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Saudi officials accuse Iran of encouraging Houthi attacks

Oct 15, 9 PM ET to Oct 16, 11 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

6outlets carried it
🫏3 · 1 · 1🐘left · center · right
14 hourson the front pages
6front pages at once, at its peak
10 of 14parts of a saga

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 15, 9 PM ETfirst on a front page: Breitbart
Oct 15, 9 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 15, 9 PM to Oct 16, 11 AM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

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. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (PBS NewsHour)

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty (3 wordings): “LIVE Saudis Accuse Iran Of Encouraging Houthi Attacks On Riyadh” → “4 Saudis Accuse Iran Of Encouraging Houthi Attacks On Riyadh”

Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

AP Saudi diplomat says Iran encourages Houthi escalation of attacks on the kingdom Oct 15, 8 PM ET
CBS News How Iran made the Houthis into such a problem Oct 13, 11 AM ET
PBS NewsHour Saudi diplomat says Iran is encouraging Houthi escalation of attacks on the kingdom Oct 15, 8 PM ET
Reuters How the Houthis are helping Iran turn Saudi Arabia into a pressure point Oct 15, 11 AM ET
Breitbart Saudis Accuse Iran-Backed Houthi Terrorists of Attacking Islam’s Holy City of Medina Oct 15, 9 PM ET
RFE/RL LIVE Saudis Accuse Iran Of Encouraging Houthi Attacks On Riyadh Oct 15, 12 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📺 The Young Turks

what people online made of it

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

🗣️ names in it: Saudi Arabia Iran Houthi Riyadh Medina

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia

Yemeni forces retake Bab el-Mandeb Strait
Oct 5, 3 PM ET
Houthis attack Saudi oil facility near Riyadh
Oct 4, 2 PM ET
Houthi rebels strike Saudi airport; Trump considers U.S. involvement
Oct 10, 6 PM ET
Delta delays Saudi flights after Riyadh airport attacks
Oct 13, 4 PM ET
Trump warns Houthis over saudi attacks
Oct 14, 12 AM ET
Saudi airport closure extended after Houthi strikes
Oct 14, 7 AM ET
Houthis attack Saudi airports and oil facilities
Oct 15, 9 AM ET
Saudi Arabia launches new strikes against Houthi targets
Oct 15, 8 PM ET
Houthi attacks continue despite Saudi military efforts
Oct 15, 6 AM ET
Saudi officials accuse Iran of encouraging Houthi attacks (this story)
Oct 15, 9 PM ET
Houthi missiles strike Yemeni presidential palace, killing two
Oct 4, 11 AM ET
Saudi Arabia postpones major investment conference to 2027
Oct 19, 1 PM ET
UK to deploy fighter jets to defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks
Oct 20, 8 AM ET
U.S. orders some diplomats to leave Saudi Arabia amid Houthi attacks
Oct 21, 6 PM ET