Iran offers to mediate Saudi-Houthi war despite arms accusations

Fact-check index: 62/100 — The four core claims are each traceable to a cited source, but several contain editorializing or detail not confirmed by the source snippets, and the piece internally contradicts itself on the Riyadh casualty toll (12 vs. 13).

• Iran has offered to mediate the Saudi-Houthi conflict — Matches Middle East Eye headline: 'Iran offers to mediate as Saudi-Houthi conflict escalates.'
• Iran is 'accused of arming the Houthis' — Not present in the Middle East Eye headline/snippet provided; this framing isn't established by the source material given.
• A top former Trump official says Washington must 'crush Iran' — Matches Sky News headline: 'We must crush Iran, says top ex-Trump official.'
• Saudi Arabia's foreign minister vows a 'serious response' to Houthi strikes on Riyadh's airport and another facility that killed 13 — BBC confirms 'serious response,' the airport strike, a second facility, and 13 deaths, but the snippet refers simply to 'minister' not specifically 'foreign minister.'
• Riyadh airport toll earlier 'confirmed at 12' (per linked prior article) — Creates an unresolved internal contradiction with the body text's figure of 13 deaths; no source here clarifies whether this is a revised count.
• IMF warns the wider Middle East energy shock, stacked on Russia's war, is already slowing European growth — Kyiv Post headline says growth 'will slow' (forward-looking warning), while the article asserts it is 'already slowing' — a tense/certainty overstatement not supported by the cited headline.
• Editorial framing ('why it matters', escalation 'no longer merely regional', Washington hawks vs. diplomacy split) — Analytical commentary added by the article, not attributed to or verifiable against any cited source.