UK court finds two Iranian men guilty of spying for Iran
- Newsrooms
- 6
- Last 3 hours
- 3 reports
- Momentum
- Steady
3 in the 3 before
Emerging
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Slowing. Likely 5 to 7 newsrooms by 9:19am AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 90% of the past week’s 4164 stories, and number 161 of 1895 in News.
1Two Iranian men have been found guilty of spying on dissident journalists in Britain on behalf of Iranian intelligence. Mostafa Sepahvand, 41, and Farhad Javadi Manesh, 46, were found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court of engaging in conduct likely to assist Iran’s intelligence service. The pair
Al Jazeera didn’t include a summary, so this is GB News’s, from its report on the same story.3
The story so far
6 newsroomsEmerging- Reports
- 6
- Newsrooms and sources
- 6
- Last 3 hours
- 3
Emerging: new in the last few hours and still picking up reports (3 in the last three hours, 3 in the three before).
First with it: GB News, 1 hr 9 min before anyone else.
Reported by 6 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
- Newsrooms
- 6
- Over
- 3.8 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 1.4 hr
Newsrooms on it each counted once
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 10:30pm AEDT | GB News | 1 |
| 11:38pm AEDT | BBC News | 2 |
| 11:52pm AEDT | The Independent | 3 |
| 1:07am AEDT | The Guardian | 4 |
| 1:54am AEDT | The Mirror | 5 |
| 2:15am AEDT | Al Jazeera | 6 |



