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Two missiles strike Iran's Qeshm Island, Tasnim news agency says

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CAIRO, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency said on Saturday initial reports indicated that two missiles had struck Qeshm Island, adding there was no official information on possible damage.

Tasnim said further details would be released once relevant authorities confirmed the incident.

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The state news agency IRNA had earlier reported that local witnesses said two projectiles had struck the Suza area of Qeshm Island in southern Iran after the sound of an aircraft was heard over the island.

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The article never says who fired the missiles. Trump confirmed that US forces had carried out what he called minor strikes on Iranian air defence systems on Qeshm Island. American outlets had already reported US 'defensive strikes' in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, when Iranian media reported explosions on the same island. Without this, a reader takes the attacker to be unknown and reads the Qatari passage about talks as unrelated to the strike, when it was a US strike carried out while the talks were going on.

How we know

On Saturday, Qatar’s International Media Office denied circulating reports that the United States and Iran had failed to reach an agreement to end their war, describing these allegations as false and misleading. It said the Qatari prime minister had affirmed that both sides continue to work toward an agreement.

The statement added that Qatar’s mediation efforts are ongoing, in close coordination with Washington and Tehran, to support the negotiations.

Reporting by Enas Alashray and Ahmed Tolba; Editing by Rod Nickel

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What we found (1)

Reuters reports, citing Tasnim and IRNA, that two missiles struck the Suza area of Qeshm Island after an aircraft was heard overhead, then turns to Qatar's denial that US-Iran talks had failed. It attributes every claim carefully. It never says who fired the missiles, although the same day President Trump confirmed US strikes on Qeshm, and American media had reported US strikes in the area earlier that week.

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    The article never says who fired the missiles. Trump confirmed that US forces had carried out what he called minor strikes on Iranian air defence systems on Qeshm Island. American outlets had already reported US 'defensive strikes' in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, when Iranian media reported explosions on the same island. Without this, a reader takes the attacker to be unknown and reads the Qatari passage about talks as unrelated to the strike, when it was a US strike carried out while the talks were going on.

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  • “local witnesses said two projectiles had struck the Suza area of Qeshm Island in southern Iran after the sound of an aircraft was heard over the island”

    Reuters attributes the eyewitness account to IRNA and keeps the detail of the aircraft overhead. It does not treat the Iranian state media report as needing more proof than any other source.

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