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Each card below is one coalition with its own frame on the same contested phenomenon.
Weekly attributed-headline count per narrative. Visual asymmetry is signal: some coalitions dominate the vocabulary, others stay sporadic.
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Distinct conflicts with their own coalitions. Headlines that fit here do not show in the umbrella above.
Iran and its regional partners describe the network of allied armed groups as the "Axis of Resistance" — a legitimate "liberation" movement against Israeli "occupation" of Palestinian and Lebanese territory and against Western "imperial" presence in the region. Hezbollah is framed as Lebanon's defender against Israeli aggression and the only force that liberated southern Lebanon from Israeli occupation in 2000. Hamas is framed as the legitimate Palestinian resistance to occupation and the Gaza siege. The Houthis are framed as defenders of Yemen against Saudi and UAE aggression and as actors in solidarity with Palestinians under Israeli "genocide". The IRGC Quds Force, Iraqi PMF, and Syrian-aligned militias are framed as defenders of regional sovereignty against US "foreign occupation" — including the 28,500 US troops in Iraq and Syria and the 5,500 in Lebanon-region naval presence. Iranian state framing positions the support of these groups as a "moral duty" of solidarity with oppressed Muslims and as Iran's contribution to regional self-determination. Western and Israeli operations against the network — assassinations of commanders, drone strikes, the 2025-2026 escalation — are framed as "state terrorism" and "war crimes" against legitimate political-military actors. The narrative prescribes: continued material support to the network, refusal of any framework that designates these groups as terrorist, and political-diplomatic pressure for international recognition of Palestinian and Lebanese resistance rights.
Iran
Levant
Palestine
YemenThe US-Israel-Saudi-UAE coalition describes the Iranian and Houthi strikes on Gulf states and US presence as "state-sponsored aggression" against sovereign nations. The 2019 Aramco strike, the 2022 UAE attacks, the 2025-2026 strikes on Saudi pipelines, UAE air-defence systems, and US bases are framed as Iran-directed acts of war that demand accountability. US service members killed at Tower 22, at Al Udeid, at Al Asad — each death is framed as an unacceptable cost requiring proportionate response. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are framed as victims of Iranian terror — sovereign Arab states attacked on their own territory by Iranian-backed forces. Houthi attacks on Saudi airspace and oil infrastructure are framed not as Yemeni civil war but as Iranian regional projection through proxy. The narrative explicitly rejects the asymmetric-deterrence framing as moral equivalence: hosting US bases is not complicity, and US-Israeli operations against Iran do not justify Iranian retaliation against third parties. The narrative prescribes: military retaliation against Iranian and Houthi leadership and capability, sustained sanctions on Iranian missile and drone programs, FTO designation of the Houthi movement, and integrated Gulf-Israeli air-defence cooperation as a force multiplier.
United States
Israel
Saudi Arabia