Iran war live: US launches new attacks; Hegseth says war has cost $37.5bn ⁠88%

By Enes Abuomer⁠43% Lyndal Rowlands⁠85% Zaid Sabah⁠87%

7/22/2026, 12:00:15 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Recency Bias, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 56.3% saturation with 67 hits. Analysis detected 335 faulty-reasoning hits from 119 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 81.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠88% (2,485 of 20,371 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 87.80% of the article peer group.

US bombs Iran for an 11th consecutive night as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the cost of the war has reached $37.5bn. 
US President Donald Trump threatens to attack a suspected Iranian nuclear site called Pickaxe Mountain “pretty soon, and very heavily”, prompting Tehran to threaten an expansion of the war in the region. 
Mediators step up efforts to end the hostilities as Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni holds talks with senior Pakistani officials, including Army Chief Asim Munir, in Islamabad. 
Trump meets Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and promises to broker peace with Israel, but will not say when Israeli troops might withdraw from southern Lebanon. 
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