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Iran seizes oil tanker in Gulf of Oman, U.S. Navy says - UPI.com

Apr 27, 2023 View Original Article
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    6% Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -55% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : The U.S. Navy announced Thursday that Iran seized an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman.
42% :The Navy said that it was not immediately clear why Iran seized the vessel Thursday, but this is not the first time something like this has happened.
42% : "In the past two years, Iran has unlawfully seized at least five commercial vessels sailing in the Middle East."
38% :Read More After 60 years of foreign policy blunders, U.S. should rethink China strategy United States, Britain sanction Iranian forces that cracked down on protesters U.S. imposes new sanctions on Iran targeting network procuring drone parts
18% :Tensions between the United States and Iran have increased as Washington has repeatedly accused Iran of supplying drones to Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

*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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