US attacks Iran for 10th consecutive night ⁠87%

By Al Jazeera Staff⁠54%

7/21/2026, 12:06:33 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Recency Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 56.7% saturation with 149 hits. Analysis detected 1,052 faulty-reasoning hits from 263 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 80% and a BS Rank of ⁠87% (2,712 of 20,369 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 86.70% of the article peer group.

The United States is carrying out its 10th consecutive night of attacks against Iran, with Iranian media reporting explosions in Sirik, Bandar Abbas, Qeshm Island, and Isfahan. 
US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the operation on Monday evening, claiming that the strikes are “designed to further degrade Iranian military capabilities used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz”. 
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a statement claiming to have retaliated by launching ground-to-ground missiles at “US HIMARS missile systems” stationed at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. 
Two Greek-owned oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz were struck earlier on Monday, while the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which monitors attacks on ships, reports that another tanker has been hit off the coast of Oman’s port city of Limah. 
Shortly before the night’s bombing began, US President Donald Trump took to social media to warn that Iranian attacks on US military personnel would be paid back “many times over”. 
On Friday, two US soldiers were killed, and a third was reported missing when an Iranian missile struck a military site in Jordan, while another US service member was killed in northern Iraq. 
Trump also reiterated earlier warnings that continued Iranian attacks on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz would be met with a stronger response. 
Meanwhile, Yemen’s pro-Iranian Houthis have declared a blockade on Saudi Arabia, escalating tensions and sparking fears that the Yemeni conflict, which had been relatively quiet for four years, may be about to reignite and threaten shipping in the Red Sea. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 22.8%Al Jazeera Staff: 2.6%Al Jazeera: 2.7%Confirmation Bias22.8%This article: 10.3%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.6%Al Jazeera: 0.7%Anchoring Bias10.3%This article: 16.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 2.8%Al Jazeera: 2.8%Availability Heuristic16.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.7%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.5%Al Jazeera: 0.4%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 2.7%Al Jazeera: 2.1%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 20.5%Al Jazeera Staff: 10.0%Al Jazeera: 8.4%Framing Effect20.5%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.3%Al Jazeera: 0.5%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.5%Al Jazeera: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.1%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 2.9%Al Jazeera: 2.5%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 15.2%Al Jazeera Staff: 2.4%Al Jazeera: 2.7%Pessimism Bias15.2%This article: 52.1%Al Jazeera Staff: 10.4%Al Jazeera: 10.3%Negativity Bias52.1%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 2.5%Al Jazeera: 1.8%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 12.2%Al Jazeera Staff: 1.2%Al Jazeera: 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error12.2%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 1.5%Al Jazeera: 1.4%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 1.2%Al Jazeera: 0.9%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.8%Al Jazeera: 1.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 24.3%Al Jazeera Staff: 2.0%Al Jazeera: 1.7%Recency Bias24.3%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 1.2%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.1%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 49.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 4.5%Al Jazeera: 4.0%Appeal to Authority49.0%This article: 9.1%Al Jazeera Staff: 1.6%Al Jazeera: 1.8%False Dilemma9.1%This article: 15.2%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.8%Al Jazeera: 1.0%Slippery Slope15.2%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 3.3%Al Jazeera: 3.6%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.4%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 11.4%Al Jazeera Staff: 6.5%Al Jazeera: 5.1%Appeal to Emotion11.4%This article: 12.2%Al Jazeera Staff: 1.1%Al Jazeera: 0.9%Begging the Question12.2%This article: 15.2%Al Jazeera Staff: 3.0%Al Jazeera: 3.3%Post Hoc (False Cause)15.2%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.1%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.5%Al Jazeera: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.1%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 1.6%Al Jazeera: 1.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.1%Al Jazeera: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 2.3%Al Jazeera: 2.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.1%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.1%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 22.8%Al Jazeera Staff: 3.3%Al Jazeera: 2.7%Unattributed Quote22.8%This article: 23.6%Al Jazeera Staff: 2.0%Al Jazeera: 1.6%Quote-first Misdirection23.6%This article: 56.7%Al Jazeera Staff: 5.0%Al Jazeera: 4.2%Biased Writer Voice56.7%This article: 11.4%Al Jazeera Staff: 1.0%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Indoctrination11.4%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 1.4%Al Jazeera: 1.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Al Jazeera Staff: 0.3%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

263 words analyzed.

Speakers

4speakers59%attributed speech107writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 100.0% coverageUS Central Command (CENTCOM) • 32 words • 100.0% coverageIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) • 28 words • 100.0% coverageUnited Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations • 42 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 30 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 33 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 24 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 40 words • 100.0% coverage
100%flagged-word coverage
32 attributed words21% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%US Central Command (CENTCOM): 100.0%100.0%Quote-first Misdirection+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%US Central Command (CENTCOM): 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-100.0 ptsWriter: 100.0%US Central Command (CENTCOM): 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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