The Spectator Article Rating

Why won't Cleverly stand up to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards?

  • Bias Rating

    80% Very Conservative

  • Reliability

    15% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    90% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    52% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : For the first time this will allow ministers to sanction individuals for their activities inside the UK, and not just in Iran.
49% : Officials are worried about possible Iranian retaliatory action, for example, a move to expel the UK ambassador to Tehran.
40% : European nations, including France and Germany, remain more interested in keeping dialogue open with the regime over a deal that would stop Tehran from developing the capacity to produce a nuclear weapon.
39% : It is the most effective way of sending an unequivocal message to Iran that Britain will not tolerate state-sponsored terrorism.
38% : Just as inadequate are Cleverly's reassurances that Britain is leading the way at the United Nations in condemning Iran's behaviour.
37% : The problem it faces is that the IRGC is so critical to the military power structure in Tehran that proscribing it would effectively label the entire regime as terrorist.
27% : Tehran has publicly called for the killing and capture of the people targeted and in some cases detained or harassed their family members in Iran.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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