Iran war live: US launches more attacks; UAE says 1 killed in tanker strike ⁠50%

By Lyndal Rowlands⁠86% Zaid Sabah⁠87%

7/13/2026, 5:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Availability Heuristic, and Quote-first Misdirection, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 84.3% saturation with 97 hits. Analysis detected 468 faulty-reasoning hits from 115 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 50% and a BS Rank of ⁠50% (11,081 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 50.60% of the article peer group.

The US is carrying out more attacks on Iran, with Iranian media reporting explosions in Kish Island, Qeshm Island, Bushehr and Bandar Abbas. 
Iran says it attacked US military sites in Kuwait, Bahrain and a “hostile vessel of the American enemy”. 
The United Arab Emirates says two of its national tankers have been targeted by Iranian cruise missiles, with one crew member killed and several others wounded. 
US President Donald Trump says a US blockade will be reinstated on Iranian ports in the coming hours, and Washington will “become the guardian” of the Strait of Hormuz for a 20 percent fee. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 6.3%Al Jazeera: 2.7%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.4%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 42.6%Lyndal Rowlands: 5.7%Al Jazeera: 2.8%Availability Heuristic42.6%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.1%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: 3.9%Al Jazeera: 2.1%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 29.6%Lyndal Rowlands: 23.5%Al Jazeera: 8.5%Framing Effect29.6%This article: 29.6%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.3%Al Jazeera: 0.6%Loss Aversion29.6%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: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 4.4%Al Jazeera: 2.5%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 4.1%Al Jazeera: 2.7%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 84.3%Lyndal Rowlands: 26.4%Al Jazeera: 10.3%Negativity Bias84.3%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 3.1%Al Jazeera: 1.8%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.3%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: 0.7%Al Jazeera: 1.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 15.7%Lyndal Rowlands: 2.5%Al Jazeera: 0.9%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias15.7%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: 12.2%Lyndal Rowlands: 4.4%Al Jazeera: 1.8%Recency Bias12.2%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: 7.0%Al Jazeera: 4.0%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 29.6%Lyndal Rowlands: 5.9%Al Jazeera: 1.9%False Dilemma29.6%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: 15.7%Lyndal Rowlands: 10.9%Al Jazeera: 5.1%Appeal to Emotion15.7%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.1%Al Jazeera: 0.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 2.6%Al Jazeera: 3.3%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%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: 15.7%Lyndal Rowlands: 3.7%Al Jazeera: 2.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)15.7%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.2%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: 58.3%Lyndal Rowlands: 13.6%Al Jazeera: 2.8%Unattributed Quote58.3%This article: 41.7%Lyndal Rowlands: 6.8%Al Jazeera: 1.6%Quote-first Misdirection41.7%This article: 32.2%Lyndal Rowlands: 10.5%Al Jazeera: 4.2%Biased Writer Voice32.2%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.4%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.6%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: 1.5%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

115 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers68%attributed speech37writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 100.0% coverageIran • 18 words • 100.0% coverageUnited Arab Emirates • 26 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 34 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Donald Trump

100%flagged-word coverage
34 attributed words44% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-100.0 ptsWriter: 100.0%Donald Trump: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection+62.2 ptsWriter: 37.8%Donald Trump: 100.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote-62.2 ptsWriter: 62.2%Donald Trump: 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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