NBC News35%
Send your questions for Richard Engel on the war with Iran and more 33%
By NBC News36%
7/22/2026, 6:21:09 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 34.9% saturation with 30 hits. Analysis detected 49 faulty-reasoning hits from 86 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 41.5% and a BS Rank of 33% (14,731 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 67.30% of the article peer group.
The United States is about to enter its fifth month of war with Iran, and NBC News’ chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel has been covering all the developments.
A few weeks after returning from Iran, where he covered the funeral of the former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Engel will answer your questions in a Q&A for subscribers.
Submit your questions for Richard Engel.
He may answer them Thursday at 4 p.m.
ET.
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Appeal to Authority
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