bold budget reforms.In a pre-budget speech this afternoon, Chalmers said new Treasury scenarios forecast inflation to reach from high 4 per cent if oil prices stay at $US100 a barrel to 5.5 per cent if prices continue to rise to $US120."It means the prospect of inflation peaking in the
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[2026-03-19 19:42 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-03-19 19:35 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
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[2026-03-19 19:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Netherland’s Prime Minister Rob Jetten arrives for the EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
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[2026-03-19 19:30 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: As the conflict threatens Asian economies, the best protected are those that can leverage import diversification and energy independence
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[2026-03-19 19:27 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Kremlin confirms a halt in negotiations, as Izvestia claims the Middle East crisis could force Ukraine towards territorial compromise
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[2026-03-19 19:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US will “massively blow up” the South Pars gas field – the world’s largest – if Iran continues to strike Qatari energy facilities, President Donald Trump has warned.
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