NY Times Article Rating

Saudi and Iranian Foreign Ministers Meet in China After Thaw

Apr 06, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -65% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : "Iran is our neighbor, and has been, and will continue to be for hundreds of years."
55% : The Iranian cities of Tehran and Mashhad already appear as possible destinations on the website of Saudia, Saudi Arabia's state airline, but no flights are scheduled.
51% : The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and Iran held talks in Beijing on Thursday in the highest-level meeting between the regional rivals since they cut ties seven years ago, discussing the resumption of flights and the reopening of diplomatic missions.
51% :Asked during a conference in Riyadh last month whether Saudi Arabia would begin investing in Iran, the Saudi finance minister Mohammed al-Jadaan said it could happen quickly if the agreement held.
46% : The Saudi foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, and his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said they would move forward with steps to reopen their embassies in Tehran and Riyadh, which have been closed since 2016, according to the statement.
44% : Iran is grappling with domestic unrest and an economy waylaid by sanctions, while Saudi Arabia's leadership is overseeing a daunting plan to diversify the economy away from oil, providing both with incentives to resolve their external conflicts.
35% : He did not address whether that would bring Saudi Arabia into conflict with American and European sanctions on Iran.
31% : Hostilities hit a peak in 2019 when a missile and drone assault on a crucial Saudi oil installation briefly disrupted half of the kingdom's crude production; Iran-backed fighters in Yemen claimed responsibility, but U.S. officials said that Iran had directly overseen the attack.

*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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