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Query
How they overlap
Of the articles on each keyword in the last 7 days, with the same text and sources, how many also mention the other. Per lean: the share of its outlets' articles on Iran that mention Middle East.
1.9% of the 154 articles on Iran also mention Middle East, as do 60.0% of the 5 articles on Middle East.
- Left-leaning2 of 58 articles
- 3.5%
- Least biased0 of 12 articles
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning1 of 84 articles
- 1.2%
Who picked it up when
CBS News mentioned it first (Oct 22, 2026, 10:51 AM EDT). Left-leaning outlets followed 21 hours later. No least biased outlet mentioned it.
One row per source with a matching article, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.
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Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Results
3 articles mention Iran and Middle East in the last 7 days (Oct 21 to Oct 27).
| Article | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| PBS NewsHour | U.S. is reducing staffing at 4 Middle East embassies over increased threats from IranPBS NewsHour In a memo sent Friday to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton said his teams "have received intelligence that Iran has substantially increased efforts to target U.S. personnel." | 0.70● | |
| NPR | Military reinforcements move to Mideast. And, millions of Americans vote earlyNPR Military reinforcements are heading to the Middle East and some personnel have left the region, pointing to a potential attack on Iran. And, millions of Americans have already voted in the midterms. | 0.65 | |
| CBS News | Why the U.S. military is quietly moving some troops away from posts in the Middle EastCBS News The U.S. military has been quietly reducing its footprint at posts in the Middle East due to ongoing threats from Iran and Yemen's Houthi rebels, officials tell CBS News. CBS News' Ramy Inocencio has more details. | 0.60 |
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Narrow further
Other keywords in the matching articles: the share of them that mention each, with the number of articles. The search icon searches for Iran and that keyword instead of Middle East, keeping the text, sources, source type and time range.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories in the last 7 days that match the query, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| NPR | 0.9% | 1 | 107 |
| PBS NewsHour | 0.7% | 1 | 139 |
| CBS News | 0.2% | 1 | 419 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that match the query, in the last 7 days, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning2 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
- Least biased0 of 8 sources
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning1 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
Lean index −2.6: covered more by left-leaning outlets
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that match the query. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
1 source has no MBFC bias score and is not shown.
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.