Iran's Supreme leader threatens response without geographic limits as Trump weighs new strikes

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Iran's Supreme leader threatens response without geographic limits as Trump weighs new strikes

Oct 31, 1 PM ET to Nov 2, 1 PM ET

20outlets carried it
🫏6 · 7 · 7🐘left · center · right
2 dayson the front pages
19front pages at once, at its peak
18 minof TV captions
14radio newscasts
12 of 28parts of a saga

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Oct 31, 1 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 31, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: Newsweek
Oct 31, 1 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Nov 1, 9 AM ETpeak: on 19 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 31, 1 PM to Nov 2, 1 PM ET (peak 19), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

“Without geographical limitations”2
“geographically unrestricted”1
“impactful,”1
“unrestricted response”1
“Earth-Shattering Blow,”1
“geographic limits”1
“Without Geographical Limitations”2
“Geographic Limits”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

📌 Linked by aggregators

2 Google News · Political Wire

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Axios (2 wordings): “Iran's supreme leader orders "maximum" response to any U.S. attack” → “Supreme leader orders 'maximum' response to attack...”
Breitbart (2 wordings): “Iran Threatens ‘Earth-Shattering Blow’… …Vows Red Lines ’Thing of the Past’… …Trump Weighs New Strikes” → “Iran Threatens ‘Earth-Shattering Blow,’ Vows ‘Red Lines Are a Thing of the Past’”
Independent Journal Review (2 wordings): “Iran Leader Orders Geographically Unrestricted Response to Threats” → “Iran's Supreme Leader Orders Response to U.S. or Israeli Threats Without Geographic Limits”

📰 Every outlet's headline 20left to right by AllSides rating

Raw Story🕒 Oct 31, 8 AM ET Iran's top leader hits US with dark new threat: 'Without geographical limitations'
Axios🕒 Oct 31, 8 AM ET Iran's supreme leader orders "maximum" response to any U.S. attack
CBS News🕒 Oct 31, 9 AM ET Iran's supreme leader warns U.S., Israel against new attacks
Los Angeles Times🕒 Oct 31, 2 PM ET Iranian leader threatens immediate response to potential attack
Mediaite🕒 Oct 31, 9 AM ET Iran’s Supreme Leader Threatens Response Without ‘Geographic Limits’ as Report Claims New Strikes Could Come a Day After Midterms
The Independent🕒 Oct 31, 5 PM ET Iran leader says response to attacks would have no 'geographic limits'
Bloomberg🕒 Oct 31, 9 AM ET Iran’s Khamenei Orders Military to Expand US Retaliation Plans
Financial Times🕒 Oct 31, 10 AM ET Iran warns it will retaliate without ‘geographical limitations’ if attacked
Fortune🕒 Nov 1, 10 PM ET As Trump eyes new attack, Iran vows to retaliate beyond the Mideast and target financial assets, while oil markets brace for generational damage
News Nation🕒 Oct 31, 2 PM ET Iran's Supreme Leader threatens US with response if strikes are launched after midterms
Newsweek🕒 Oct 31, 1 PM ET Khamenei Orders Iran Military Response ‘Without Geographical Limitations’
Straight Arrow News🕒 Oct 31, 4 PM ET US attacks on Iran will be met with ‘impactful,’ ‘geographically unrestricted’ response: Supreme Leader
The Hill🕒 Oct 31, 1 PM ET Iran’s Supreme Leader threatens US with response if strikes are launched ...
The Sun🕒 Oct 31, 6 PM ET REGIME'S THREAT Iran’s Supreme Leader issues warning to US & vows response to any threats
Washington Examiner🕒 Oct 31, 1 PM ET Iranian supreme leader vows ‘unrestricted response’ to any US or Israeli strikes
Breitbart🕒 Nov 1, 9 AM ET Iran Threatens ‘Earth-Shattering Blow’… …Vows Red Lines ’Thing of the Past’… …Trump Weighs New Strikes
IJR🕒 Oct 31, 10 AM ET Iran Leader Orders Geographically Unrestricted Response to Threats
Newsmax🕒 Oct 31, 10 AM ET Iran Warns of Retaliation as War Fears Grow
Red State🕒 Oct 31, 2 PM ET Report: Iran's Supreme Leader Issues Warning to US in Meeting With Top Military Chiefs
The National Desk🕒 Oct 31, 3 PM ET Iran’s leader threatens retaliation without limits as Trump weighs new strikes

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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⚖️ Bloomberg News Now 2

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what people online made of it

🧩 How it's being told

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🧩 The vow 🫏 2 left shows 🧶 online
“Iran is prepared to launch an immediate, impactful, and geographically unrestricted response to threats.” and 1 more
🧩 War drums 🫏 2 left shows 🧶 online
↔️ its answer: Saber-rattling
“Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu held a call to discuss potential military strikes against Iran.” and 1 more

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

IranIsraelSupreme Leader of IranKhameneiIranian Military

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

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