Topic: Iran — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-24 16:14 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Delegations from Burundi and Uganda visited Israel to discuss joining Donald Trump’s International Stabilisation Force
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[2026-08-24 16:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Hello, this is Leonie Kidd coming to you from London.
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[2026-08-24 15:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iraq’s new prime minister Ali al-Zaidi was supposed to rein in the Iranian-backed militias in Iraq. For years the militias have carried out hundreds of attacks on US forces, kidnapped journalists and researchers, assassinated Iraqis, attacked the Kurdistan Region and attacked embassies and consulates.
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[2026-08-24 15:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Oman's Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi will visit Tehran on Tuesday to continue talks between Iran and Oman on the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday.
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[2026-08-24 15:42 UTC+10:00] [US immigration] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Joshua Aviles says he is on a nine-month Middle East deployment and learned his has father has been arrested while he was waiting for green card approval
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[2026-08-24 15:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Singapore inflation missed estimates even as it accelerated to a near two-year high in July, as higher energy prices due to the Iran war lifted electricity prices.
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[2026-08-24 14:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
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[2026-08-24 14:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Fewer than 20 commodity vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz at the weekend, shipping data showed on Monday, as Iranian and US blockades restrict traffic through the chokepoint for energy shipments.
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[2026-08-24 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The classic game of Battleships requires you to guess where your opponent’s ships are located in order to sink them. A more deadly version is playing out in the Strait of Hormuz now. Oil is getting out – but is it enough to pry open Iran’s strangulation?
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[2026-08-24 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Last week, US President Donald Trump said his administration will launch against Iran “the most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country”. The details of this “operation” are yet to be fully revealed, but it is designed to make the economic cost of confrontation impossible for Tehran to ignore as the war nears its six-month mark.
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[2026-08-24 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The Iran war has done little to cool energy demand despite the conflict snarling up global supply chains, Mitsubishi Power's chief executive for Europe, the Middle East and Africa has said.
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[2026-08-24 12:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: The new head of Iran's top security body warned Sunday that Tehran will see any country's support for new U.S. economic measures against the Islamic Republic as an "act of war," while Iran's president defended a memorandum of understanding with the United States as the best way out of the stalled conflict.
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[2026-08-24 12:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The U.S will unveil "the single greatest financial offensive ever" against Iran on Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, while Tehran threatened to seize vessels that violate transit rules in the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-08-24 12:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Trita Parsi via Antiwar.com, reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi's Substack.
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[2026-08-24 11:45 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: IRAN. An Iranian woman walks past an anti-US billboard in Tehran, Iran, February 26, 2026.
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[2026-08-24 11:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Hello, this is Hui Jie writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to another edition of CNBC's Daily Open.
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[2026-08-24 11:14 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: August 24, 2026 11:14 | News
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[2026-08-24 11:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: "At dawn begins an economic D-Day [against Iran], the single greatest financial offensive ever marshalled against an adversary," US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote in an opinion piece in the Financial Times on Sunday, echoing US President Donald Trump's statements on Truth Social last week.
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[2026-08-24 10:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Oil prices fell Monday as investors awaited details of what Washington has billed as its toughest-ever sanctions campaign against Iran, while Tehran dismissed the threat of intensified economic pressure.
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[2026-08-24 10:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
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[2026-08-24 09:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Greece has moved a Patriot air defense battery to Crete following threats by senior Iranian officials against US bases in Europe, Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported on Sunday.
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[2026-08-24 08:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-24 08:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-24 08:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A French official said agreements, on health, transport and energy, will be signed on Monday alongside talks likely to focus on Iran
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[2026-08-24 08:31 UTC+10:00] [SNJ-CGT] [Factuality: 92]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: A French official said agreements, on health, transport and energy, will be signed on Monday alongside talks likely to focus on Iran
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[2026-08-24 08:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-24 07:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will hold a press conference Monday to announce sanctions against Iran that he described to CNBC as the greatest campaign of "coordinated economic isolation in the history of the world."
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[2026-08-24 06:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-24 05:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian parliament advanced a provision in a draft law on Sunday allowing Tehran to charge ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-08-24 05:44 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Tom Barrack had said Israel ‘still’ occupies the territory but on Sunday said that was a description of the Golan Heights’ historical status
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[2026-08-24 05:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, said on Sunday that the United States is entering “a new phase” in the war with Iran. “I think we’re going to get into a new phase here very soon. I believe our allied nations are going to assist in the next phase, and we’ll get this finished,” Johnson said in an interview on Fox News.
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[2026-08-24 03:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Mike Johnson, speaker of the United States House of Representatives, says he is confident that his Republican Party will retain control of the chamber despite the unpopularity of the war on Iran.
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[2026-08-24 03:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country was facing “an all-out economic, military and security war”, as the US prepares to announce new sanctions.
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[2026-08-24 02:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-24 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Iran's top civilian officials are publicly urging an end to the ongoing conflict with the United States, exposing a deepening internal rift as they attempt to rein in hardliners who champion continued resistance.
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[2026-08-24 01:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Over 100 former French and British ambassadors called on France and the United Kingdom to "uphold international law in Palestine" and impose sanctions on Israel for its actions in Gaza and the West Bank in an open letter published on Sunday in Le Monde.
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[2026-08-24 01:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Jonathan Turley,
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[2026-08-24 01:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: When millions of Iranians took to the streets in January, one name repeatedly rang out among protesters: Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.
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[2026-08-24 00:46 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Incident marks apparent escalation by Tehran in its in retaliation against UK over allowing US to use British bases
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[2026-08-24 00:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The attempted suicide of a worker dismissed from one of Iran’s petrochemical companies in Mahshahr on Tuesday has exposed the growing divide between the “military men” controlling the country and Iranian civilians, an expert told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
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[2026-08-24 00:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has vowed to hit Iran hard economically, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that Washington would impose measures on Tehran that have "never been seen" as soon as next week.
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[2026-08-23 23:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran has discovered over 7.5 trillion cubic feet of gas in a field south of its Fars Province, the country's oil minister, Mohsen Paknejad, said in comments carried by state media on Sunday.
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[2026-08-23 22:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Last week, Azerbaijan filed a lawsuit against CNN in a US federal court over what it describes as false and defamatory reporting about its role in the 2026 Iran conflict. CNN alleged that Israel had deployed military and intelligence personnel to Azerbaijan and used Azerbaijani territory for operations against Iran.
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[2026-08-23 22:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: A small-scale British power plant was taken offline because of a cyber attack, with UK authorities blaming an Iranian-linked hacking group, The Telegraph reported on Saturday.
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[2026-08-23 22:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Georgia officially refused to implement the EU's newest sanctions against Iran, Interpress news reported on this week, with Tengiz Sharmanashvili, a member of parliament for the ruling Georgian Dream party, saying Tbilisi backs international measures only when they serve Georgian interests.
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[2026-08-23 21:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran has threatened to retaliate against any country that joins the United States’ “economic war” against it, as diplomatic efforts to end the months-long war have stalled and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has drastically decreased.
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[2026-08-23 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: A small power plant in the U.K. was shut down for four days in July following a cyberattack carried out by hackers linked to Iran, The Telegraph newspaper reported Sunday.
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[2026-08-23 21:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: At a moment of the ongoing Iran conflict, Israel and Turkey are escalating their competing claims and rhetoric over Syria, to the point that full-blown war is being threatened.
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[2026-08-23 21:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: From the start of the 14-year civil war in Syria until the fall of the Assad regime in 2024, the country's airspace was essentially a no-fly zone for the vast majority of the world's airlines.
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[2026-08-23 21:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A proposed law that would further legitimise Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces as a permanent national security institution raises concerns over the country's democratic future and state sovereignty, experts and officials told The National.
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