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Day 100 of the Iran-USA war: Iranian missiles on Bahrain and Kuwait, U.S. drones in Hormuz, the April ceasefire in tatters

THE FACTSBY COUNTRYSIDE BY SIDE BLIND SPOTS

Australia

3 SOURCES

Domestic-cost voice · 2 of 11 countries

Sydney reads Hormuz as a barrel-price bomb forcing Australia to choose between U.S. alignment and domestic cost

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Brazil

4 SOURCES

European and Brazilian equidistance voice · 3 of 11 countries

Brasília tracks the sequence as a test of the Gulf's supposed pacification and insists on the inflationary cost for the Global South

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Egypt

3 SOURCES

Official Arab voice · 4 of 11 countries

Cairo condemns with the official Arab voice but protects its citizens wounded in Kuwait, signaling an exposed diaspora

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United States

4 SOURCES

Pentagon-centric voice · 2 of 11 countries

Washington documents the failure of the ceasefire in figures and interceptions — without naming any political exit from the war

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France

3 SOURCES

European and Brazilian equidistance voice · 3 of 11 countries

Paris tracks the mechanics of the two retaliatory rounds and folds in the Lebanese crisis as an acknowledged side-effect

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India

4 SOURCES

Domestic-cost voice · 2 of 11 countries

New Delhi files a "fresh escalation" and weaves the Gulf war into its own energy interests

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Iran

incl. 1 state outlet

3 SOURCES

Iranian-Russian defiance voice · 2 of 11 countries

Tehran frames the retaliation as a minute-by-minute military chronicle, with the full closure of Hormuz held as the next escalation if Washington continues

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Israel

3 SOURCES

Pentagon-centric voice · 2 of 11 countries

Tel Aviv reads the Hormuz-Bahrain-Kuwait sequence as proof that Iran can now only reach symbolic targets

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Italy

3 SOURCES

European and Brazilian equidistance voice · 3 of 11 countries

Rome describes the battle as a war of radars and drops a diplomatic bombshell: Washington suspects Israel is spying on its envoy Witkoff

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Qatar

incl. 1 state outlet

3 SOURCES

Official Arab voice · 4 of 11 countries

Doha aligns the GCC behind Kuwait and Bahrain and ratchets up the diplomatic condemnation one notch

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Russia

incl. 2 state outlets

3 SOURCES

Iranian-Russian defiance voice · 2 of 11 countries

Moscow puts Rosneft at the center of the narrative and turns Hormuz chaos into proof that alternative diplomacy runs through Russia and China

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DAY 100 OF THE IRAN-USA WAR: IRANIAN MISSILES ON BAHRAIN AND KUWAIT, U.S. DRONES IN HORMUZ, THE APRIL CEASEFIRE IN TATTERS

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Day 100 of the Iran-USA war: Iranian missiles on Bahrain and Kuwait, U.S. drones in Hormuz, the April ceasefire in tatters | The Refract

This number is the probability that two countries picked at random frame the event differently. Each country is assigned ONE frame among four possible readings of the story, and the score measures how spread out those choices are. A low score means the countries read the event the same way — not that they agree on the facts or the figures.