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Negotiators took 20 months to reach a deal with Iran on its nuclear programme, but for a moment yesterday Fox News appears to have thought the historic deal had been reached with Iraq.
That's Iraq, the country which Iran fought a bloody eight-year war with in the 1980s. A country that has been in the news a little itself in recent years.
The apparent mistake seems to have been noticed by Twitter user @DudeInDistress, who posted what appears to be a screenshot from Fox's coverage of the moment the deal went through using the hashtag #IranDeal.
The #IranDeal hashtag trended all of yesterday on the social media site as users commented on the deal and posted images of celebrations marking a diplomatic move that looks set to return Iran to the international fold.
Fox has had geographical troubles before, once displaying a map of the Middle East that presented Egypt as positioned between Syria and Iran, in place of Iraq.
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The demands of 24-hour TV news can present a challenge for broadcasters and Fox is not the only channel to have encountered this kind of problem.
In 2013 CNN displayed a map that showed Hong Kong located somewhere in the east of Brazil.
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