Iran war live: US, Tehran signal peace deal within reach but not signed yet ⁠83%

By Lyndal Rowlands⁠86% Zaid Sabah⁠87% Zsombor Peter⁠0%

6/13/2026, 12:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Self-Serving Bias, and Recency Bias, with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 58.3% saturation with 49 hits. Analysis detected 357 faulty-reasoning hits from 84 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 75% and a BS Rank of ⁠83% (3,630 of 21,198 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 82.90% of the article peer group.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said a memorandum of understanding with the United States to end the war “has never been closer”, stressing also that media speculation about the deal should cease “pending its finalisation”. 
US President Donald Trump reposted the Iranian foreign minister’s statement on his Truth Social platform after earlier blasting Iran for alleged leaks to state media regarding details of the memorandum, calling the reports “fake news”. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 41.7%Lyndal Rowlands: 6.5%Al Jazeera: 2.7%Confirmation Bias41.7%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.4%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 5.8%Al Jazeera: 2.8%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.4%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 3.7%Al Jazeera: 2.1%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 16.7%Lyndal Rowlands: 23.0%Al Jazeera: 8.4%Framing Effect16.7%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.3%Al Jazeera: 0.5%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.9%Al Jazeera: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 58.3%Lyndal Rowlands: 4.3%Al Jazeera: 2.5%Optimism Bias58.3%This article: 16.7%Lyndal Rowlands: 4.2%Al Jazeera: 2.7%Pessimism Bias16.7%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 26.2%Al Jazeera: 10.3%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 41.7%Lyndal Rowlands: 2.7%Al Jazeera: 1.8%Self-Serving Bias41.7%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.4%Al Jazeera: 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.4%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.6%Al Jazeera: 1.4%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 2.5%Al Jazeera: 0.9%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 1.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.4%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 41.7%Lyndal Rowlands: 4.5%Al Jazeera: 1.8%Recency Bias41.7%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.7%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.1%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 6.9%Al Jazeera: 4.0%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 5.9%Al Jazeera: 1.8%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 3.6%Al Jazeera: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.5%Al Jazeera: 3.6%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 10.6%Al Jazeera: 5.1%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.0%Al Jazeera: 0.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 2.7%Al Jazeera: 3.3%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 41.7%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.3%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Tu Quoque41.7%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.6%Al Jazeera: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.7%Al Jazeera: 1.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 3.4%Al Jazeera: 2.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.3%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 41.7%Lyndal Rowlands: 13.7%Al Jazeera: 2.8%Unattributed Quote41.7%This article: 41.7%Lyndal Rowlands: 6.8%Al Jazeera: 1.6%Quote-first Misdirection41.7%This article: 41.7%Lyndal Rowlands: 10.2%Al Jazeera: 4.2%Biased Writer Voice41.7%This article: 41.7%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.3%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Indoctrination41.7%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.4%Al Jazeera: 1.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.5%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.6%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

84 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers83%attributed speech14writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageAbbas Araghchi • 35 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 35 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Donald Trump

100%flagged-word coverage
35 attributed words50% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Quote-first Misdirection+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Donald Trump: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Donald Trump: 100.0%100.0%

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

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Analysis

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