43 sources checked · Left, Center, and Right included · 1h ago
Trump said in January that he had given “very firm instructions” to “wipe them off the face of this Earth” if Iran ever tried to assassinate him.
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43 sources across Left, Center, and Right all describe the same event.
89/99 — headlines create a clearly different first impression.
WHAT EACH SIDE EMPHASIZED
The Independent · Center-left · News report
Euronews · Center · News report
Daily Sabah (Turkey) · Right · News report
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Trump said in January that he had given “very firm instructions” to “wipe them off the face of this Earth” if Iran ever tried to assassinate him.
Thousands gathered to mourn Khamenei, with several waving regime’s flag and chanting ‘Death to America’
Several senior officials made rare public appearances after the war, while Iran's new supreme leader remained out of public view.
Iran’s new supreme leader shares his late father’s “positive” view of relations with China, Tehran’s ambassador told a security forum in Beijing at the weekend. Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli also...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's top officials and brothers of the country's new supreme leader emerged into public view Sunday to attend the funeral prayers for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,...
Iran’s top officials and brothers of the country’s new supreme leader have emerged into public view to attend the funeral prayers for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Three sons of the former Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed beside his coffin and those of four other family members on Sunday, but Mojtaba, the son who has succeeded him as Ir...
Iranian leaders gathered Sunday for a second day of funeral ceremonies for late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, as the absence of his son and designated successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, d...
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During the state funeral prayers for his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and four family members, Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, chose to remain out of the public eye. Citing...
State television showed three of Ali Khamenei's sons, Mostafa, Meysam and Masoud Khamenei, standing behind their father's coffin during funeral prayers at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Grand Mosal...
A Chinese pastor has been released from jail after Donald Trump intervened to get him freed, in what his family have described as a "miracle".
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian attended the ceremony on Sunday, accompanied by Iranian allies and members of the team currently negotiating with the US after an initial ceasefire in th...
America has always been a country of hustlers. In 2008 we elected Barack Obama, a serial memoirist with no functional experience who hustled his way to the White House after trouncing an es...
Three sons of killed ayatollah were seen beside coffin during ceremonies drawing huge crowds in Tehran Three sons of the former Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed beside his coffi...
There has still been no public sighting or image released of Mojtaba, said to have been injured in the attack that killed his father and the other family members on Feb. 28.
The funeral began on Saturday in Tehran with chants of "death to America, death to Israel," and his body is expected to be taken to Qom, Najaf and Kerbala, the great Shi'ite centers of Iran...
Khamenei's coffin was displayed outdoors on Saturday under glass, along with those of his daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law and 14-month-old granddaughter.
More than 10 million people are expected to take part in ceremonies in Tehran.
Neither civilization nor honour Iran hits back after Trumps oneshot threat
DONALD Trump has warned that a "one shot" strike could take out Iranian chiefs gathered at Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's funeral. The US president's comments come amid reports that the new Supre...
As days of public mourning ceremonies began, Iranians viewed the casket of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at the start of the U.S.-Israeli attacks.
Tehran metro records seven million trips for Khamenei funeral Tehran’s metro system recorded more than 7 million passenger trips between Saturday evening and Sunday morning as large crowds...
Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri was detained with 17 other church leaders in October in one of China’s largest crackdowns on a single church in decades.
Comment represents the first, direct call for Trump’s death by an emcee at the funeral
Donald Trump commemorated the 250th anniversary of American independence, a moment he declared “one of the most joyous and glorious milestones of all time”.
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
A performer at the funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people Sunda...
Iran’s top officials and brothers of the country’s new supreme leader have emerged into public view to attend the funeral prayers for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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Now: Wording Gap is 89/99 and story health is stable · 43 sources · all three buckets · comparable news format.