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Iran protest videos show violent clashes with police, loud bangs amid chaos

Jul 23, 2021 View Original Article
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    50% Medium Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    64% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    38% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The NetBlocks internet monitoring service reported Wednesday a "significant regional disruption" to mobile internet access in Iran.
41% : The videos -- provided by members of the outlawed People's Mojahedin of Iran (MEK) -- also appeared to show security forces clashing with protesters.
38% : Opposition activists and human rights groups fear a repeat of the violent suppression of mass protests in Iran at the end of 2019.
31% : Iran considers the MEK a terrorist organization.

*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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