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Iran, Saudi Arabia FMs meet in China, agree to expand ties

Apr 06, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    52% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -61% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% :Thursday's meeting outlined the new direction Iran and Saudi Arabia plan to take.
48% : "We can [now[ say that official relations have been activated between Iran and Saudi Arabia," said Amir-Abdollahian, according to Iran's state-owned Islamic Republic News Agency.
41% : During Biden's visit to the kingdom in July of last year, he told Arab leaders that Washington would not stand aside and allow China, Iran and Russia to take over its role in the region.
30% : The kingdom and Iran severed ties in 2016 after protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran following the execution in Saudi Arabia of a prominent Shiite cleric.

*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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