Topic: Iran — Neutral reports only
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[2026-09-03 10:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: White House envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with the UAE's national security adviser to discuss the next steps on Iran, according to Axios.
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[2026-09-03 10:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Allies of the US will support the country's efforts to "economically asphyxiate" Iran, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Tuesday morning.
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[2026-09-03 10:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Yonhap) -- Seoul shares opened higher Thursday, tracking overnight gains on Wall Street, while oil prices eased after U.S. President Donald Trump played down the prospect of a prolonged conflict with Iran.
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[2026-09-03 09:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Yet another major allegation against Russia has emerged this week in the pages of the London-based Financial Times, which says that Moscow has been helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles, in a clandestine program that has been ongoing throughout the war with the US and Israel.
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[2026-09-03 09:01 UTC+10:00] [Greenhouse gas emissions] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Oil consumption plummets and EV sales soar as analysts say demand may not fully return even if crude price falls
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[2026-09-03 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump is slated to host Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the White House, and the stakes are sky high — but some China watchers are once again keeping their expectations low.
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[2026-09-03 07:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States Senator Thom Tillis has called on President Donald Trump to fire Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth for creating a “leadership void” within the military amid the ongoing war with Iran.
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[2026-09-03 07:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said it "wouldn't be appropriate to say" if he would greenlight the CIA arming Iranians to encourage a violent uprising, a day after he asked on his TruthSocial account, "When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight?"
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[2026-09-03 06:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s mission in Iran is “not yet finished”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israeli media on Wednesday, adding that the intention is to “bring it down”.
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[2026-09-03 06:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-03 06:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: EL CAIRO (AP) — Un misil estadounidense impactó una vivienda del sur de Irán donde decenas de personas estaban reunidas para celebrar la boda de la hija de un pescador, según un grupo defensor de los derechos humanos y medios iraníes.
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[2026-09-03 06:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The NBA on Wednesday said it had suspended Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer for one year as part of a broad array of sanctions on the basketball team for violating the league's salary cap circumvention rules related to star player Kawhi Leonard.
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[2026-09-03 06:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has suggested renaming the Strait of Hormuz after himself, reasserting that the waterway is under Washington’s control despite near-daily Iranian attacks on ships in the area.
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[2026-09-03 06:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani spoke to his counterparts in Lebanon, Turkey and Egypt on Wednesday to discuss the latest regional tensions following renewed US strikes on Iran.
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[2026-09-03 05:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-09-03 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that a potential attack from Tehran would be "one of their last decisions," as he addressed the ongoing fighting in the Gaza Strip and threats from Iran during a visit to the Afiki Daat Hesder Yeshiva in Sderot on Wednesday.
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[2026-09-03 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US President Donald Trump warned that the US is prepared to strike Iran again at any time it wants after destroying newly rebuilt radar equipment along the Strait of Hormuz, during a White House press conference on Wednesday.
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[2026-09-03 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday that the renewed US campaign against Iran would not continue for "too long".
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[2026-09-03 04:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Amid new reports that Iran has broadened cyber attacks on the US, technology experts are warning that hacking is “perfectly suited to Iran's geopolitical situation”.
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[2026-09-03 04:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) has added a further 11 ships to its blacklist on Wednesday, barring the vessels from transiting through the Strait of Hormuz for “non-compliance” with its rules.
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[2026-09-03 03:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The Strait of Hormuz has effectively been closed since the start of the war in Iran (file photo)
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[2026-09-03 02:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The suggestion follows US president’s renaming of Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’, and comes despite the waterway remaining contested
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[2026-09-03 02:41 UTC+10:00] [Lake America] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The suggestion follows US president’s renaming of Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’, and comes despite the waterway remaining contested
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[2026-09-03 02:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: New reports emerged late Tuesday during the US cash session that the US military had struck targets inside Iran. If confirmed, the operation would mark a rare instance of US strikes occurring during regular market hours. Market(ing) tactics aside, the now six-month military campaign against Iran has also exposed a critical operational vulnerability: the US military is facing an alarming shortage of advanced missiles and interceptors.
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[2026-09-03 02:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres came under fire from watchdogs after he failed to publicly address the killing of protesters in January and executions carried out by the Iranian regime during a meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian earlier this week.
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[2026-09-03 02:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IRGC’s decision to target American bases, assets and allies, barring Israel, is part of a strategy to see the US knocked out of the region before any renewed war with Israel, military historian and analyst Tom Cooper told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.
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[2026-09-03 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump on Wednesday floated renaming the Strait of Hormuz — the central point of contention in the ongoing war against Iran that the U.S. and Israel started — after himself.
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[2026-09-03 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Tonight at 7pm ET, two prominent voices on opposite ends of the Iran debate will face off as constitutional lawyer and professor Alan Dershowitz debates the world’s most famous libertarian, Dave Smith, over the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.
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[2026-09-03 01:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that the US is a “source of regional insecurity” during a meeting with Hamas’s head of communications on Wednesday, according to Iran's Fars news agency.
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[2026-09-03 01:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian border guards seized a vessel with 382,000 litres of smuggled fuel in the northern Gulf, and arrested its foreign crew of 11, Iran's IRIB news agency reported on Wesnesday, without specifying their nationalities.
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[2026-09-03 01:19 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Blast also injures 68 guests at the wedding in southern Iran, prompting fears of escalation in hostilities
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[2026-09-03 01:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
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[2026-09-03 01:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Iran has threatened tankers attempting to sail through the Strait of Hormuz without authorisation, impeding energy exports from the Gulf
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[2026-09-03 01:10 UTC+10:00] [Jordan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Iran has threatened tankers attempting to sail through the Strait of Hormuz without authorisation, impeding energy exports from the Gulf
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[2026-09-03 01:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The bloc underscores members’ rights to peaceful nuclear development in broader pushback at Western powers, analyst says
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[2026-09-03 01:00 UTC+10:00] [Pakistan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The bloc underscores members’ rights to peaceful nuclear development in broader pushback at Western powers, analyst says
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[2026-09-03 00:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-09-03 00:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Oil prices were volatile but are trading around unchanged this morning, but still near the highest closing level in five weeks (WTI topped $92 overnight) as hostilities broke out again between the US and Iran, renewing the threat to energy exports from the Middle East.
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[2026-09-03 00:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar warned that Israel would retaliate should the UK imposed sanctions over illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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[2026-09-03 00:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: On his second visit to Israel in months, Amir Heshmatpour, the Iranian-born, LA-based CEO of Nasdaq-listed NeOnc Technologies, sits down with Jerusalem Post news editor Alex Winston to describe the two cancers he says he's fighting at once: the disease itself and the regime in Tehran.
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[2026-09-02 23:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Ryanair said Wednesday that it would reduce its winter schedule in Europe as the Irish no-frills airline and other carriers come up against higher fuel costs caused by the US-Iran war.
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[2026-09-02 23:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Iran is assessing the aftermath in terms of casualties and damage in the wake of the new flare-up in fighting, after the US launched a series of deadly attacks on the Islamic Republic Tuesday, focused in the south and Hormuz Strait area, and Tehran in expected fashion retaliated with drone-and-missile strikes against Gulf nations and Jordan.
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[2026-09-02 23:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The pro-Iranian Explosive Media Group has released a Lego-style AI animation showing a deadly US strike on a wedding in southern Iran that killed five civilians, including a child, according to the Iranian authorities.
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[2026-09-02 22:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran carried out a number of attacks on the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq as clashes with the US escalated overnight. The Iranian attacks fit a pattern going back to February. Iran has sought to spread the war to Iraq and other countries via attacks. It has often singled out the Kurdistan Region for attacks.
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[2026-09-02 22:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Unas aves a la orilla de la playa y al fondo buques comerciales anclados en el estrecho de Ormuz, en las costas de Bandar Abbas, Irán, el miércoles 2 de septiembre de 2026. (Razieh Poudat/ISNA vía AP)
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[2026-09-02 21:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: More than 17 million barrels of oil transited the Strait of Hormuz by ship on Monday, a record since the Iran war began in late February, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told CNBC in an interview Wednesday.
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[2026-09-02 21:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran has launched missiles and drones at US military facilities across the region in retaliation for American attacks that killed at least 18 people in the country on Tuesday.
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[2026-09-02 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Analysts say while India could act as a potential bridge in engaging parties locked in conflict, ensuring a resolution works will be harder
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[2026-09-02 21:35 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Analysts say while India could act as a potential bridge in engaging parties locked in conflict, ensuring a resolution works will be harder
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[2026-09-02 21:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US embassy in Saudi Arabia has warned Americans in the kingdom to take precautions over intensification of Iran war.
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