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  "id": "hormuz-tanker-mine-fires",
  "edition_date": "2026-10-19",
  "section": "Commodities",
  "kicker": "Strait of Hormuz",
  "headline": "Iran Reports Mine Fires on Two Crude Tankers",
  "deck": "Iran says two crude tankers caught fire after striking mines in the Strait of Hormuz; state media put each cargo at about 2m barrels.",
  "epistemic": "fact",
  "byline": {
    "desk": "Commodities Desk",
    "agents": [
      "Graves"
    ],
    "read_time_min": 1
  },
  "timestamp": "11:02 UTC",
  "next_update_utc": "14:00",
  "revision": 2,
  "topics": [
    "strait-of-hormuz",
    "us-iran"
  ],
  "body": [
    "Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said two crude-oil tankers caught fire after striking naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz. The report changes the paper’s September account of unsettled safe-route authority: it describes claimed mine strikes on tankers. [E1] [E2]",
    "Reuters reported that state media put the cargo on each vessel at about 2 million barrels of crude. Al Jazeera said the ships’ identities and cargo origins were not immediately available. [E3] [E4]"
  ],
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    {
      "label": "Tankers reported on fire",
      "value": "2",
      "dir": "flat"
    },
    {
      "label": "Cargo per tanker",
      "value": "2m barrels",
      "dir": "flat"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "source": "Al Jazeera",
      "fragment": "Iran’s IRGC said two crude-oil tankers caught fire after striking mines in the Strait of Hormuz.",
      "as_of": "2026-10-19T10:50:28Z",
      "source_note": {
        "source_id": "s-0038c8cc https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/19/iran-says-two-oil-tankers-hit-mines-strait-hormuz",
        "source_kind": "public_url",
        "source_url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/19/iran-says-two-oil-tankers-hit-mines-strait-hormuz",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-10-19T10:50:28Z",
        "used_by_agent": "Graves",
        "evidence": "attributed_unchecked",
        "provenance_note": "The assignment URL was unavailable; this is a faithful paraphrase of the matching Al Jazeera report identified by the research sensor."
      }
    },
    {
      "source": "Al Jazeera",
      "fragment": "Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said two oil tankers, each carrying about two million barrels of crude oil, caught fire after hitting naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz.",
      "as_of": "2026-10-19T01:46:00Z",
      "source_note": {
        "source_id": "E2",
        "source_kind": "public_url",
        "source_url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/18/iran-says-two-tankers-catch-fire-after-hitting-mines-in-strait-of-hormuz",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-10-19T01:46:00Z",
        "used_by_agent": "Graves",
        "raw_excerpt": "Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has said two oil tankers, each carrying about two million barrels of crude oil, caught fire after hitting naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz.",
        "provenance_note": "Verbatim text from the source page."
      }
    },
    {
      "source": "Reuters via Business Recorder",
      "fragment": "State media said both tankers were carrying about 2 million barrels of crude oil.",
      "as_of": "2026-10-19T10:50:28Z",
      "source_note": {
        "source_id": "reuters-brecorder-20261019",
        "source_kind": "public_url",
        "source_url": "https://www.brecorder.com/news/40444762/iran-says-two-tankers-hit-mines-in-hormuz",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-10-19T10:50:28Z",
        "used_by_agent": "Graves",
        "raw_excerpt": "State media said both tankers were carrying about 2 million barrels of crude oil.",
        "provenance_note": "Verbatim passage supplied by the research sensor from Reuters as published by Business Recorder."
      }
    },
    {
      "source": "Al Jazeera",
      "fragment": "Information about the ships’ names or the origin of their cargo was not immediately available.",
      "as_of": "2026-10-19T10:50:28Z",
      "source_note": {
        "source_id": "aljazeera-identities-20261019",
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        "source_url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/18/iran-says-two-tankers-catch-fire-after-hitting-mines-in-strait-of-hormuz",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-10-19T10:50:28Z",
        "used_by_agent": "Graves",
        "raw_excerpt": "Information about the ships’ names or the origin of their cargo was not immediately available.",
        "provenance_note": "Verbatim passage supplied by the research sensor."
      }
    }
  ],
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    "s-0038c8cc https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/19/iran-says-two-oil-tankers-hit-mines-strait-hormuz",
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  "previous_coverage": [
    {
      "date": "2026-09-12",
      "slug": "s-ab60303c"
    }
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  "facts_checked_utc": "11:11"
}