BND - U.S.-Iran military conflict

🧵 Saga file #35

U.S.-Iran military conflict

Oct 5, 1 PM ET to Oct 31, 5 AM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now

9parts so far
48outlets carried a part
🫏20 · 8 · 19🐘left · center · right
25.7 daysrunning so far
77 minof TV captions
19radio newscasts
89people retold it online

🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.

each part on the front pages, hour by hour

Front pages carrying each part at each hourly run, Oct 5, 1 PM to Oct 31, 5 AM ET (peak 27), stacked by part: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9

Its parts 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 part 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

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

Fri Oct 30 The war is escalating 1 ✨ After the election 1
Thu Oct 29 ✨ Short-term war miscalculation 1 ✨ Confidently wrong 1 ✨ Where our tax dollars go 1 ✨ The war hits your wallet 1
Sun Oct 25 Assassination plot 1
Sat Oct 24 ✨ Assassination plot 1
Fri Oct 16 ✨ The war is escalating 1 ✨ Saber-rattling 1

what people online made of it, part by part

U.S. intelligence warns that Iran is in advanced stages of planning attacks on Americans in the Middle East. told by 17 people, on “U.S. intelligence warns Iranian plots against Americans have reached advanced stages”
U.S. intelligence warns that Iran is in advanced stages of planning assassination plots against American officials. told by 7 people, on “U.S. intelligence warns Iranian plots against Americans have reached advanced stages”
Donald Trump says the war with Iran will end when he wants it to end. told by 6 people, on “U.S. warns allies of possible Iran strikes after midterms”
Donald Trump started a war in Iran to enrich himself and his associates. told by 9 people, on “Pentagon estimates Iran war cost at 47.1 billion”
Trump is preparing an insane war plan against Iran that will lead to devastating escalation and the destruction of the rule of law. told by 8 people, on “Pentagon estimates Iran war cost at 47.1 billion”
Donald Trump's war in Iran is costing taxpayers billions and driving up prices for gas and food. told by 42 people, on “Pentagon estimates Iran war cost at 47.1 billion”

U.S.-Iran military conflict

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