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Proof: Trump offers Iran war naysayers an extreme endgame: ‘Let them hit us with a nuclear weapon’

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{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T22:52:48Z","headline":"Trump offers Iran war naysayers an extreme endgame: ‘Let them hit us with a nuclear weapon’","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"independent","url":"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-nuke-gas-prices-b3057894.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

c39550277870607edf0fc24791551998544fdd4d708a25d53d537c9eeff3b307

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969061, mined 2026-09-28 23:00 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 22:57 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 22:57 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-c39550277870.json prints c39550277870607edf0fc24791551998544fdd4d708a25d53d537c9eeff3b307. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-c39550277870.json and headline-c39550277870.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-c39550277870.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.