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US Prisoners Return Home After 'Nightmare' Imprisonment in Iran

  • Bias Rating

    90% Very Conservative

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    96% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -23% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul, a prominent Republican, said the transfer of the $6 billion could encourage Iran to detain more U.S. citizens.
47% : "We will continue to impose costs on Iran for their provocative actions in the region," he said.Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, who was in New York for the annual U.N. General Assembly, called the swap a humanitarian action.
46% : After the transfer was confirmed, the five U.S. prisoners plus two relatives took off on a Qatari plane from Tehran, at the same time as two of the five Iranian detainees landed in Doha on their way home.
44% : Biden aides say the money belongs to Iran and is being transferred from restricted South Korean accounts to restricted accounts in Qatar, which will monitor the cash to ensure it is spent on humanitarian goods not items under U.S. sanctions.
42% : Three Iranians chose not to go to Iran.
37% : U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken left the door open to nuclear diplomacy, but suggested nothing was imminent.
30% : Washington suspects Iran's nuclear program may be aimed at developing nuclear arms, a charge Iran denies.
20% : The deal removes a point of friction between the United States, which brands Tehran a sponsor of terrorism, and Iran, which calls Washington the "Great Satan".
18% : Relations between the United States and Iran have been especially bitter since 2018 when then-President Donald Trump pulled out of a deal aimed at curbing Tehran's nuclear ambitions and toughened U.S. sanctions.

*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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