Iran War Day 135: U.S. Bombs Iran ⁠23%

By Harrison Berger⁠73%

7/12/2026, 7:21:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Confirmation Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Self-Serving Bias as the most egregious example at 50.8% saturation with 190 hits. Analysis detected 1,223 faulty-reasoning hits from 374 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 36.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠23% (16,922 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 77.30% of the article peer group.

The U.S. launched a new round of strikes on Iran Saturday after Iran was reported to have attacked two ships Saturday which attempted to travel through the Omani channel of the Strait of Hormuz without coordinating with the Iranian government, and the IRGC retaliated with strikes on U.S. bases in the region. 
U.S. 
Central Command (CENTCOM) said Iran on Saturday “blatantly attack[ed]” the Cyprus-flagged container ship M/V GFS Galaxy . 
The IRGC’s naval forces announced the same day that the Strait of Hormuz would be “closed until further notice and until the end of US interference in the region, and no vessel would be permitted to transit.” 
The IRGC said that several ships, “encouraged by foreign actors,” attempted to transit via an “unauthorised route.” 
CENTCOM responded with airstrikes they say targeted “Iranian missile and drone sites, naval capabilities, ammunition storage facilities, communication networks and coastal surveillance locations.” 
Saturday night’s airstrikes became the third wave of U.S. attacks on Iran this week. 
Iran released a list of targets they retaliated against, including the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan, and various sites in Oman, Kuwait, and Bahrain, saying in a statement that “any continuation of aggression” by the U.S. “will be met with even more severe responses.” 
Iran’s Saturday attacks on ships attempting to transit through the Strait of Hormuz without Iranian government coordination casts doubt over the veracity of Friday’s CBS News report that the Iranian government had “apologized” for previous attacks on ships in the waterway and would not attack ships again in the future. 
A senior Iranian official told Drop Site News Sunday that those leaks were “a very deliberate and coordinated media campaign designed to pressure” Iran into making concessions over its position that “Iran will not allow anyone to disrupt” what it called its “oversight management of the Strait of Hormuz.” 
The official said that the U.S. is also applying pressure on Oman and that the idea of opening an alternative lane through the Strait of Hormuz outside of Iranian management “actually came from the American side.” 
The post Iran War Day 135: U.S. 
Bombs Iran, Iran Retalliates Against Bases appeared first on The American Conservative . 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 43.0%Harrison Berger: 6.8%The American Conservative: 8.1%Confirmation Bias43.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.4%The American Conservative: 0.6%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 5.5%The American Conservative: 3.8%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 1.1%The American Conservative: 1.4%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 13.4%Harrison Berger: 0.4%The American Conservative: 1.9%Hindsight Bias13.4%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 4.2%The American Conservative: 3.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 4.0%Harrison Berger: 12.5%The American Conservative: 8.1%Framing Effect4.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.5%The American Conservative: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.4%The American Conservative: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.1%The American Conservative: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 1.4%The American Conservative: 1.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 2.3%The American Conservative: 2.7%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 35.3%Harrison Berger: 12.2%The American Conservative: 10.6%Negativity Bias35.3%This article: 50.8%Harrison Berger: 2.2%The American Conservative: 1.1%Self-Serving Bias50.8%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 1.5%The American Conservative: 2.3%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 13.1%Harrison Berger: 0.3%The American Conservative: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias13.1%This article: 9.9%Harrison Berger: 1.6%The American Conservative: 2.4%In-Group Bias9.9%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 1.8%The American Conservative: 2.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 4.5%Harrison Berger: 0.4%The American Conservative: 1.5%Halo Effect4.5%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.1%The American Conservative: 0.4%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 3.7%Harrison Berger: 2.4%The American Conservative: 1.4%Recency Bias3.7%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.5%The American Conservative: 0.6%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.2%The American Conservative: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 2.0%The American Conservative: 2.8%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.7%The American Conservative: 2.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 4.5%Harrison Berger: 7.8%The American Conservative: 4.3%Appeal to Authority4.5%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 3.0%The American Conservative: 3.3%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 2.8%The American Conservative: 2.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.2%The American Conservative: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 3.7%Harrison Berger: 7.1%The American Conservative: 10.3%Hasty Generalization3.7%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.1%The American Conservative: 0.4%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.8%The American Conservative: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 7.1%The American Conservative: 5.8%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 26.7%Harrison Berger: 2.1%The American Conservative: 1.6%Begging the Question26.7%This article: 27.3%Harrison Berger: 3.5%The American Conservative: 4.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)27.3%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.3%The American Conservative: 0.3%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.8%The American Conservative: 0.9%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.1%The American Conservative: 0.5%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 1.0%The American Conservative: 2.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.2%The American Conservative: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 47.9%Harrison Berger: 2.5%The American Conservative: 2.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation)47.9%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.0%The American Conservative: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.2%The American Conservative: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.3%The American Conservative: 0.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 4.5%Harrison Berger: 6.5%The American Conservative: 3.4%Unattributed Quote4.5%This article: 0.5%Harrison Berger: 4.3%The American Conservative: 2.1%Quote-first Misdirection0.5%This article: 13.9%Harrison Berger: 10.8%The American Conservative: 17.3%Biased Writer Voice13.9%This article: 13.1%Harrison Berger: 1.3%The American Conservative: 2.9%Indoctrination13.1%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 1.2%The American Conservative: 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 3.5%Harrison Berger: 1.0%The American Conservative: 3.9%Politically Right Leaning Bias3.5%This article: 3.5%Harrison Berger: 0.4%The American Conservative: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…3.5%

374 words analyzed.

Speakers

5speakers42%attributed speech216writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 52 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageCentral Command (CENTCOM) • 17 words • 100.0% coverageIRGC’s naval forces • 37 words • 0.0% coverageIRGC • 17 words • 0.0% coverageCentral Command (CENTCOM) • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageIran • 51 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 50 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 49 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 36 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageThe American Conservative • 13 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Iran

100%flagged-word coverage
51 attributed words32% of attributed speech94% writer coverage
0%12.5%25.0%Biased Writer Voice-24.1 ptsWriter: 24.1%Iran: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-22.7 ptsWriter: 22.7%Iran: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-0.9 ptsWriter: 0.9%Iran: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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