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U.S. Announces Sanctions Against Iran

  • Bias Rating

    48% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -61% Negative

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1% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : While the Axios report may be hopeful, it's worth reminding that the United States already had sanctions in place against Iran, and yet the Biden administration has still allowed them to access billions of dollars thanks to the release of $6 billion as part of a hostage negotiation, unfreezing $10 billion by extending a waiver sanction for funds frozen in Iraq, and the refusal to enforce oil sanctions on IranThe $6 billion that was released as part of a hostage negotiation--with that announcement coming on the anniversary of September 11, no less--is mentioned towards the very end of the report.

*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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