The Times Article Rating

Iranian terrorist freed in prisoner swap with Belgium

  • Bias Rating

    42% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    5% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    42% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    26% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : A convicted Iranian terrorist and spy, acting under orders from the highest levels of Iran's regime, is on his way back to Tehran after a prisoner swap with a Belgian aid worker.
35% : Assadollah Assadi, 51, was serving a 20-year sentence for plotting a bomb attack on the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the Iranian opposition group, in Villepinte near Paris in June 2018.

*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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