NBC News35%

Iran’s supreme leader vows revenge for father’s killing 6%

By NBCNews.com21%

7/11/2026, 11:23:35 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Recency Bias, and Indoctrination, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 54.1% saturation with 46 hits. Analysis detected 159 faulty-reasoning hits from 85 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 22% and a BS Rank of 6% (20,644 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 94.30% of the article peer group.

Iranian state media reports that the Revolutionary Guard says the Strait of Hormuz is closed until further notice. 
It comes as Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is vowing revenge for his father’s killing, saying it is the “demand” of his country. 
Khamenei has not been seen since he was severely injured when the war began. 
His father was killed early in the war by U.S. and Israeli air strikes. 
NBC News’ Julie Tsirkin has the latest. 
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85 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers36%attributed speech54writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 100.0% coverageMojtaba Khamenei • 24 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageNBC News • 7 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Mojtaba Khamenei

100%flagged-word coverage
24 attributed words77% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Indoctrination+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Mojtaba Khamenei: 100.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote-33.3 ptsWriter: 33.3%Mojtaba Khamenei: 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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