NBC News41%
Iran’s supreme leader vows revenge for father’s killing6%
By NBCNews.com49%
7/11/2026, 11:23:35 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 0 faulty reasoning types, including no named faulty reasoning patterns yet, with no single egregious example has been isolated yet. Analysis detected 0 faulty-reasoning hits from 85 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 22% and a BS Rank of 6% (13,592 of 14,328 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 94.90% of the article peer group.
Iranian state media reports that the Revolutionary Guard says the Strait of Hormuz is closed until further notice. It comes as Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is vowing revenge for his father’s killing, saying it is the “demand” of his country. Khamenei has not been seen since he was severely injured when the war began. His father was killed early in the war by U.S. and Israeli air strikes. NBC News’ Julie Tsirkin has the latest.
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85 words analyzed.
Speakers
1speaker28%attributed speech61writer words
Selected voice
100%flagged-word coverageMojtaba Khamenei
24 attributed words100% of attributed speech0% writer coverage
WriterSpeaker0–5% shared scale
No manipulation-pattern hits were found in this speaker's attributed words or the writer's voice.
Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.
Analysis
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