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U.S.-Iran Diplomatic Negotiations

This thread follows the various mediation efforts and talks involving Qatar, Iran, and the U.S. to end the war.

Oct 24, 11 AM ET to Nov 14, 6 PM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now

🧵 One thread of The US–Iran war: a turn of it told across days. A local AI model reads every story of the affair once a week and names its threads; new stories join hourly in between. A thread can hold a story that belongs elsewhere, or more than one turn.

8stories so far
52outlets carried one
🫏19 · 11 · 20🐘left · center · right
21.3 daysrunning so far
172 minof TV captions
18radio newscasts
71people retold it online

each story on the front pages, hour by hour

Front pages carrying each story at each hourly run, Oct 24, 11 AM to Nov 14, 6 PM ET (peak 51), stacked by story: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8

Its stories in the order of their latest news, each from when we first saw it on a front page to when we last did; beneath, the TV captions, radio newscasts and retellings, each in the color of the story it was about. Hover for details.

in the order of their latest news, each in its color on the charts; the bar is the outlets that carried it. 🔴 on the front pages now, 📄 a page of its own, 🗄️ older than a week

each day’s news in an outlet’s own headline, in the color of its story

1
Oct 23, 7 PM ET
“Trump Says US May Do ‘Another Little Epic Fury’ Targeting Iran”
The Epoch Times
2
Oct 25, 4 PM ET
“Trump Says Decision Nearing on Iran: Deal or ‘Finish It Off’”
Bloomberg
2
Oct 26, 1 PM ET
“US has plans for major Iran strikes if Trump chooses”
CNN
4
Oct 30, 10 AM ET
“Qatari mediators return to Tehran for talks”
The Washington Times
4
Oct 31, 12 PM ET
“Qatar held talks aimed at restarting U.S.-Iran negotiations: Source”
CNBC
4
Nov 1, 8 AM ET
“Iranian Negotiators Continue Talks to End the US-Iran War”
Newsmax
5
Nov 2, 5 PM ET
“Trump Says Iran Wants A Deal ‘And It Could Happen’”
Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
5
Nov 3, 2 AM ET
“Trump Says ‘No’ to More Strikes on Iran After Midterms, Hints at Settlement”
The Epoch Times
6
Nov 8, 2 PM ET
“Trump: Iran Attack Unlikely If Talks Progress”
Newsmax
6
Nov 9, 6 PM ET
“Trump says 'Iran is militarily effectively over'”
Just the News
6
Nov 10, 4 AM ET
“Trump Signals New Iran Strikes Unnecessary After Qatar Meeting”
Bloomberg
6
Nov 11, 3 PM ET
“Trump says 'we won' Iran war during Veterans Day service”
BBC
8
Nov 12, 9 AM ET
“Trump orders Vance to focus on "corruption" in Democrat-run areas, not Iran”
Axios
7
Nov 13, 12 AM ET
“Trump: US could destroy Iran’s infrastructure in three days if I chose”
News Nation
7
Nov 14, 8 AM ET
“Trump tells advisers he may hold off on Iran attacks barring new provocations, sources say”
Reuters

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

Sat Nov 14 ✨ Tail wags the dog 1
Fri Nov 13 ✨ Palace intrigue 1 ✨ Clipping the heir's wings 1
Tue Nov 10 ✨ Oil market instability 1
Thu Nov 5 ✨ Arsonist firefighter 1 ✨ Convenient timing 1 ✨ The war hits your wallet 1
Wed Nov 4 ✨ Blood money 1
Mon Nov 2 Saber-rattling 1 War drums 1
Tue Oct 27 Saber-rattling 1 War drums 1
Thu Oct 15 ✨ Saber-rattling 1 ✨ War drums 1
Wed Oct 7 ✨ Mission accomplished 1

what people online made of it, story by story

🧶 told by 7 on “Trump claims Iran war is effectively over, cites Qatar and Saudi support”

🧶 told by 9 on “Trump directs Vance to focus on domestic corruption instead of Iran talks”

🧶 told by 55 on “Trump directs Vance to focus on domestic corruption instead of Iran talks” 🧩 Clipping the heir's wings

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