📰 Spread

each part on the front pages, hour by hour

🧩 How it's been told

the stories under the saga, day by day, from our motif index: each day its most-told, wider for more tellers, colored by genre (✨ new to the saga that day)

• 🎭Archetypesa kind of person
• 📜Plotswhat happened
• 🪨Beliefsa premise
• 🕵️Theorieswhat people think is behind it
• 🗣️Argumentsa move in an argument

1. Thu Nov 12 ✨ Chickens come home to roost 1
2. Wed Nov 11 The buck stops here 1Oil market instability 1Inflation 1The war hits your wallet 1
3. Tue Nov 10 Oil market instability 2The buck stops here 1Confidently wrong 1Inflation 1The war hits your wallet 1
4. Mon Nov 9 ✨ Unpopular war 1✨ Might makes right 1✨ The finger-pointing begins 1
5. Fri Nov 6 Oil market instability 1
6. Thu Nov 5 ✨ Convenient timing 2✨ Arsonist firefighter 1Saber-rattling 1The war hits your wallet 1✨ Talks as a trap 1
7. Wed Nov 4 The buck stops here 1Oil market instability 1Tail wags the dog 1Schrödinger's joke 1Inflation 1
8. Tue Nov 3 The buck stops here 1Oil market instability 1Tail wags the dog 1Inflation 1The vow 1
9. Mon Nov 2 War drums 2The buck stops here 1Oil market instability 1The war is escalating 1✨ Tail wags the dog 1
10. Sun Nov 1 ✨ The vow 2✨ Passing the buck 1War drums 1
11. Fri Oct 30 The war is escalating 1✨ Pants on fire 1War profiteer 1✨ The family business 1✨ Threat inflation 1
12. Thu Oct 29 Confidently wrong 2✨ Short-term war miscalculation 1✨ Where our tax dollars go 1The war hits your wallet 1
13. Wed Oct 28 Confidently wrong 1
14. Tue Oct 27 The buck stops here 1✨ Pain at the pump 1✨ War profiteer 1Saber-rattling 1War drums 1

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it, part by part

• The IRGC reports that tankers and a tugboat caught fire after hitting mines in the Strait of Hormuz and that they seized two US drones via electronic warfare. told by 9 people, on “U.S. military conducts defensive strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island”
• The IRGC Navy is attacking tankers in the Strait of Hormuz to disrupt international shipping and enforce Iranian control. told by 8 people, on “U.S. conducts minor strikes on Iranian targets near Strait of Hormuz”
• Marco Rubio's defense of Donald Trump's war against Iran may have sunk his political ambitions. told by 6 people, on “Trump and Rubio defend Iran war amid GOP midterm losses”
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Iranian demands are outrageous and unrealistic as U.S.-Iran talks make little progress. told by 6 people, on “Trump and Rubio defend Iran war amid GOP midterm losses”
• Oil prices fell because Donald Trump signaled that new strikes on Iran are highly unlikely. told by 7 people, on “Trump claims Iran war is effectively over, cites Qatar and Saudi support”
• Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent relocated to a military base due to Iranian threats against his life. told by 20 people, on “Treasury Secretary Bessent moves to military base over Iranian threats”