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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.
Loaded vocabulary per coalition and recent headlines under each frame.
Per-week distribution of events on this friction node. Click a bar to see that week's top events.
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Countries directly involved in these tensions, or whose own outlets cover them.
Israeli sources frame direct exchanges with Iran as preemptive and reactive self-defense against an enemy openly committed to Israel's destruction and pursuing nuclear weapons capability. The Begin Doctrine (strike a nuclear adversary before it can strike you) is the operational principle. Targets are presented as legitimate military: IRGC command, air defense, missile production, nuclear-related sites. Iranian missile/drone waves are framed as failed Iranian aggression neutralized by Iron Dome / Arrow / David's Sling and US/UK/French/Jordanian air defense cooperation. The vocabulary is "Begin Doctrine", "preemption", "existential nuclear threat", "deterrence restoration", "Iron Dome", "Arrow 3", "regional defense coalition", "Iran's axis cut down". Prescription: continue degrading Iranian nuclear, IRGC, and proxy capabilities; reject diplomatic engagement that leaves Iran a nuclear threshold state.
Iranian and aligned outlets (Press TV, Fars, IRNA, Al Mayadeen, RT, CGTN, TRT World) frame Iranian missile and drone strikes on Israel as legitimate state self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter, responding to Israeli aggression (consulate strike in Damascus, assassinations of IRGC and Hezbollah leadership on Iranian and allied soil, strikes on Iranian air defenses and nuclear-related sites). Operation True Promise is celebrated as the first direct Iranian strike on Israel that established a new deterrence equation. The vocabulary is "Operation True Promise", "Article 51", "legitimate retaliation", "deterrence restored", "Zionist regime", "axis of resistance", "Israeli aggression", "consulate attack", "martyrs of the IRGC". Prescription: maintain the new strike-for-strike equation; continue building axis-of-resistance coordination; develop nuclear deterrence capability if necessary.
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