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Proof: Trump says US officials met Iran war mediators

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{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T19:32:41Z","headline":"Trump says US officials met Iran war mediators","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"aljazeera","url":"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/9/28/iran-war-live-tehran-warns-its-fully-prepared-for-war-amid-hormuz-tensions","v":1}

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SHA-256

47005f34dbf214fba5f99cd529c7f3a27455795fad6ce029fa55907886ed08e8

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969044, mined 2026-09-28 20:13 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 20:53 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 19:39 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-47005f34dbf2.json prints 47005f34dbf214fba5f99cd529c7f3a27455795fad6ce029fa55907886ed08e8. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-47005f34dbf2.json and headline-47005f34dbf2.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-47005f34dbf2.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 4 min after it was first seen.