Iran war live: Pakistan, Turkiye, Egypt, Saudi seek to de-escalate ⁠0%

By Caolán Magee⁠40% Virginia Pietromarchi⁠0%

3/28/2026, 5:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Availability Heuristic, and Biased Writer Voice, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 85.1% saturation with 131 hits. Analysis detected 592 faulty-reasoning hits from 154 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 0% and a BS Rank of ⁠0% (0 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 100.00% of the article peer group.

Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says the United States was plotting a ground attack despite publicly engaging in diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the war. 
Foreign ministers from Pakistan, Turkiye, Egypt and Saudi Arabia meet in Islamabad, looking to de-escalate the US-Israel war on Iran. 
Iran threatens retaliatory attacks on Israeli and US universities in the Middle East as powerful explosions hit Tehran and deaths are reported in Shaft and Bandar Khamir. 
Yemen’s Houthi have launched a second missile and drone assault on Israel, saying they will continue until Israel “ceases its attacks and aggression”. 
Protesters rally against the war on Iran in Tel Aviv and cities across the US, as people in Lebanon take to the streets of Beirut over Israel’s killing of three journalists in a targeted strike. 
Visit our live tracker for the latest casualty figures from across the region. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 16.9%Caolán Magee: 3.4%Al Jazeera: 2.7%Confirmation Bias16.9%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 1.0%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 40.3%Caolán Magee: 2.9%Al Jazeera: 2.8%Availability Heuristic40.3%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 1.6%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.4%Al Jazeera: 0.4%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 1.6%Al Jazeera: 2.1%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 42.2%Caolán Magee: 8.0%Al Jazeera: 8.5%Framing Effect42.2%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.6%Al Jazeera: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.9%Al Jazeera: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 2.0%Al Jazeera: 2.5%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 3.1%Al Jazeera: 2.7%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 85.1%Caolán Magee: 11.4%Al Jazeera: 10.3%Negativity Bias85.1%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 2.6%Al Jazeera: 1.8%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 1.2%Al Jazeera: 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 16.9%Caolán Magee: 0.4%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias16.9%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.8%Al Jazeera: 1.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 14.9%Caolán Magee: 0.5%Al Jazeera: 0.9%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias14.9%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.5%Al Jazeera: 1.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 1.2%Al Jazeera: 1.8%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.6%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.1%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 3.1%Al Jazeera: 4.0%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 14.9%Caolán Magee: 1.1%Al Jazeera: 1.9%False Dilemma14.9%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 1.4%Al Jazeera: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.1%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 3.1%Al Jazeera: 3.6%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 13.0%Caolán Magee: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Red Herring13.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.1%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 22.7%Caolán Magee: 2.6%Al Jazeera: 5.1%Appeal to Emotion22.7%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.7%Al Jazeera: 0.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 17.5%Caolán Magee: 3.1%Al Jazeera: 3.3%Post Hoc (False Cause)17.5%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.9%Al Jazeera: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.4%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.8%Al Jazeera: 1.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 16.9%Caolán Magee: 3.1%Al Jazeera: 2.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)16.9%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.3%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.1%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 31.8%Caolán Magee: 3.6%Al Jazeera: 2.8%Unattributed Quote31.8%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.6%Al Jazeera: 1.6%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 34.4%Caolán Magee: 2.8%Al Jazeera: 4.2%Biased Writer Voice34.4%This article: 8.4%Caolán Magee: 0.4%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Indoctrination8.4%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 1.2%Al Jazeera: 1.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Caolán Magee: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 8.4%Caolán Magee: 0.5%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…8.4%

154 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers32%attributed speech105writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageMohammad Bagher Ghalibaf • 26 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 100.0% coverageYemen’s Houthi • 23 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 35 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverage
100%flagged-word coverage
26 attributed words53% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+74.3 ptsWriter: 25.7%Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf: 100.0%100.0%Indoctrination-12.4 ptsWriter: 12.4%Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -12.4 ptsWriter: 12.4%Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf: 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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