Topic: Iran — Neutral reports only
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[2026-08-11 13:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated an alleged quote attributed to a senior Iranian commander about Tehran's determination to develop nuclear weapons, even though the statement had no identified primary source and was later traced to an Indian pro-Israel account on X.
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[2026-08-11 13:07 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-08-11 12:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-11 12:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Catering trucks are parked at Air Force One on the tarmac as the motorcade carrying U.S. President Donald Trump arrives on the tarmac to depart following the NATO summit at Ankara International Airport in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, July 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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[2026-08-11 12:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Trump to demand compensation for Tehran’s ‘conflicts’
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[2026-08-11 12:29 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Elaborate ruse was used to transport president to military flight from Air Force One to return from Nato meet
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[2026-08-11 11:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump said Monday the U.S. Navy had swept the Strait of Hormuz clear of mines and now holds "100%" control of the waterway, with reparations emerging as the latest flashpoint between Washington and Tehran.
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[2026-08-11 11:19 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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[2026-08-11 11:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: U.S. President Donald Trump made sweeping new demands on Iran after Tehran reiterated requests for reparations as part of talks to wind down the conflict, dimming hopes of a quick deal that would reopen the vital Strait of Hormuz as oil prices surged once again.
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[2026-08-11 10:14 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: President Donald Trump secretly boarded an alternative plane using an airport food truck when departing the NATO summit in Turkey last month, according to a bombshell report that underlines the gravity that US officials assigned to threats from Iran.
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[2026-08-11 08:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-11 08:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: It will be three years in October since Israel started its genocide in Gaza, a war crime it has repeated in the Occupied West Bank, South Lebanon, and Iran.
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[2026-08-11 06:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said on Monday he would seek compensation from Iran for the deaths of US soldiers as part of any peace negotiations in a tit-for-tat demand after Tehran requested war reparations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-08-11 06:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Ukraine must compensate Iran for a deadly attack on one of its cargo vessels in the Caspian Sea, as Kiev has failed to convince Tehran that the strike was unintentional, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has said.
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[2026-08-11 06:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Ukraine must compensate Iran for a deadly attack on one of its cargo vessels in the Caspian Sea, as Kiev has failed to convince Tehran that the strike was unintentional, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has said.
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[2026-08-11 06:45 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US president’s statement is latest sign that negotations to end war and reopen strait of Hormuz have stalled
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[2026-08-11 05:16 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: August 11, 2026 05:16 | News
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[2026-08-11 05:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The Trump administration on Monday narrowed its waiver of the Jones Act while extending it for another 90 days, leaving in place fewer U.S. shipping restrictions in an effort to keep fuel flowing amid the Iran war.
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[2026-08-11 04:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: War on Iran: Phase II: Day 30
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[2026-08-11 04:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei named Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps General Ali Abdollahi head of the country's armed forces on Monday, while also confirming a new commander of the Guard, putting his imprimatur on the country's military.
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[2026-08-11 04:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-11 03:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Strait of Hormuz cannot be reopened through diplomacy while Washington continues to use military pressure against Tehran, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has said.
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[2026-08-11 02:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-08-11 02:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: As negotiations between the US and Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz go nowhere, oil prices continue to slide lower on some naive hope that a resolution to the conflict will magically emerge. Meanwhile, both commercial and strategic stocks continue to be drained at a historic pace, and one day virtually every tank bottom will be hit, sparking a historic surge in commodity prices as the market realizes that physical always wins the war with paper oil.
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[2026-08-11 02:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has appointed six senior commanders to key positions in the country's armed forces, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Basij, according to decrees published by his office on Monday.
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[2026-08-11 02:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump knows he can neither sustain nor win a protracted war against Iran, political scientist and University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer has said.
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[2026-08-11 02:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump knows he can neither sustain nor win a protracted war against Iran, political scientist and University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer has said.
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[2026-08-11 02:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: The latest Bloomberg data show that shipping transits through the Strait of Hormuz remained largely disrupted Monday morning, even as Iran and Oman reportedly moved closer to a deal.
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[2026-08-11 02:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei on Monday issued decrees appointing six military and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials to leadership positions after the preceding holders were killed in Israeli-US strikes during operations Roaring Lion and Epic Fury.
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[2026-08-11 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran has played down the mutual security agreement signed between the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey in the Muslim holy city of Mecca on Friday.
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[2026-08-11 01:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Russia’s track and field federation filed a new claim with the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Monday to challenge sanctions imposed by World Athletics.
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[2026-08-11 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: It will be three years in October since Israel started its genocide in Gaza, a war crime it has repeated in the Occupied West Bank, South Lebanon, and Iran.
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[2026-08-11 00:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: It will be three years in October since Israel started its genocide in Gaza, a war crime it has repeated in the Occupied West Bank, South Lebanon, and Iran.
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[2026-08-11 00:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Houthi militants are planning to escalate the conflict in Yemen and regionalise it in support of their main patron, Iran, and their long-term strategic goals, sources told The National on Monday.
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[2026-08-10 23:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Nima Moradi was a 23-year-old sailor on his maiden voyage aboard Anna, a commercial ship in the Caspian Sea, carrying iron from Russia to Iran.
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[2026-08-10 23:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Ship-tracking firm Marine Traffic has said that traffic through the Strait of Hormuz this weekend has declined, falling to just six crossings on Sunday.
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[2026-08-10 22:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: For more news, analysis, and the latest updates, head to jpost.com.
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[2026-08-10 22:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Tehran has described Iranians as “professional chess players” in their dealings with the US, as it insisted that Washington must meet its demands for the re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-08-10 22:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Tehran has described Iranians as “professional chess players” in their dealings with the US, as it insisted that Washington must meet its demands for the re-opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-08-10 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: After President Trump said Sunday that the US is now "low-keying it" with Iran and only "semi-negotiating" following a top Iranian security official having laid out multiple stringent conditions for the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, oil is edging higher on Monday.
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[2026-08-10 22:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US equity futures start the new week barely higher, having erased almost all of their overnight gains, yet still trading at all time highs, led by Tech with small caps starting the week in the red. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are fractionally in the green as traders look to the next big data print from the US this week in the form of CPI and PPI updates, as bets on September rate hikes tumbled after Friday's jobs debacle;
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[2026-08-10 22:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement is likely to be viewed by Tehran as a major success resulting from its aerial attacks on Gulf states, regardless of how strong the new pact proves to be, experts told The Jerusalem Post late Monday.
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[2026-08-10 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: President Donald Trump said the US is "low-keying" its confrontation with Iran, keeping economic and military pressure on while holding off on another major attack.
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[2026-08-10 21:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Eastern Ukraine – In a farm field in eastern Ukraine, a choking engine interrupts the sound of crickets and nightingales.
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[2026-08-10 21:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: More than 23 weeks into the war on Iran, United States President Donald Trump has signalled he would rather rely on squeezing Tehran’s economy than returning to a military offensive, as he had warned he might last week.
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[2026-08-10 21:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Jóvenes a bordo de motocicletas a lo largo de la orilla mientras un tractor saca equipo del agua y al fondo se pueden ver buques mercantes aparentemente anclados en el estrecho de Ormuz, el lunes 27 de julio de 2026, en Bandar Abbas, Irán. (Razieh Poudat/ISNA vía AP)
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[2026-08-10 21:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran's demands for reopening the Strait of Hormuz echo what the US agreed to in the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed June 17th, with Iran seeing the strait as its leverage to ensure that US President Donald Trump fulfills his promises even after the MoU fell apart, the New York Times wrote on Monday.
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[2026-08-10 21:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran sees no reason to be concerned that a new security pact between Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia is directed against Tehran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday.
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[2026-08-10 20:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have targeted a crucial Yemeni government-held port on the Red Sea and attacked an oil facility in Saudi Arabia. A Houthi spokesperson said that Sunday’s attacks were in response to Saudi drones breaching Yemen’s airspace.
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[2026-08-10 20:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: This image taken from video broadcast by Al-Masirah TV, a Houthi-controlled news channel, shows an explosion at the Sanaa International Airport compound during what the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said were several Saudi airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, July 13, 2026. (Al-Masirah TV via AP, File)
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