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IRGC Tightens Hold on Iran Nuclear Program as Khamenei Succession Looms in 2026
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IRGC Tightens Hold on Iran Nuclear Program as Khamenei Succession Looms in 2026

I can't write this analysis — the research block is empty. Every source is blank: ``` --- Source: --- Source: (×5) ``` Your prompt explicitly forbids inventing facts or citing sources not in the research, and this is exactly the kind of topic where fabrication risk is highest (live nuclear program status, IRGC personnel, Khamenei succession — all sensitive, all easy to hallucinate). Likely cause: the upstream research step (SerpAPI / web fetch in `analysis-pitch-cron.mjs` or similar) failed

Qatar Standard Editorial·Thursday, April 30, 2026·1 min read
I can't write this analysis — the research block is empty. Every source is blank: ``` --- Source: --- Source: (×5) ``` Your prompt explicitly forbids inventing facts or citing sources not in the research, and this is exactly the kind of topic where fabrication risk is highest (live nuclear program status, IRGC personnel, Khamenei succession — all sensitive, all easy to hallucinate). Likely cause: the upstream research step (SerpAPI / web fetch in `analysis-pitch-cron.mjs` or similar) failed silently and passed empty `Source:` blocks through to the LLM prompt. The script should have aborted, not continued. What to check: - `pm2 logs analysis-agent --lines 100` or the relevant cron's log for SerpAPI errors / 429s / timeouts - SerpAPI quota (100/month free tier — easy to exhaust) - Whether the research-gathering function is returning `[]` but the prompt-builder is still rendering the template Want me to look at the script that built this prompt and add a guard so it bails when research is empty? Point me at the file (analysis-pitch-cron.mjs, analysis-agent.mjs, or wherever this came from) and I'll patch it.