Iran – Saudi Arabia
Coverage mentioning both Iran and Saudi Arabia makes up 0.478% of all articles GDELT monitors as of October 4, 2026. Co-coverage is down 24.3% week-over-week. The tone of that shared coverage is -3.34 — negative.
Data updated: · refreshed every 3 hours from GDELT
Co-coverage share
0.478%
mentions both countries
Week over week
-24.3%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-3.34
negative
Pair
IR–SA
refreshed daily
Co-coverage volume, last 90 days
Co-coverage tone, last 90 days
Who acted on whom (CAMEO-coded, last 7 days)
Iran → Saudi Arabia
97
events · avg intensity -1.7 (Goldstein −10..+10)
Saudi Arabia → Iran
122
events · avg intensity 1.5 (Goldstein −10..+10)
Directed events from GDELT's CAMEO coding: who initiated actions toward whom. Negative Goldstein scores are conflictual acts, positive are cooperative.
The two countries
Co-coverage counts articles mentioning both country names as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).