Iran War Day 138: Trump Threatens to Destroy Iranian Bridges, Power Plants ⁠27%

By Harrison Berger⁠73%

7/15/2026, 7:08:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Availability Heuristic, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 30.4% saturation with 109 hits. Analysis detected 886 faulty-reasoning hits from 359 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 38.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠27% (16,128 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 73.70% of the article peer group.

The U.S. bombed Iran on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, and Iran retaliated against U.S. bases, as the Iran War entered its 138th day on Wednesday. 
U.S. 
Central Command announced Wednesday morning that it had completed airstrikes against what it claimed were “coastal defense systems and cruise missile storage and launch sites,” following a 7-hour bombing run they said targeted “Iranian missile and drone sites, naval capabilities, and coastal defense systems.” 
Iranian media reported that U.S. strikes hit a wheat storage facility, while President Donald Trump on Tuesday told Fox News that all of Iran’s power plants and bridges would be targeted next week unless Tehran returns to the negotiating table. 
Iran’s IRGC responded to American attacks with strikes they claimed hit a U.S. military logistics and support center in Kuwait’s Mina Abdullah port, the U.S. 
Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, and Al Al-Azraq base in Jordan , among other targets. 
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that two of the three latest vessels struck by Iran were part of a U.S.-escorted “shuttle run” fleet that had been keeping about 3.5 million barrels a day flowing out of the strait. 
Kpler shipping tracker reported that no vessels were recorded transiting through the U.S.-coordinated Omani channel on Tuesday, with 21 total recorded transits through the Iranian channel, up slightly from previous days. 
Iran currently retains control over the northern part of the waterway and points to article five of the memorandum of understanding signed by Trump and Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, which says that “the Islamic Republic of Iran will make arrangements” for the Strait of Hormuz and that the “future administration” of the waterway would be determined by Iran and Oman. 
The Islamic Republic has denounced what they describe as American pressure to open up a channel near the Omani coastline that cuts Iran out of the waterway’s management. 
The price of oil continued to rise, with Brent Crude above $84.50 per barrel on Wednesday morning. 
The post Iran War Day 138: Trump Threatens to Destroy Iranian Bridges, Power Plants appeared first on The American Conservative . 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 27.9%Harrison Berger: 6.8%The American Conservative: 8.1%Confirmation Bias27.9%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.4%The American Conservative: 0.6%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 23.1%Harrison Berger: 5.5%The American Conservative: 3.8%Availability Heuristic23.1%This article: 10.9%Harrison Berger: 1.1%The American Conservative: 1.4%Representativeness Heuristic10.9%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.4%The American Conservative: 1.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 4.2%The American Conservative: 3.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 3.3%Harrison Berger: 12.5%The American Conservative: 8.1%Framing Effect3.3%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: 14.5%Harrison Berger: 12.2%The American Conservative: 10.6%Negativity Bias14.5%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 2.2%The American Conservative: 1.1%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 7.0%Harrison Berger: 1.5%The American Conservative: 2.3%Fundamental Attribution Error7.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 0.3%The American Conservative: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 7.8%Harrison Berger: 1.6%The American Conservative: 2.4%In-Group Bias7.8%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 1.8%The American Conservative: 2.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 4.2%Harrison Berger: 0.4%The American Conservative: 1.5%Halo Effect4.2%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: 8.6%Harrison Berger: 2.4%The American Conservative: 1.4%Recency Bias8.6%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: 16.7%Harrison Berger: 7.8%The American Conservative: 4.3%Appeal to Authority16.7%This article: 11.1%Harrison Berger: 3.0%The American Conservative: 3.3%False Dilemma11.1%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 2.8%The American Conservative: 2.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 16.7%Harrison Berger: 0.2%The American Conservative: 0.2%Circular Reasoning16.7%This article: 10.9%Harrison Berger: 7.1%The American Conservative: 10.3%Hasty Generalization10.9%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: 11.1%Harrison Berger: 7.1%The American Conservative: 5.8%Appeal to Emotion11.1%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 2.1%The American Conservative: 1.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 3.5%The American Conservative: 4.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%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: 20.1%Harrison Berger: 2.5%The American Conservative: 2.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation)20.1%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: 30.4%Harrison Berger: 6.5%The American Conservative: 3.4%Unattributed Quote30.4%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 4.3%The American Conservative: 2.1%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 16.7%Harrison Berger: 10.8%The American Conservative: 17.3%Biased Writer Voice16.7%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 1.3%The American Conservative: 2.9%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 1.2%The American Conservative: 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Harrison Berger: 1.0%The American Conservative: 3.9%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 5.8%Harrison Berger: 0.4%The American Conservative: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…5.8%

359 words analyzed.

Speakers

6speakers67%attributed speech117writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 1 words • 0.0% coverageUnited States Central Command • 44 words • 100.0% coverageIranian media • 40 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWall Street Journal • 39 words • 0.0% coverageKpler • 31 words • 0.0% coverageIran • 60 words • 100.0% coverageIslamic Republic of Iran • 28 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Iranian media

100%flagged-word coverage
40 attributed words17% of attributed speech62% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+78.6 ptsWriter: 21.4%Iranian media: 100.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -17.9 ptsWriter: 17.9%Iranian media: 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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