{"arab-revolt":{"extract":"The Arab Revolt (Arabic: الثورة العربية al-Thawra al-'Arabiyya), also known as the Great Arab Revolt (الثورة العربية الكبرى al-Thawra al-'Arabiyya al-Kubrā), was an armed uprising by the Hashemite-led Arabs of the Hejaz against the Ottoman Empire amidst the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I.\n\nOn the basis of the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence, exchanged between Henry McMahon of the United Kingdom and Hussein bin Ali of the Kingdom of Hejaz, the rebellion against the ruling Turks was officially initiated at Mecca on 10 June 1916. The primary goal of the Arab rebels was to establish an independent and unified Arab state stretching from Aleppo to Aden, which the British government had promised to recognize.\n\nThe Sharifian Army, led by Hussein and the Hashemites with backing from the British military's Egyptian Expeditionary Force, successfully fought and expelled the Ottoman military presence from much of the Hejaz and Transjordan. By 1918, the rebels had captured Damascus and proclaimed the Arab Kingdom of Syria, a short-lived monarchy that was led by Hussein's son Faisal I.\n\nThe Arab-majority Ottoman territories of the Middle East were broken up into a number of League of Nations mandates, jointly controlled by the British and the French. Amidst the partition of the Ottoman Empire, the defeated Ottomans' mainland in Anatolia came under a joint military occupation by the victorious Allies. This was gradually broken by the Turkish War of Independence, which established the present-day Republic of Turkey.\n\nMost Arabs in the Ottoman territories stayed loyal to the local Ottoman authorities, and did not join or support the revolt of Hussein bin Ali. Hussein bin Ali's Arab Revolt army did not play a decisive military role in the war. The liberation was led primarily by British and French forces, with the Arab Revolt forces playing a more limited supporting role.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1380894633,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-10-18T16:11:54Z","data_fixes":[{"ref":"F14","anchor":"f14---eleven-seed-dates-the-article-states-to-the-day-day-precision-recorded-date-unchanged"}],"wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Revolt","wikidata_qid":"Q239060","wikidata_classes":["rebellion","revolt","military operation","armed conflict"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":"country-fallback:Saudi Arabia","text_from_article":null,"hand_picked":true,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":true,"note":"Calls the Allied conquest \"the liberation\" and states as fact that the Arab forces played only a limited role, a point historians debate.","highlights":["The liberation was led primarily by British and French forces"]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[{"text":"The liberation was led primarily by British and French forces","kind":"fairness"}],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"part_of":[{"qid":"Q1765465","label":"Middle Eastern theater of World War I","id":"middle-eastern-theatre-of-world-war-i"}],"includes":[{"id":"battle-of-mecca-1916","title":"Battle of Mecca (1916)","date_start":"1916-06-10"},{"id":"siege-of-medina","title":"Siege of Medina","date_start":"1916-06-10"},{"id":"battle-of-aqaba","title":"Battle of Aqaba","date_start":"1917-07-06"}],"related":{"shared_parent":[{"id":"battle-of-romani","title":"Battle of Romani","date_start":"1916-08-03"},{"id":"first-battle-of-gaza","title":"First Battle of Gaza","date_start":"1917-03-26"},{"id":"stalemate-in-southern-palestine","title":"Stalemate in Southern Palestine","date_start":"1917-04-01"},{"id":"second-battle-of-gaza","title":"Second Battle of Gaza","date_start":"1917-04-17"},{"id":"gallipoli-campaign","title":"Gallipoli campaign","date_start":"1915-02-19"}],"same_time":[{"id":"battle-of-erzincan-1916","title":"Battle of Erzincan (1916)","date_start":"1916-07-02"},{"id":"sykes-picot-agreement","title":"Sykes–Picot Agreement","date_start":"1916-05-16"},{"id":"trebizond-campaign","title":"Trebizond Campaign","date_start":"1916-02-05"},{"id":"battle-of-wadi-1916","title":"Battle of Wadi (1916)","date_start":"1916-01-13"},{"id":"erzurum-offensive","title":"Erzurum offensive","date_start":"1916-01-10"}]}},"iraqi-revolt-against-the-british":{"extract":"The Iraqi Revolt of 1920, also known as the Iraqi War of Independence or Great Iraqi Revolution began in Baghdad in the summer of 1920 with mass demonstrations by Iraqis, including protests by embittered officers from the old Ottoman Army, against the British who published the new land ownership and the burial taxes at Najaf. The revolt gained momentum when it spread to the middle and lower Euphrates.\n\nShia and Sunni religious communities cooperated during the revolution as well as tribal communities, the urban masses, and many Iraqi officers in Syria. The objectives of the revolution were independence from British rule and the creation of an Arab government. The revolt achieved some initial success, but by the end of October 1920, the uprising was suppressed by the British, although elements of it dragged on until 1922.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1381194751,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-10-20T16:20:56Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Revolt","wikidata_qid":"Q616851","wikidata_classes":["revolt","military operation"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":"country-fallback:Iraq","text_from_article":null,"hand_picked":true,"date_precision":null,"framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false}},"battle-of-oltu":{"extract":"The Battles of Oltu were two armed conflicts; the first (18–25 June 1920) took place between Armenia and Turkish militias in the Oltu region, which at this time was part of Armenia. The second battle was fought on 3–5 September 1920, marking the beginning of the Turkish invasion of Armenia, resulting in Turkish forces driving the Armenians out of Oltu.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1370452171,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-08-21T04:51:23Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Oltu","wikidata_qid":"Q4808216","wikidata_classes":["battle"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":"wikipedia","text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"year","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"part_of":[{"qid":"Q957586","label":"Turkish–Armenian War"}]},"karantina-massacre":{"extract":"The Karantina massacre (Arabic: مجزرة الكرنتينا; French: Massacre de La Quarantaine/Karantina) took place on 18 January 1976, early in the Lebanese Civil War. La Quarantine, known in Arabic as \"Karantina\", was a Muslim-inhabited district in mostly Christian East Beirut controlled by forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Lebanese National Movement (LNM), and inhabited by Palestinians, Kurds, Armenians, Syrians, and Lebanese Muslims. The fighting and subsequent killings also involved an old Quarantine area near the port and nearby \"Maslakh\" quarter.\n\nKarantina was overrun by militias of the right-wing and mostly Christian Lebanese Front, primarily the Kataeb Regulatory Forces (KRF) militia of the Kataeb Party (a.k.a. Phalangists), resulting in the deaths of approximately 600–1,500 people. According to then-Washington Post-correspondent Jonathan Randal: \"Many Muslim men and boys were rounded up and separated from the women and children and massacred; while many of the women and young girls were violently raped and murdered.\"\n\nBefore the Karantina massacre, on January 9, 1976, the LNM and the PLO laid siege to the Christian towns of Jieh and Damour, cutting off access to water, food, and medical aid. Mass killings of civilians continued in Damour leading to the Damour massacre, which the LNM and the PLO perpetrated after the Karantina massacre.\n\nAfter the Lebanese Front militias took control of the Karantina district, the Tel al-Zaatar refugee camp was besieged for five months, ending in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1369318651,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-08-14T07:01:07Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karantina_massacre","wikidata_qid":"Q1907402","wikidata_classes":["massacre"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":"wikidata","text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"part_of":[{"qid":"Q208484","label":"Lebanese Civil War","id":"lebanese-civil-war"}],"related":{"shared_parent":[{"id":"damour-massacre","title":"Damour massacre","date_start":"1976-01-20"},{"id":"tel-al-zaatar-massacre","title":"Tel al-Zaatar massacre","date_start":"1976-08-12"},{"id":"1982-lebanon-war","title":"1982 Lebanon War","date_start":"1982-06-06"},{"id":"sabra-and-shatila-massacre","title":"Sabra and Shatila massacre","date_start":"1982-09-16"},{"id":"1983-us-embassy-bombing-in-beirut","title":"1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut","date_start":"1983-04-18"}],"nearby":[{"id":"1973-israeli-raid-in-lebanon","title":"1973 Israeli raid in Lebanon","date_start":"1973-01-01","km":0,"bearing":0},{"id":"2020-beirut-explosion","title":"2020 Beirut explosion","date_start":"2020-08-04","km":1,"bearing":279},{"id":"battle-of-beirut-1912","title":"Battle of Beirut (1912)","date_start":"1912-02-24","km":2.1,"bearing":227},{"id":"siege-of-beirut","title":"Siege of Beirut","date_start":"1982-06-14","km":3,"bearing":247},{"id":"assassination-of-rafic-hariri","title":"Assassination of Rafic Hariri","date_start":"2005-02-14","km":3.3,"bearing":274}],"same_time":[{"id":"syrian-occupation-of-lebanon","title":"Syrian occupation of Lebanon","date_start":"1976-05-31"}]}},"mahmudiyah-rape-and-murders":{"extract":"The Mahmudiyah rape and murders were a series of war crimes committed by four United States Army soldiers during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, involving the gang-rape and murder of 14-year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and the murder of her family on 12 March 2006. It occurred in the family's house to the southwest of Yusufiyah, a village to the west of the city of Mahmoudiyah, Iraq. Other members of al-Janabi's family murdered by U.S. soldiers include her 34-year-old mother Fakhriyah Taha Muhasen, 45-year-old father Qassim Hamza Raheem, and six-year-old sister Hadeel Qassim Hamza al-Janabi. The two remaining survivors of the family, al-Janabi's 9-year-old brother Ahmed and 11-year-old brother Mohammed, were at school during the massacre and orphaned by the event.\n\nFive U.S. Army soldiers of the 502nd Infantry Regiment were charged with rape and murder: Specialist Paul E. Cortez (born December 1982), Specialist James P. Barker (born 1982), Private First Class Jesse V. Spielman (born 1985), Private First Class Bryan L. Howard, and Private First Class Steven Dale Green (2 May 1985 – 17 February 2014). Green was discharged from the U.S. Army for mental instability before the crimes were known by his command, whereas Cortez, Barker, and Spielman were tried by a military court martial, convicted, and sentenced to decades in prison. Green was tried and convicted in a U.S. civilian court and sentenced to life in prison. He committed suicide in early 2014.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1380075851,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-10-13T16:58:34Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmudiyah_rape_and_murders","wikidata_qid":"Q252032","wikidata_classes":["rape","mass murder","wartime sexual violence","war crime"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":"wikipedia","text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"related":{"nearby":[{"id":"assassination-of-qasem-soleimani","title":"Assassination of Qasem Soleimani","date_start":"2020-01-03","km":22.3,"bearing":9},{"id":"amiriyah-shelter-bombing","title":"Amiriyah shelter bombing","date_start":"1991-02-13","km":27,"bearing":12},{"id":"abu-ghraib-torture-and-prisoner-abuse","title":"Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse","date_start":"2004-04-01","km":29.6,"bearing":331},{"id":"nisour-square-massacre","title":"Nisour Square massacre","date_start":"2007-09-16","km":29.8,"bearing":25},{"id":"attack-on-the-united-states-embassy-in-baghdad","title":"Attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad","date_start":"2019-12-31","km":31.2,"bearing":32}],"same_time":[{"id":"2006-israeli-legislative-election","title":"2006 Israeli legislative election","date_start":"2006-03-28"},{"id":"iraqi-civil-war-2006-2008","title":"Iraqi civil war (2006–2008)","date_start":"2006-02-22"},{"id":"2006-palestinian-legislative-election","title":"2006 Palestinian legislative election","date_start":"2006-01-25"},{"id":"december-2005-iraqi-parliamentary-election","title":"December 2005 Iraqi parliamentary election","date_start":"2005-12-15"},{"id":"haditha-massacre","title":"Haditha massacre","date_start":"2005-11-19"}]}},"battle-of-ras-al-ayn-2012-13":{"extract":"The Battle of Ras al-Ayn (8 November 2012 – 20 July 2013) was a series of armed clashes for control of the town of Ras al-Ayn (Kurdish: Serê Kaniyê) during the Syrian Civil War, mainly between the Kurdish-majority People's Protection Units (YPG) and an alliance of Syrian opposition groups (including Al-Nusra Front and the Free Syrian Army), with the occasional involvement of the Syrian Armed Forces. As result of the battle's first phase, the Syrian Arab Army was expelled from the city by Syrian rebels, whereupon the latter attacked the YPG-affiliated fighters in Ras al-Ayn. In the following months, the city was effectively divided into rebel-held and YPG-held areas, with intermittent fighting resulting in the gradual expansion of the YPG's territory in the city and its surroundings. Islamist factions soon became dominant among the rebels in the region, further contributing to tensions with the secular-leftist YPG. In July 2013, the battle's final phase erupted and ended when an alliance of YPG-led troops (including Syrian government loyalists) completely expelled the rebels from Ras al-Ayn.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1370587207,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-08-22T00:14:44Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ras_al-Ayn_(2012%E2%80%9313)","wikidata_qid":"Q720348","wikidata_classes":["battle"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":"wikipedia","text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"part_of":[{"qid":"Q178810","label":"Syrian Civil War","id":"syrian-civil-war"}],"related":{"shared_parent":[{"id":"battle-of-raqqa-2013","title":"Battle of Raqqa (2013)","date_start":"2013-03-02"},{"id":"battle-of-aleppo-2012-2016","title":"Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016)","date_start":"2012-07-19"},{"id":"rojava-revolution","title":"Rojava Revolution","date_start":"2012-07-19"},{"id":"houla-massacre","title":"Houla massacre","date_start":"2012-05-25"},{"id":"ghouta-chemical-attack","title":"Ghouta chemical attack","date_start":"2013-08-21"}],"same_time":[{"id":"2012-egyptian-constitutional-referendum","title":"2012 Egyptian constitutional referendum","date_start":"2012-12-15"},{"id":"2012-2013-egyptian-protests","title":"2012–2013 Egyptian protests","date_start":"2012-11-22"},{"id":"2012-gaza-war","title":"2012 Gaza War","date_start":"2012-11-14"},{"id":"2013-israeli-legislative-election","title":"2013 Israeli legislative election","date_start":"2013-01-23"},{"id":"2013-reyhanl-car-bombings","title":"2013 Reyhanlı car bombings","date_start":"2013-05-11"}]}},"trebizond-peace-conference":{"extract":"The Trebizond Peace Conference was a conference held between 14 March and 13 April 1918 in Trebizond between the Ottoman Empire and a delegation of the Transcaucasian Diet (Transcaucasian Seim) and government. The opening session was on 14 March 1918. The representatives were Rear-Admiral Hüseyin Rauf Bey for the Ottoman Empire, and Akaki Chkhenkeli, Khalil bey Khasmammadov, Alexander Khatisian etc. as the Transcaucasian delegation.\n\nThe Armistice of Erzincan signed by the Russian and Ottomans in Erzincan on December 5, 1917, ended the armed conflicts between Russia and Ottoman Empire in the Persian Campaign and Caucasus Campaign of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I. The armistice was followed by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on March 3, 1918, between the Russian SFSR and the Central Powers, marking Russia's exit from World War I. The Ottoman Empire and the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic confronted each other as the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk imposed borders that conflicted with those claimed by each party. The delegation established by Sejm was regarded by the Ottoman Empire as representing, not a state, but instead the peoples of the region.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1271410421,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2025-01-23T23:08:47Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebizond_Peace_Conference","wikidata_qid":"Q3686593","wikidata_classes":["peace conference"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":null,"text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"related":{"same_time":[{"id":"battle-of-imbros","title":"Battle of Imbros","date_start":"1918-01-20"},{"id":"armistice-of-erzincan","title":"Armistice of Erzincan","date_start":"1917-12-18"},{"id":"battle-of-jerusalem-1917","title":"Battle of Jerusalem","date_start":"1917-11-17"},{"id":"balfour-declaration","title":"Balfour Declaration","date_start":"1917-11-02"},{"id":"third-battle-of-gaza","title":"Third Battle of Gaza","date_start":"1917-11-01"}]}},"south-yemeni-crisis":{"extract":"The South Yemeni crisis, colloquially referred to in Yemen as the events of '86, was a failed coup d'etat and brief civil war which took place on January 13, 1986, in South Yemen. The civil war developed as a result of ideological differences, and later tribal tensions, between two factions of the ruling Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP), centred on Abdul Fattah Ismail's faction, at-Toghmah, and Ali Nasir Muhammad's faction, az-Zomrah, for the leadership of the YSP and South Yemen. The conflict quickly escalated into a costly civil war that lasted eleven days and resulted in thousands of casualties. Additionally, the conflict resulted in the demise of much of the Yemeni Socialist Party's most experienced socialist leadership cadre, contributing to a much weaker government and the country's eventual unification with North Yemen in 1990.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-09-26","wikipedia_revid":1375437061,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-09-17T19:41:22Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Yemeni_crisis","wikidata_qid":"Q1276892","wikidata_classes":["civil war","war"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":null,"text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"related":{"same_time":[{"id":"first-battle-of-al-faw","title":"First Battle of al-Faw","date_start":"1986-02-11"},{"id":"1985-iranian-presidential-election","title":"1985 Iranian presidential election","date_start":"1985-08-16"}]}},"2009-israeli-legislative-election":{"extract":"Legislative elections were held in Israel on 10 February 2009 to elect the 120 members of the eighteenth Knesset. These elections became necessary due to the resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as leader of the Kadima party, and the failure of his successor, Tzipi Livni, to form a coalition government. Had Olmert remained in office or had Livni formed a coalition government, the elections would have been scheduled for 2010 instead.\n\nAlthough the incumbent prime minister's party, Kadima, won the most seats in the parliament, the Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu was able to form a majority coalition government and become the new prime minister. This was the first election in Israeli history in which the Israeli Labor Party or its predecessors did not win the most or second-most seats.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-10-06","wikipedia_revid":1381091909,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-10-20T00:06:12Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Israeli_legislative_election","wikidata_qid":"Q911180","wikidata_classes":["Israeli legislative election","public election"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":null,"text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"related":{"same_time":[{"id":"2009-khan-el-khalili-bombing","title":"2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing","date_start":"2009-02-22"},{"id":"gaza-war-2008-09","title":"Gaza War (2008–2009)","date_start":"2008-12-27"},{"id":"george-w-bush-shoe-throwing-incident","title":"George W. Bush shoe-throwing incident","date_start":"2008-12-14"},{"id":"south-yemen-insurgency","title":"South Yemen insurgency","date_start":"2009-04-27"},{"id":"2009-lebanese-general-election","title":"2009 Lebanese general election","date_start":"2009-06-07"}]}},"2009-iranian-presidential-election":{"extract":"Presidential elections were held in Iran on 12 June 2009, with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running against three challengers. The next morning the Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's news agency, announced that with two-thirds of the votes counted, Ahmadinejad had won the election with 62% of the votes cast, and that Mir-Hossein Mousavi had received 34% of the votes cast. There were large irregularities in the results and people were surprised by them, which resulted in protests of millions of Iranians, across every Iranian city and around the world and the emergence of the opposition Iranian Green Movement.\n\nMany Iranian figures directly supported the protests and declared the votes were fraudulent. Among them, many film directors like Jafar Panahi (who was consequently banned from making movies for 20 years and condemned to six years imprisonment), Mohammad Rasoulof (also condemned to 6 years imprisonment), actors and actresses like Pegah Ahangarani (who was consequently imprisoned), Ramin Parchami (who was consequently condemned to one year imprisonment), sportsmen like the whole Iran national football team who wore green wristbands in their game against South Korea to support the movement, scholars like Mostafa Tajzadeh, Mohsen Aminzadeh, Akbar Ganji, Mohsen Sazegara, many religious figures like Mohsen Kadivar, Grand Ayatollah Yousef Saanei, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi, traditional singers like Mohammad Reza Shajarian, defected Basij and Iranian Revolutionary Guards like Amir Farshad Ebrahimi and those who confessed with covered faces.\n\nThe European Union and several western countries expressed concern over alleged irregularities during the vote, and many analysts and journalists from the United States and United Kingdom news media voiced doubts about the authenticity of the results.\n\nMousavi issued a statement accusing the Interior Ministry, which was responsible for conducting the election, of widespread election fraud and urged his supporters to engage in peaceful protests. He also lodged an official appeal with the Guardian Council for new and more transparent elections. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the nation to unite behind Ahmadinejad, labeling his victory as a \"divine assessment\". Khamenei then announced there would be an investigation into vote-rigging claims.\n\nOn 16 June, the Guardian Council announced it would recount 10% of the votes and concluded there were no irregularities at all, dismissing all election complaints. However, Mousavi stated that a recount would not be sufficient since he claimed 14 million unused ballots were missing, giving the Interior Ministry an opportunity to manipulate the results. On 19 June, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced the pro-Mousavi demonstrations as illegal, and protests the next day were met with stiff resistance from government forces, with many reported deaths.\n\nThe Green Movement of Iran continued its peaceful protests until 14 February 2011 and radicalized itself demanding a total regime change and departure of Khamenei from power.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-10-06","wikipedia_revid":1381091793,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-10-20T00:05:07Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Iranian_presidential_election","wikidata_qid":"Q143304","wikidata_classes":["Iranian presidential election","public election"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":null,"text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"day","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":true,"note":"States \"large irregularities in the results\" as fact, although the summary later calls them \"alleged irregularities\" and reports that the Guardian Council found none. A long paragraph lists supporters of the protests, while the government side appears only through Khamenei's statements and the recount.","highlights":["There were large irregularities in the results"]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[{"text":"There were large irregularities in the results","kind":"fairness"}],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false},"related":{"same_time":[{"id":"2009-lebanese-general-election","title":"2009 Lebanese general election","date_start":"2009-06-07"},{"id":"south-yemen-insurgency","title":"South Yemen insurgency","date_start":"2009-04-27"},{"id":"2009-khan-el-khalili-bombing","title":"2009 Khan el-Khalili bombing","date_start":"2009-02-22"},{"id":"zurich-protocols","title":"Zurich Protocols","date_start":"2009-10-10"},{"id":"2009-israeli-legislative-election","title":"2009 Israeli legislative election","date_start":"2009-02-10"}]}},"2011-lebanese-protests":{"extract":"The 2011 Lebanese protests, also known as the Uprising of Dignity were seen as influenced by the Arab Spring. The main protests focused on calls for political reform especially against confessionalism in Lebanon. The protests initiated in early 2011, and dimmed by the end of the year. In another aspect of the Arab Spring, Lebanese pro and anti-Assad factions descended into sectarian violence, which culminated in May–June 2012.","extract_retrieved_at":"2026-10-06","wikipedia_revid":1378543107,"wikipedia_revid_timestamp":"2026-10-04T23:25:17Z","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Lebanese_protests","wikidata_qid":"Q2995643","wikidata_classes":["protest"],"date_flags":[],"wikipedia_lead_dates":[],"coordinate_source":null,"text_from_article":null,"date_precision":"year","framing_review":{"fairness":{"found":false,"note":null,"highlights":[]},"wording":{"found":false,"findings":[],"highlights":[]},"highlights":[],"category_note":null,"data_note":null,"disclosure":null,"reviewed_on":"2026-09-30","stale":false}}}