Topic: Iran — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-22 20:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Iran maintained its harsh rhetoric Saturday against the U.S.' plans to impose tough new sanctions.
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[2026-08-22 20:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-22 20:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Behnam Vali Heydarian, or “Ben Vali,” has lived what he feels like have been several lifetimes across four countries.
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[2026-08-22 19:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian takes questions from the media during a news conference in New York on Sept. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, File)
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[2026-08-22 19:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran has decried impending United States sanctions as a “complete erosion of sovereignty” following US President Donald Trump’s threat to punish any country doing business with Tehran.
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[2026-08-22 19:00 UTC+10:00] [US midterm elections 2026] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: As the president tries to extract the US from his Iran war quagmire, leadership in Tehran is only too happy to crush his midterm dreams
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[2026-08-22 18:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Shenhua received an official disciplinary warning, while Guoan were fined and had their away-fan seating allocations cut over fans’ behaviour
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[2026-08-22 18:45 UTC+10:00] [Beijing Guoan] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Shenhua received an official disciplinary warning, while Guoan were fined and had their away-fan seating allocations cut over fans’ behaviour
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[2026-08-22 18:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Tehran says it has allowed a number of Iraqi oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-08-22 16:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Good morning Middle East Eye readers, US President Donald Trump said he views the Strait of Hormuz as “an American territory” and reiterated that the US “cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon”.
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[2026-08-22 15:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, says new US sanctions against Iran amounted to a “declaration of war” on all countries and went beyond “an illegal economic war against a single nation”, according to Iran’s Fars news agency.
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[2026-08-22 15:15 UTC+10:00] [Philippine News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-08-22 14:39 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
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[2026-08-22 12:37 UTC+10:00] [JAPAN] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration is under fire for what critics say are weak responses to U.S. sanctions on International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane, a Japanese national, and to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to a disputed island.
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[2026-08-22 11:24 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: President at rally in South Carolina makes comments on key strategic waterway and jokes about bombing Iran
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[2026-08-22 11:12 UTC+10:00] [Ukraine] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Kaja Kallas, the EU’s top diplomat, threatens harshest sanctions yet on Russia after strike on Kryvyi Rih, the home town of Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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[2026-08-22 10:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for an end to the months-long war with the United States, stating that Tehran holds a position of strength as diplomatic talks remain stalled.
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[2026-08-22 10:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The new US Treasury sanctions on Hezbollah unveiled Thursday do more than ever before in 'legally' classifying the Lebanese militant group as essentially an arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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[2026-08-22 10:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The United States' efforts to weaponize space threaten to accelerate the proliferation of space weaponization, Ali Bahreini, the Islamic Republic’s ambassador and permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, told the Conference on Disarmament on August 10, Iran International reported Wednesday.
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[2026-08-22 10:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump once again described the Strait of Hormuz as “an American territory” and reiterated that the US “cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon”, Al Jazeera reported.
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[2026-08-22 09:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Georgia has declined to join the European Union’s latest sanctions against Iran, saying its foreign policy decisions are guided by national interests, Iran’s state news agency, IRNA, reported.
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[2026-08-22 08:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: AI-powered geospatial data platform xMap's data scientist, Dana Harrison, asked in a LinkedIn post: "Can Mobility Data Spot Commodity Supply Risk Before the Market Does?"
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[2026-08-22 08:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US President Donald Trump stated that Iran "would love" to make a deal with the US but was not prepared to make "the right deal," while speaking to the press on Friday.
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[2026-08-22 07:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said on Friday he did not think that Iran was ready make the "right deal," and that Washington was observing "what happens" in the war.
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[2026-08-22 06:45 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: Published 22 August 2026 6:45am
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[2026-08-22 06:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran’s parliament speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Friday Iran does not interfere in Iraqi internal affairs and will support any agreement between the factions and the Iraqi government.
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[2026-08-22 06:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-22 05:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The number of wounded or killed US servicemen in the Iran war jumped to 774 after the Pentagon added a new round of injured soldiers in the last few days, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
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[2026-08-22 05:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: An oil tanker under US sanctions for allegedly transporting Iranian petroleum products has become the latest victim of resurgent Somali piracy when it was boarded off the coast of Yemen and diverted toward Somalia.
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[2026-08-22 04:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The comments come after US Treasury chief Bessent vowed Washington would ‘collapse’ the Iranian regime with sanctions
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[2026-08-22 04:29 UTC+10:00] [Tehran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The comments come after US Treasury chief Bessent vowed Washington would ‘collapse’ the Iranian regime with sanctions
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[2026-08-22 04:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The most important lesson of the 2026 Hormuz crisis is not that the strait has become less important. It is that Hormuz has become so important that dependence on it is itself a strategic vulnerability.
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[2026-08-22 03:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said US President Donald Trump’s threat to launch the “most crushing economic operation ever” against Iran was “doomed to failure”.
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[2026-08-22 03:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: London, United Kingdom – The United States and Israel’s war on Iran was largely unexpected, given the repeated warnings from most US allies, as well as their lack of enthusiasm for a potential conflict.
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[2026-08-22 03:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani said on Thursday that Syria, like other countries, is closely reviewing the trilateral defense agreement between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, but has not yet decided whether to join the pact.
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[2026-08-22 02:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Escalation was the name of the game this week, as the full extent of British involvement in Ukraine’s long-range strikes on Russia was revealed, and as US President Donald Trump laid claim to the Strait of Hormuz and shifted to a policy of subjecting Iran to long-term economic strangulation.
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[2026-08-22 02:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un grupo de niños palestinos en la costa de Jan Yunis en la Franja de Gaza el 21 de agosto del 2026. (AP foto/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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[2026-08-22 02:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Omani and Iranian foreign ministers discussed in a phone call ways to create suitable conditions for resuming dialogue and negotiations, and developments affecting navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, Oman's state news agency said on Friday.
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[2026-08-22 02:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-22 02:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Ukraine has sanctioned the popular Russian cartoon ‘Masha and the Bear’ in a step to ban the children’s show, accusing the producers of spreading “pro-Russian narratives” and threatening Ukrainian national security.
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[2026-08-22 02:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States on Thursday warned allies and China to join President Donald Trump’s new campaign to isolate Iran’s economy, vowing that Washington would “collapse this regime” in Tehran.
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[2026-08-22 01:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-22 01:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Oman has spent decades cultivating a reputation as one of the Middle East’s most reliable diplomatic go-betweens, maintaining a long-standing strategic partnership with the US while preserving close ties with Iran.
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[2026-08-22 00:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A British teenager pleaded guilty on Friday over an arson attack at offices linked to television station Iran International in northwest London earlier this year.
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[2026-08-21 23:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has threatened a crushing financial campaign against Iran, which he has referred to as “economic D-Day”, as the war on Tehran continues to drag on.
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[2026-08-21 23:44 UTC+10:00] [International Relations] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: As Iran’s largest trading partner, China would seemingly have much to lose from President Trump’s threat this week to impose “tremendous economic consequences” on nations doing business with Tehran.
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[2026-08-21 23:38 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: LIFE IN IRAN. A woman walks by a mural depicting Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on a street in Tehran, Iran, August 13, 2026.
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[2026-08-21 22:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A police cordon was put in place near Volant Media, the parent company of Persian news channel Iran International
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[2026-08-21 22:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for an end to the war while Tehran remains “in a position of strength and dignity”, warning that Iran would crush any renewed attack.
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[2026-08-21 22:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: China has firmly rejected Washington's call to join in implementing US sanctions to "squash" Iran's economy, pushing back against Trump administration pressure to be part of the "toughest sanctions in history" which has marked a new phase of conflict focused on extended economic warfare, as a military solution is seen as increasingly unrealistic and unlikely.
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