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US Apache helicopter downed, CENTCOM strikes Iran: escalation at the Strait of Hormuz

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Argentina

3 SOURCES

Latin America — skepticism on proportionality · 2 of 8 countries

Buenos Aires spots the ratchet: after Trump's threat, a wave of strikes

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Australia

3 SOURCES

Atlantic bloc — proportional response · 3 of 8 countries

Sydney watches Iran and Israel exchange direct blows for the first time since the truce, despite Trump

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Canada

incl. 1 state outlet

3 SOURCES

Atlantic bloc — proportional response · 3 of 8 countries

Ottawa between Apache and World Cup: Iran both military target and persona non grata at the tournament

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United States

3 SOURCES

Atlantic bloc — proportional response · 3 of 8 countries

Washington strikes hard and bypasses the constitutional debate

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France

3 SOURCES

French lens — troubling escalation · 1 of 8 countries

France between strikes and diplomacy: the escalation alarming Gulf states

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India

3 SOURCES

Asia-Pacific — energy security lens · 2 of 8 countries

New Delhi monitors the Strait: 78 days of Iran-US war already cost Indian refineries ₹1.23 lakh crore

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Israel

3 SOURCES

Israeli angle — critical support · 1 of 8 countries

Tel Aviv between satisfaction and strategic uncertainty: striking and negotiating — is that coherent?

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Russia

incl. 1 state outlet

3 SOURCES

Russian reading — Western double standard · 1 of 8 countries

Moscow reads US strikes as aggression and sees negotiations under bombardment as incoherent

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US Apache helicopter downed, CENTCOM strikes Iran: escalation at the Strait of Hormuz | 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.