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Proof: Iran denies involvement in UK airbase bomb scare

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T13:21:34Z","headline":"Iran denies involvement in UK airbase bomb scare","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"gulfnews","url":"https://gulfnews.com/world/mena/us-iran-conflict-tehran-ready-for-diplomacy-or-war-as-trump-expects-new-talks-1.500690117","v":1}

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SHA-256

b8ca9a0af2d9f2b0552668cb505a147d9c20d562c86bd6c1a423dae8fd497820

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969002, mined 2026-09-28 13:30 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 13:38 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: submit: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-b8ca9a0af2d9.json prints b8ca9a0af2d9f2b0552668cb505a147d9c20d562c86bd6c1a423dae8fd497820. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-b8ca9a0af2d9.json and headline-b8ca9a0af2d9.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-b8ca9a0af2d9.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.