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Proof: Iran says it's up to Trump to choose between diplomacy or war

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{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T10:31:33Z","headline":"Iran says it's up to Trump to choose between diplomacy or war","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"cbsnews","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/iran-war-us-trump-talks-strait-of-hormuz/","v":1}

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SHA-256

87cf5d450d1aebf04030b5a46b43c1dcecbf557792620e90685a3f555df93e1c

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968982, mined 2026-09-28 10:38 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 10:34 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 09:34 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-87cf5d450d1a.json prints 87cf5d450d1aebf04030b5a46b43c1dcecbf557792620e90685a3f555df93e1c. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-87cf5d450d1a.json and headline-87cf5d450d1a.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-87cf5d450d1a.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, 1 min after it was first seen.