Iran war live: US launches new attacks; Hegseth says war has cost $37.5bn 88%

By Enes Abuomer42% Lyndal Rowlands84% Zaid Sabah86%

7/22/2026, 12:00:15 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Recency Bias, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 56.3% saturation with 67 hits. Analysis detected 335 faulty-reasoning hits from 119 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 81.2% and a BS Rank of 88% (2,424 of 19,443 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 87.50% of the article peer group.

US bombs Iran for an 11th consecutive night as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the cost of the war has reached $37.5bn. 
US President Donald Trump threatens to attack a suspected Iranian nuclear site called Pickaxe Mountain “pretty soon, and very heavily”, prompting Tehran to threaten an expansion of the war in the region. 
Mediators step up efforts to end the hostilities as Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni holds talks with senior Pakistani officials, including Army Chief Asim Munir, in Islamabad. 
Trump meets Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and promises to broker peace with Israel, but will not say when Israeli troops might withdraw from southern Lebanon. 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
22.7%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
47.9%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
18.5%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
21%
Negativity Bias
56.3%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
29.4%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
0%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
0%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
26.9%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
21%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
26.9%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
10.9%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

119 words analyzed.

Analysis

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