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Proof: UK says ‘strong indication’ Iran was involved in incident at air base housing US forces

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The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-30T16:21:36Z","headline":"UK says ‘strong indication’ Iran was involved in incident at air base housing US forces","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"cnn","url":"https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/30/uk/suspect-police-terrorism-uk-base-fairford-intl-hnk","v":1}

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SHA-256

90e1cc1d8c573692e22b2607480dfb5d728c8d6857849b7e85d142f80f1a5e42

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969327, mined 2026-09-30 17:31 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-30 16:38 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-30 16:39 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-90e1cc1d8c57.json prints 90e1cc1d8c573692e22b2607480dfb5d728c8d6857849b7e85d142f80f1a5e42. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-90e1cc1d8c57.json and headline-90e1cc1d8c57.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-90e1cc1d8c57.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.

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