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The US energy secretary says 17 million barrels crossed Hormuz on Monday. AFP says Iran has shut the strait.

LBCI carried it as a single line of ticker at 08:01 on Wednesday 2 September: US energy secretary Chris Wright told CNBC that more than 17 million barrels of oil crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. He did not say which Monday. The same week AFP wrote that Tehran has "effectively shut" the waterway for six months, and carried Trump's post that the United States has it "under U.S.A. control". Neither outlet mentions the other. Nobody outside government has published a count.

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No photograph was published with any report we hold on this story. The mark is Haaretz’s.
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The number. LBCI carried it as one line of ticker at 08:01 on Wednesday 2 September: US energy secretary Chris Wright told CNBC that more than 17 million barrels of oil crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. No date, no second count, no source but Wright.

Whose account Carried by What the strait is
Chris Wright, energy secretary, to CNBC LBCI, 2 Sep, 08:01 crossed by "more than 17 million barrels" on Monday
AFP, in its own voice Al-Monitor, 2 Sep "effectively shut" by Tehran for six months
Trump, on Truth Social AFP via Al-Monitor, 2 Sep "under U.S.A. control"
JD Vance, at the White House Haaretz, 4 Sep crossed by vessels Iran approves

Shut, or approved? Vance describes ships that do pass — with Iran's permission. AFP's "effectively shut" and Wright's 17 million barrels may be describing the same water. No report we hold says so. None mentions another's account.

Who counted. One volume figure. One source behind it: a US cabinet secretary, on a business channel. No tanker tracker, shipping estimate or Iranian figure appears anywhere we hold. Nothing from inside Iran reached us at all — a hole in our reach, not a quiet day in Tehran.

What this does not settle. Which Monday Wright meant: the nearest to that ticker is 31 August, and no report says. What the 17 million counts — a day's crossings, tankers only, a cleared backlog. And who controls passage: Trump says the United States, AFP says Tehran shut it, Vance says Iran decides who crosses.

What this is about. Whether oil tankers can get through the Strait of Hormuz, and who decides, in a war between the United States and Iran.

The strait. Hormuz is the narrow channel between Iran and Oman. It joins the Gulf to the open sea. Oil and gas from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar and Iran pass through it. AFP says one-fifth of the world's oil flowed through it before the war.

How it got here. - For two decades, Iran's nuclear programme has been the core of its dispute with the US and Israel. A 2015 deal limited the programme in return for lifting sanctions. The US left that deal in 2018 and brought the sanctions back. - Hamas led an attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, and war in Gaza followed. After that, Israel and Iran struck each other directly for the first time in 2024. In June 2025, Israel bombed Iran for twelve days and the US struck three Iranian nuclear sites. - AFP reports that the current war began on 28 February 2026, when US and Israeli attacks on Iran killed its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. - A ceasefire followed. AFP says it collapsed after attacks on commercial ships in the strait. - The US struck Iran again on Sunday 30 August. Trump says this answered an Iranian attempt to lay sea mines in the strait and missiles fired at a base in Jordan. AFP reports that Iran then hit US bases in Jordan, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Iraq's Kurdistan region. Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry says Iran struck the Saudi tanker Sadr in the strait, killing crew members.

The actors. - Iran holds the northern shore. AFP writes that Iran has effectively shut the strait. - The United States wants the strait open. Trump says the US now controls it. Washington is widening sanctions on countries that trade with Iran. - Gulf producers depend on the strait for their exports. Vance says several are quietly helping the US. - China, a major buyer of Gulf oil, stayed out of a G20 finance ministers' call for "free and safe" passage, LBCI reports.

What is at stake. The world's oil supply and its price, the safety of crews on the tankers, and whether the war spreads further.

Where it stands. Six months in, the two sides are not talking. Haaretz reports Vance saying Washington has cut contact with Iran while Iran fires at ships. No count of traffic through the strait has been published by anyone outside government.

The story so far

Earlier stories The AI Times filed on this thread.

What is being argued about

  • Which Monday is it? The ticker ran Wednesday 2 September, which puts "Monday" at 31 August — our arithmetic, not Wright's word. No report dates it.
  • What does 17 million barrels count — one day's crossings, tankers only, a cleared backlog? Wright's line does not say and LBCI does not ask.
  • Can a strait be shut and carry 17 million barrels? Vance describes vessels passing with Iran's approval, which would reconcile the two — but no report puts them side by side.
  • Who has counted, other than the US government? No tanker-tracking, shipping-industry or Iranian figure appears we hold.
Four accounts of one waterwaySide by side
OutletWhose accountWhat the strait isHedged?
lbci-lebanese-broadcasting-corporation-internationalChris Wright, US energy secretary, to CNBCCrossed by "more than 17 million barrels" of oil on MondayNo hedge — and no date on "Monday", no second count
almonitorAFP, in its own voice"Effectively shut" by Tehran for six monthsPartly — the word is "effectively"; the claim is unattributed
almonitorDonald Trump, on Truth Social"Under U.S.A. control"Yes — AFP adds that he implied later he wasn't serious
haaretzJD Vance, at the White HouseCrossed by vessels Iran approves; Iran fires at the restNo
Every account comes from a US official or from an outlet's own voice. No report mentions any of the others.
Sources LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
Centre estimate · not a score
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) 🇱🇧LB · TV/radio · independent الوكالة الوطنية للاعلام: غارة على حي الدير في النبطية الفوقا -... Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) → What we have measured Active voice, actor named the Israeli army carried out the detonation ×1Actor framing Tehran calls the meeting. Iraq is the only other state named. ×1Actor left unnamed the strike in Iraqi waters has no one named as firing it — the source is "unknown" ×1Actor named names Israel as the one striking ×1 from 8159 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al-Monitor
Centre estimate · not a score
Al-Monitor 🇺🇸US/ME · digital · independent Iran attacks US sites after American strikes, wedding deaths - AL-MONITOR: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012 Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Al-Monitor → What we have measured Actor from anonymous officials Puts the IRGC at the trigger in a sentence sourc ×1Actor named Names the Director-General as the one who requested the dismissal ×1Actor named names Trump as the one who began the war, with Israel ×1Actor named names Israel as the actor in its military actions against the Palestinians ×1 from 1566 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Haaretz
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Haaretz 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Israel Police: Terrorist Neutralized After Attempted Stabbing in Jerusalem Old City - Israel Security Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Haaretz → What we have measured A previous framing corrected the twelve-country statement described as ambiguously worded ×1Asserted flat The report states as fact that barring Arab parties is a standing ritual. ×1Asserted flat The report says ethnicity explains the different outcomes, in its own voice. ×1Asserted in the report's own voice Parties are characterised by what they are said to promise, unattributed, and the headline calls the result frightening. ×1 from 1936 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
One Wednesday morning of Hormuz tickers, and what came afterTimeline
  1. 2026-09-0207:04 LBCI ticker, time as published G20 finance ministers, China excepted Call for "free and safe" passage through the Strait of HormuzCarried by LBCI as one line. No detail, no communiqué text.
  2. 2026-09-0207:12 LBCI ticker, time as published Saudi foreign ministry Denounces Iran's targeting of the Saudi tanker Sidr as it crossed Hormuz, and the crew deaths that followedNames Iran. AFP, the same week, calls the tanker attacks unclaimed.
  3. 2026-09-0208:00 LBCI ticker, time as published US Treasury secretary, to Fox News Says Washington will cut every link between Iran's government and the world, and target anyone dealing with it
  4. 2026-09-0208:01 LBCI ticker, time as published Chris Wright, US energy secretary, to CNBC Says more than 17 million barrels of oil crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Monday 17m barrelsThe nearest Monday to this ticker is 31 August. No report says which Monday, and no other source gives a figure.
  5. 2026-09-02— no time published AFP, carried by Al-Monitor Writes that Tehran has "effectively shut" the strait for six months, and carries Trump's post that the US has it "under U.S.A. control"AFP notes he implied later he wasn't serious. Does not mention Wright's figure.
  6. 2026-09-04— no time published JD Vance, at the White House Says Washington has cut contact with Iran while it fires at vessels passing "without its approval"Haaretz's live blog stamps the entry "2 hours ago" and gives no clock time.
Times are LBCI's own, as published on the page. The two English reports publish a date and no clock time.
Sources LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
Centre estimate · not a score
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) 🇱🇧LB · TV/radio · independent الوكالة الوطنية للاعلام: غارة على حي الدير في النبطية الفوقا -... Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) → What we have measured Active voice, actor named the Israeli army carried out the detonation ×1Actor framing Tehran calls the meeting. Iraq is the only other state named. ×1Actor left unnamed the strike in Iraqi waters has no one named as firing it — the source is "unknown" ×1Actor named names Israel as the one striking ×1 from 8159 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al-Monitor
Centre estimate · not a score
Al-Monitor 🇺🇸US/ME · digital · independent Iran attacks US sites after American strikes, wedding deaths - AL-MONITOR: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012 Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Al-Monitor → What we have measured Actor from anonymous officials Puts the IRGC at the trigger in a sentence sourc ×1Actor named Names the Director-General as the one who requested the dismissal ×1Actor named names Trump as the one who began the war, with Israel ×1Actor named names Israel as the actor in its military actions against the Palestinians ×1 from 1566 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Haaretz
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Haaretz 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Israel Police: Terrorist Neutralized After Attempted Stabbing in Jerusalem Old City - Israel Security Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Haaretz → What we have measured A previous framing corrected the twelve-country statement described as ambiguously worded ×1Asserted flat The report states as fact that barring Arab parties is a standing ritual. ×1Asserted flat The report says ethnicity explains the different outcomes, in its own voice. ×1Asserted in the report's own voice Parties are characterised by what they are said to promise, unattributed, and the headline calls the result frightening. ×1 from 1936 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
What else the three reports carry about the straitFacts optional section
Facts from the same reporting. None of them is a count of what crossed.
Sources LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
Centre estimate · not a score
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) 🇱🇧LB · TV/radio · independent الوكالة الوطنية للاعلام: غارة على حي الدير في النبطية الفوقا -... Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) → What we have measured Active voice, actor named the Israeli army carried out the detonation ×1Actor framing Tehran calls the meeting. Iraq is the only other state named. ×1Actor left unnamed the strike in Iraqi waters has no one named as firing it — the source is "unknown" ×1Actor named names Israel as the one striking ×1 from 8159 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al-Monitor
Centre estimate · not a score
Al-Monitor 🇺🇸US/ME · digital · independent Iran attacks US sites after American strikes, wedding deaths - AL-MONITOR: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012 Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Al-Monitor → What we have measured Actor from anonymous officials Puts the IRGC at the trigger in a sentence sourc ×1Actor named Names the Director-General as the one who requested the dismissal ×1Actor named names Trump as the one who began the war, with Israel ×1Actor named names Israel as the actor in its military actions against the Palestinians ×1 from 1566 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
The bias in this coverageBias

Four descriptions of one waterway

Across three reports the Strait of Hormuz is shut by Tehran, crossed by more than 17 million barrels on an unspecified Monday, passable to vessels Iran approves, and under US control. Each description comes from a US official or from an outlet's own voice. No report mentions any of the others.

4 descriptions of the strait's status across the three reports 0 reports that note a competing description 0 independent tanker-tracking figures published 0 dates attached to the word Monday

Who counted

The only volume figure we hold is the US energy secretary's, given in a television interview and repeated as a headline. No shipping-industry or vessel-tracking count appears, and no Iranian source is quoted on traffic at all. That second gap is ours as much as theirs: nothing from inside Iran reached.

1 volume figures published across the three reports 1 sources standing behind that figure 0 non-US sources quoted on strait traffic
Scored without the mastheads. Where the two passes differ, both are kept.
Sources LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
Centre estimate · not a score
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) 🇱🇧LB · TV/radio · independent الوكالة الوطنية للاعلام: غارة على حي الدير في النبطية الفوقا -... Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) → What we have measured Active voice, actor named the Israeli army carried out the detonation ×1Actor framing Tehran calls the meeting. Iraq is the only other state named. ×1Actor left unnamed the strike in Iraqi waters has no one named as firing it — the source is "unknown" ×1Actor named names Israel as the one striking ×1 from 8159 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al-Monitor
Centre estimate · not a score
Al-Monitor 🇺🇸US/ME · digital · independent Iran attacks US sites after American strikes, wedding deaths - AL-MONITOR: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012 Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Al-Monitor → What we have measured Actor from anonymous officials Puts the IRGC at the trigger in a sentence sourc ×1Actor named Names the Director-General as the one who requested the dismissal ×1Actor named names Trump as the one who began the war, with Israel ×1Actor named names Israel as the actor in its military actions against the Palestinians ×1 from 1566 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Haaretz
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Haaretz 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Israel Police: Terrorist Neutralized After Attempted Stabbing in Jerusalem Old City - Israel Security Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Haaretz → What we have measured A previous framing corrected the twelve-country statement described as ambiguously worded ×1Asserted flat The report states as fact that barring Arab parties is a standing ritual. ×1Asserted flat The report says ethnicity explains the different outcomes, in its own voice. ×1Asserted in the report's own voice Parties are characterised by what they are said to promise, unattributed, and the headline calls the result frightening. ×1 from 1936 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Claims and verdicts

misleading Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz.
AFP writes that Tehran has "effectively shut" the waterway for six months, while Vance, quoted by Haaretz, says Iran fires at vessels passing "without its approval" — which describes traffic that does pass, with Iran's permission. "Shut" and "controlled by Iran" are being used for the same thing, so a closure and a throughput figure are not necessarily in conflict.
Checked against 2 sources:
Al-Monitor
Centre estimate · not a score
Al-Monitor 🇺🇸US/ME · digital · independent Iran attacks US sites after American strikes, wedding deaths - AL-MONITOR: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012 Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Al-Monitor → What we have measured Actor from anonymous officials Puts the IRGC at the trigger in a sentence sourc ×1Actor named Names the Director-General as the one who requested the dismissal ×1Actor named names Trump as the one who began the war, with Israel ×1Actor named names Israel as the actor in its military actions against the Palestinians ×1 from 1566 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Haaretz
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Haaretz 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Israel Police: Terrorist Neutralized After Attempted Stabbing in Jerusalem Old City - Israel Security Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Haaretz → What we have measured A previous framing corrected the twelve-country statement described as ambiguously worded ×1Asserted flat The report states as fact that barring Arab parties is a standing ritual. ×1Asserted flat The report says ethnicity explains the different outcomes, in its own voice. ×1Asserted in the report's own voice Parties are characterised by what they are said to promise, unattributed, and the headline calls the result frightening. ×1 from 1936 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
unverified The United States has the strait under its control.
Trump wrote "Now that we have it under U.S.A. control" on Truth Social while proposing to rename Hormuz the "Trump Strait", and AFP records that he later implied he was not serious. In the same run AFP says Iran has effectively shut the strait and Vance says Iran fires on unapproved vessels; nobody outside the US government describes who controls passage.
Checked against 2 sources:
Al-Monitor
Centre estimate · not a score
Al-Monitor 🇺🇸US/ME · digital · independent Iran attacks US sites after American strikes, wedding deaths - AL-MONITOR: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012 Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Al-Monitor → What we have measured Actor from anonymous officials Puts the IRGC at the trigger in a sentence sourc ×1Actor named Names the Director-General as the one who requested the dismissal ×1Actor named names Trump as the one who began the war, with Israel ×1Actor named names Israel as the actor in its military actions against the Palestinians ×1 from 1566 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Haaretz
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Haaretz 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Israel Police: Terrorist Neutralized After Attempted Stabbing in Jerusalem Old City - Israel Security Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Haaretz → What we have measured A previous framing corrected the twelve-country statement described as ambiguously worded ×1Asserted flat The report states as fact that barring Arab parties is a standing ritual. ×1Asserted flat The report says ethnicity explains the different outcomes, in its own voice. ×1Asserted in the report's own voice Parties are characterised by what they are said to promise, unattributed, and the headline calls the result frightening. ×1 from 1936 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
unverified More than 17 million barrels of oil crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.
The figure has one source — the US Energy Secretary, speaking to CNBC — carried by LBCI as a one-line ticker at 08:01 on Wednesday 2 September, which places the "Monday" at 31 August. No tanker-tracking, shipping-industry or non-US count of the throughput appears anywhere we hold.
Checked against 2 sources:
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
Centre estimate · not a score
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) 🇱🇧LB · TV/radio · independent الوكالة الوطنية للاعلام: غارة على حي الدير في النبطية الفوقا -... Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) → What we have measured Active voice, actor named the Israeli army carried out the detonation ×1Actor framing Tehran calls the meeting. Iraq is the only other state named. ×1Actor left unnamed the strike in Iraqi waters has no one named as firing it — the source is "unknown" ×1Actor named names Israel as the one striking ×1 from 8159 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al-Monitor
Centre estimate · not a score
Al-Monitor 🇺🇸US/ME · digital · independent Iran attacks US sites after American strikes, wedding deaths - AL-MONITOR: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012 Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Al-Monitor → What we have measured Actor from anonymous officials Puts the IRGC at the trigger in a sentence sourc ×1Actor named Names the Director-General as the one who requested the dismissal ×1Actor named names Trump as the one who began the war, with Israel ×1Actor named names Israel as the actor in its military actions against the Palestinians ×1 from 1566 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Who wrote it

B Beatrice Farhat Al-Monitor
What the bias passes found in their reporting
No actor, dead by nationality Calls the same attacks unclaimed, names no ship,×1
No actor named and unclaimed Same attacks with no actor and no ship name — th×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
2 misleading3 disputed4 unverified
From 37 reports we hold under this byline, at Al-Monitor. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating. Their full record →
The bylines on the reports this story is built from. Hover one for what our passes have measured on their reporting. · 2 reports we hold carry no byline — we do not invent one.

Coverage, outlet by outlet

Haaretz
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Haaretz 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent Israel Police: Terrorist Neutralized After Attempted Stabbing in Jerusalem Old City - Israel Security Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Haaretz → What we have measured A previous framing corrected the twelve-country statement described as ambiguously worded ×1Asserted flat The report states as fact that barring Arab parties is a standing ritual. ×1Asserted flat The report says ethnicity explains the different outcomes, in its own voice. ×1Asserted in the report's own voice Parties are characterised by what they are said to promise, unattributed, and the headline calls the result frightening. ×1 from 1936 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — independent
The only report carrying the ridge at all: "The Israeli military said it took over the strategic Ali Taher Ridge" in the body, and "captures key Lebanon ridge" flat in its own recap headline. Hedges the Iranian presence
The municipality of the Christian-majority Palestinian village of Taybeh urged its residents who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents to document settler attacks as part of a class action lawsuit filed in the United States. The Taybeh Municipality's call for residents to join the class action lawsuit against Israeli settlers, posted on Thursday. Credit: Taybeh Municipality via Facebook The Taybeh Municipality's call for residents to join the class action lawsuit against Israeli settlers, posted on Thursday. Credit: Taybeh Municipality via Facebook "If any of you have been subjected to pers
Headline states what body attributes: The headline reports the capture as fact and cal — “RECAP: Israel kills two in Gaza, captures key Lebanon ridge after Iran threatens attack”
Hedge added a day later: The Iranian presence carries 'reportedly' here a — “where Iranian military personnel were reportedly holed up alongside Hezbollah fighters in what the IDF says are large underground command-and-control centers”
Flat in the headline: The outlet's own recap states the capture as fac — “RECAP: Israel kills two in Gaza, captures key Lebanon ridge after Iran threatens attack”
Attributed below, adjective kept: The bullet attributes the capture to the militar — “The Israeli military said it took over the strategic Ali Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon”
Presence hedged: Hedges the Iranian presence on the ridge with "r — “where Iranian military personnel were reportedly holed up alongside Hezbollah fighters”
Read it at Haaretz → https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-09-04/ty-artic…
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
Centre estimate · not a score
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) 🇱🇧LB · TV/radio · independent الوكالة الوطنية للاعلام: غارة على حي الدير في النبطية الفوقا -... Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) → What we have measured Active voice, actor named the Israeli army carried out the detonation ×1Actor framing Tehran calls the meeting. Iraq is the only other state named. ×1Actor left unnamed the strike in Iraqi waters has no one named as firing it — the source is "unknown" ×1Actor named names Israel as the one striking ×1 from 8159 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — independent
The only report that names places: an air strike on Hay al-Deir in Nabatieh al-Fawqa, "a large detonation in Kfar Tebnit that caused a huge boom across Nabatieh", and detonations with artillery in Beit Lif, Mansouri and
في المزاد الخيري لملكة جمال العالم... هديّة مميّزة من ملكة جمال لبنان بيرلا حرب (صور)
The actor is the enemy: The national news agency names the actor as 'the — “الوكالة الوطنية للاعلام: العدو نفذ تفجيرا كبيرا في كفرتبنيت أحدث دوياً هائلاً في أرجاء النبطية”
No ridge in the lebanese account: From the same ground the agency reports detonati — “الوكالة الوطنية: تفجيرات معادية في بيت ليف والمنصوري وحداثا وقصف مدفعي”
Party term for the actor: Lebanon's agency copy names the actor as "the en — “الوكالة الوطنية للاعلام: العدو نفذ تفجيرا كبيرا في كفرتبنيت أحدث دوياً هائلاً في أرجاء النبطية”
Strike with no actor: Headlines an air raid on a Nabatieh neighbourhoo — “الوكالة الوطنية للاعلام: غارة على حي الدير في النبطية الفوقا”
Read it at LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) → https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/latest-news/955550/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8…
Al-Monitor
Centre estimate · not a score
Al-Monitor 🇺🇸US/ME · digital · independent Iran attacks US sites after American strikes, wedding deaths - AL-MONITOR: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012 Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Al-Monitor → What we have measured Actor from anonymous officials Puts the IRGC at the trigger in a sentence sourc ×1Actor named Names the Director-General as the one who requested the dismissal ×1Actor named names Trump as the one who began the war, with Israel ×1Actor named names Israel as the actor in its military actions against the Palestinians ×1 from 1566 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — independent
Calls the same attacks unclaimed and makes the projectiles the subject: 'projectiles struck two oil tankers in unclaimed attacks, one of which killed two Filipino sailors, according to a Saudi shipping company.' The
Iran and the United States traded threats on Wednesday after some of the heaviest fighting in weeks engulfed the Middle East, deepening the foes' stalemate six months into the war. President Donald Trump said US forces staged a "very heavy attack" on Iranian targets overnight and are "prepared to do another one any time we want". Tehran's security chief warned that Iran had adopted a "new strategy" in the war that began in late February with US-Israeli attacks on the Islamic Republic. "You will soon see that Iran's new strategy on the battlefield, in diplomacy and in confronting the economic b
No actor named and unclaimed: Same attacks with no actor and no ship name — th — “projectiles struck two oil tankers in unclaimed attacks, one of which killed two Filipino sailors, according to a Saudi shipping company”
No actor, dead by nationality: Calls the same attacks unclaimed, names no ship, — “projectiles struck two oil tankers in unclaimed attacks, one of which killed two Filipino sailors, according to a Saudi shipping company”
Read it at Al-Monitor → https://www.al-monitor.com/index%2ephp/originals/2026/09/iran-attacks-u…
Checked, didn’t cover
The Times of Israel
Centre estimate · not a score
The Times of Israel 🇮🇱IL · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actorless in own voice The killing is passive with no shooter in the se ×1Headline carries the purpose The livestock and the army's reason are in the h ×1Headline frame The headline carries the military's word for the ×1Military words carried whole Both the label for the dead and the phrase for t ×1 from 149 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al-Mada
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Al-Mada 🇮🇶IQ · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → North Press Agency
Centre estimate · not a score
North Press Agency 🇸🇾SY · wire · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Attribution the damage list is carried in full, attributed to the side claiming it ×1Single official source Uses the Saudi Press Agency's account: 'bilateral relations', with no mention of reconstruction or money. ×1What is at stake presents the stakes as trade and energy security; no ship, crew or price is counted ×1Which line is led with led by the legal instrument, naming the Security Council resolution by number ×1 from 1169 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Tehran Times
State / loyalist estimate · not a score
Tehran Times 🇮🇷IR · newspaper · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Asserted vs attributed headline states the seizure flat; the body attributes it to the claimant ×1Attribution the toll is attributed to a body that is described but not named ×1Headline against body headline states the seizure flat; the body attributes it to the IRGC ×1How the objectors are framed opposition is described as protesters speaking for civilians ×1 from 1753 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → WAFA · Palestinian News & Information Agency
State / loyalist estimate · not a score
WAFA · Palestinian News & Information Agency 🇵🇸PS · state agency · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → SANA (Syrian Arab News Agency)
State / loyalist estimate · not a score
SANA (Syrian Arab News Agency) 🇸🇾SY · state agency · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Middle East Eye
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Middle East Eye 🇬🇧UK · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured How hard the claim is stated Its own body says the investigators did not attribute the network to the Emirati state — the qualification its headline drops. ×1How hard the claim is stated The body withdraws in one line the attribution its own headline makes ×1How deeply it is sourced Cites its own past reporting as the evidence for the claim in its own headline, and calls the evidence widespread in its own voice ×1How deeply it is sourced Offers its own past reporting as the evidence supporting the claim in its headline, inside the same sentence that carries the denial. ×1 from 125 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Ammon News
Centre estimate · not a score
Ammon News 🇯🇴JO · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al Jazeera English
Centre estimate · not a score
Al Jazeera English 🇶🇦QA · TV/radio · state-funded international No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accusation attributed Cuba's charge is attributed to its foreign minister, not stated as fact ×1Actor named The headline names Israel as the actor and gives a count of three that includes a child. ×1Agency No actor is named for the detentions. The raids, not the soldiers, 'left' the town in lockdown ×1Agency Names Israel as the actor in the headline, in active voice ×1 from 4959 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → An-Nahar
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An-Nahar 🇱🇧LB · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accused named the accused is named and his age is given ×1Accused named names the accused and gives his age ×1A contested finding relayed with the case still the prime minister's claim carried, with the court proceedings noted in the same sentence ×1Active voice and a toll in the background paragraph, the July strikes get named actors and counted dead — the only counted dead in this story ×1 from 10777 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Silence is recorded, not inferred — each of these was read when we built this story and carried nothing on this event.
We could not read these
K Kan · Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation
Centre estimate · not a score
Kan · Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation 🇮🇱IL · public broadcaster · public-service No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Palestine TV · Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation
State / loyalist estimate · not a score
Palestine TV · Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation 🇵🇸PS · TV/radio · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Asserted versus attributed recognition itself stated as fact ×1Attribution 'historic' attributed to the Palestinian ambassador ×1Dead counted, not named two dead are counted as 'citizens' and none are named; the wounded are not counted ×1Dead named Gives the dead man's full name and age. ×1 from 766 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → A Al-Sabaah
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Al-Sabaah 🇮🇶IQ · newspaper · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Ma'an News Agency
Centre estimate · not a score
Ma'an News Agency 🇵🇸PS · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency)
State / loyalist estimate · not a score
IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency) 🇮🇷IR · state agency · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured A contested word in the headline "illegal" is a Chinese spokesperson's characterisation, carried unmarked in the headline ×1A contested word taken as the report's own "illegal" appears in the headline without quotation marks or attribution to the speaker ×1Acted upon, never acting police are named as acting; whoever hoarded a billion toman of staples is not named at all ×1Actor label The Houthi-run authority is called Yemen's transport ministry. ×1 from 15038 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al Rai
State / loyalist estimate · not a score
Al Rai 🇯🇴JO · newspaper · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Ynet
Centre estimate · not a score
Ynet 🇮🇱IL · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured A claim in the headline that the other reports very close to deciding the regime appears in one report only ×1Active voice The killers are the subject of the verbs 'beat' and 'burned'. ×1Active voice The killers are named as acting ×1Army's term, attributed the army names the target of its strikes, and no one on the other side is quoted ×1 from 2684 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Shargh
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Shargh 🇮🇷IR · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured A count with its base both days given, and the data called preliminary ×1Actor named as a state the attack is Yemen's, not the Houthis' ×1A different actor does the asking Pakistan's army chief, not Beijing, is the one asking Tehran to use its influence, on the word of unnamed Pakistani government sources. ×1'aggression' in the narration The US campaign is called aggression in the report's own narration, which it credits to Al-Ahram's account of the call. ×1 from 10199 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al-Manar
State-owned, sometimes critical estimate · not a score
Al-Manar 🇱🇧LB · TV/radio · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Galei Tzahal (Army Radio)
State / loyalist estimate · not a score
Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) 🇮🇱IL · TV/radio · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times →
These are must-cite outlets for this desk that we did not manage to read when we built this story. That is a gap in our reach, not a silence on their part, and it is not evidence of anything about this story.

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