Britain banned Iran's Revolutionary Guard on Monday, along with a proxy group that publicly claimed seven attacks on Jewish sites in the UK this year. One sentence of event. Now let's inspect the protective equipment each newsroom put on before touching it. * Al Jazeera's headline: "UK to list Iran's IRGC as 'terror' threat." Look at those quotation marks around terror. Typographical tongs. Not a terror threat — a 'terror' threat. Terror, so to speak. Terror, if you insist. The subheadline keeps the gloves on: London is "accusing" the Iranian military of "engineering" the attacks. * In fairness, there's a respectable case for the tongs: the ban isn't law until Parliament votes later this week, and scare-quoting 'terror' is Al Jazeera house style applied to everyone's designations, not just this one. Sure. But house style is a choice somebody made, and it's not the only choice on the page. Look at where the article lives: filed under the tag "US-Israel war on Iran." Before you've read a word, Britain's arson problem has been shelved as a subplot of somebody else's war. * Now, the facts nobody is disputing — per Al Jazeera's own copy: the group "claimed seven attacks on Jewish sites in the UK earlier this year," including "the torching of four ambulances belonging to a community charity in March." The arsonists signed their work. Some claims arrive pre-confirmed by the people who did them, which does make the scare quotes feel like checking ID on a confession. * Before anyone feels smug: Fox wore gloves too, just different ones. Its headline — "UK pins string of antisemitic attacks on Iran-linked group, bans IRGC" — has Britain 'pinning' the attacks on someone, like a tail on a donkey at a birthday party. France 24 went full wire-service: "UK unveils plan to ban Iran Revolutionary Guards: ministry." Says the ministry. Everyone hedged; they just hedged different words. Al Jazeera hedged 'terror.' Fox hedged the blame. France 24 hedged the entire sentence. * The unhedged bits are all British: Starmer promising the powers will "make it easier to prosecute and lock up anyone carrying out their dirty work here in Britain," the home secretary saying "Iran and Russia are using proxies and thugs to do their dirty work on our shores." Dirty work, twice — Downing Street clearly focus-grouped its metaphor. And Iran's response, parked at the bottom of Al Jazeera's piece: it "has previously denied using proxies." Previously. The denial was old enough it had to be reheated. * Punctuation is editorial. The quotes around 'terror' tell you what a Qatari-owned newsroom prefers to hold at arm's length. The section tag tells you which war the story got drafted into. The ambulances, meanwhile, burned in plain type.