The Independent81%
Iran-US war live: Trump cancels attack on Tehran and claims peace deal breakthrough 73%
By Shweta Sharma96%
8/2/2026, 12:29:11 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Quote-first Misdirection, and Optimism Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 22.7% saturation with 51 hits. Analysis detected 399 faulty-reasoning hits from 225 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 59.6% and a BS Rank of 73% (6,936 of 25,185 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 72.50% of the article peer group.
US president Donald Trump says he will hold off on a threatened fresh round of strikes against Iran after “the perimeters of a deal [have] been agreed to” by Tehran and America’s Middle East allies.
Trump said he had cancelled the strikes “subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL”, and that Israel had agreed to support the move.
Earlier, Trump told a cabinet meeting that new strikes would take place as soon as this weekend, telling a cabinet meeting on Friday: “We will be hitting them very hard.
At some point, they’re going to say, ‘We just can’t take it anymore.’”
Tehran had warned him against any further “aggression”, with Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said in a phone call with his Saudi counterpart that any "aggression" by the US and Israel or participation of regional countries in these actions will be met with a strong response, according to Araghchi’s Telegram account.
Both countries have resumed direct strikes after a brief truce collapsed last month, with negotiations to secure a ceasefire failing to make significant progress.
In other Middle East news, Mr Trump said Israel was "very happy" with the agreement reached by the Board of Peace for the complete disarmament of Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups in Gaza.
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