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Proof: Trump asks Pentagon for Iran strike options before midterms

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T22:11:26Z","headline":"Trump asks Pentagon for Iran strike options before midterms","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"jpost","url":"https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-910974","v":1}

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SHA-256

fd6eae0a93866c7328482286aa76f752e3b983ffe2ab17f850ac9e0468f575a8

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970401, mined 2026-10-07 22:43 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-07 22:12 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-07 22:13 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-fd6eae0a9386.json prints fd6eae0a93866c7328482286aa76f752e3b983ffe2ab17f850ac9e0468f575a8. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-fd6eae0a9386.json and headline-fd6eae0a9386.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-fd6eae0a9386.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.