Iran war live: US military carries out another wave of strikes on Iran ⁠75%

By Heba Habib⁠87% Enes Abuomer⁠44%

7/20/2026, 12:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Unattributed Quote, and Confirmation Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 49.1% saturation with 56 hits. Analysis detected 375 faulty-reasoning hits from 114 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 66.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠75% (5,592 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 74.50% of the article peer group.

US Central Command (CENTCOM) says it has begun a new wave of air strikes against Iran tonight, for the ninth consecutive night, to continue degrading Iran’s military capabilities used to attack commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. 
A US service member has died in northern Iraq after a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian drone, according to CENTCOM. 
The US military says its forces redirected six commercial vessels and disabled another while enforcing a naval blockade on Iran. 
The Iranian atomic agency says multiple projectiles hit the under-construction Darkhovin nuclear power plant site, according to local media. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 33.3%Heba Habib: 3.8%Al Jazeera: 2.7%Confirmation Bias33.3%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.8%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 37.7%Heba Habib: 4.2%Al Jazeera: 2.8%Availability Heuristic37.7%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.8%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.4%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.9%Al Jazeera: 2.1%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 28.9%Heba Habib: 17.5%Al Jazeera: 8.5%Framing Effect28.9%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 1.4%Al Jazeera: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 3.3%Al Jazeera: 2.5%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 3.2%Al Jazeera: 2.7%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 49.1%Heba Habib: 21.6%Al Jazeera: 10.3%Negativity Bias49.1%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 1.1%Al Jazeera: 1.8%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 1.0%Al Jazeera: 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 17.5%Heba Habib: 0.3%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias17.5%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 1.6%Al Jazeera: 1.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.9%Al Jazeera: 0.9%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 5.5%Al Jazeera: 1.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.8%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 11.4%Heba Habib: 1.9%Al Jazeera: 1.8%Recency Bias11.4%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.6%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.6%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 33.3%Heba Habib: 7.6%Al Jazeera: 4.0%Appeal to Authority33.3%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 3.4%Al Jazeera: 1.9%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 2.6%Al Jazeera: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 2.7%Al Jazeera: 3.6%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.6%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 10.7%Al Jazeera: 5.1%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 1.6%Al Jazeera: 0.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 3.1%Al Jazeera: 3.3%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.6%Al Jazeera: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.8%Al Jazeera: 1.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 16.7%Heba Habib: 3.2%Al Jazeera: 2.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)16.7%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.3%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 34.2%Heba Habib: 4.4%Al Jazeera: 2.8%Unattributed Quote34.2%This article: 33.3%Heba Habib: 3.5%Al Jazeera: 1.6%Quote-first Misdirection33.3%This article: 33.3%Heba Habib: 10.4%Al Jazeera: 4.2%Biased Writer Voice33.3%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 1.7%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 2.2%Al Jazeera: 1.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Heba Habib: 2.3%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

114 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers89%attributed speech13writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageUS Central Command (CENTCOM) • 38 words • 100.0% coverageUS Central Command (CENTCOM) • 24 words • 0.0% coverageUS military • 20 words • 100.0% coverageIranian atomic agency • 19 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Iranian atomic agency

100%flagged-word coverage
19 attributed words19% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Iranian atomic agency: 100.0%100.0%

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

Loading…
Loading…
Loading…

Analysis

Hover over highlighted words in the article to view the associated bias or fallacy analysis.