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🌈 Arc #1
The US–Iran war
The war between the United States and Iran: the strikes and threats, the talks and mediators, Hormuz and the blockade, oil, the dead and the bill, Iran's plots and sabotage abroad, the Houthi–Saudi front, and the war's politics at home, the impeachment drive over it included.
Oct 3, 8 AM ET to Nov 12, 7 PM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now
- 7threads (sagas)
- 68stories in them
- 88outlets carried a story
- 🫏39 · 15 · 28🐘left · center · right
- 40.5 daysfollowed so far
🌈 One affair followed over weeks. Each thread below is a saga, a turn of the affair told across days (the talks, a front, a race), and each saga is made of stories on the front pages. Sagas are put in an arc by Claude (Anthropic's AI model) for now; a local model will place new ones once it passes its test. An arc's sagas can be wrong: the saga tracker says how they're made.
🛤️ Its threads
each saga a row, oldest first; each bar a story's time on the front pages (point at one)
🧵 UK-US airbase Iran plot 9 stories · 55 outlets
🧵 Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia 15 stories · 52 outlets
🧵 US–Iran strikes, threats and talks 🔴 now 30 stories · 67 outlets
🧵 Trump and Rubio Cuba policy 2 stories · 20 outlets
🧵 Cyberattacks target French blood banks and European supermarkets 2 stories · 41 outlets
🧵 Hegseth impeachment probe 🔴 now 8 stories · 80 outlets
🧵 U.S. military action against Iran 2 stories · 19 outlets
🧵 The sagas in it
each with its latest stories; open a saga for its whole run
🧵 U.S. military action against Iran
last on front pages Nov 9, 4 PM ET
2 parts · 19 outlets · since Nov 7, 7 PM ET · 1.9 days
- U.S. military fires on vessel attempting to breach Gulf blockade
- U.S. military establishes task force to disrupt Iranian ground routes
🧵 Hegseth impeachment probe
📰 on front pages now
8 parts · 80 outlets · since Nov 4, 5 PM ET · 8.1 days
- House Democrats miss impeachment vote on Pete Hegseth, apologize
- House Democrats missed impeachment vote due to DC traffic
- Rep. Massie introduces articles of impeachment against Hegseth
🧵 Cyberattacks target French blood banks and European supermarkets
last on front pages Nov 12, 12 PM ET
2 parts · 41 outlets · since Nov 2, 8 AM ET · 10.2 days
- France blames Iran for supermarket refrigerator cyberattacks
- Cyberattacks target French blood banks and European supermarkets
🧵 Trump and Rubio Cuba policy
last on front pages Oct 26, 8 AM ET
2 parts · 20 outlets · since Oct 23, 10 PM ET · 2.4 days
- Trump proposes military action in Cuba after Iran conflict
- Rubio urges Cubans to work discreetly with CIA
🧵 US–Iran strikes, threats and talks
📰 on front pages now
30 parts · 67 outlets · since Oct 5, 1 PM ET · 38.3 days
- Trump claims Iran war is effectively over, cites Qatar and Saudi support
- Treasury Secretary Bessent moves to military base over Iranian threats
- Trump directs Vance to focus on domestic corruption instead of Iran negotiations
🧵 Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia
last on front pages Nov 10, 10 AM ET
15 parts · 52 outlets · since Oct 4, 11 AM ET · 37 days
- Houthi missiles damage Saudi Aramco building in Riyadh
- U.S. orders some diplomats to leave Saudi Arabia amid Houthi attacks
- UK to deploy fighter jets to defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks
🧵 UK-US airbase Iran plot
last on front pages Nov 12, 1 PM ET
9 parts · 55 outlets · since Oct 3, 8 AM ET · 40.2 days
- U.S. moves aircraft from second UK base over Iran threat
- Iran-backed operative plotted attack from US jail using coded messages
- Two men charged in UK over RAF Fairford incident