Iran war live: Tehran, Trump yet to comment on 60-day truce extension plan ⁠87%

By Lyndal Rowlands⁠95% Zaid Sabah⁠96% Adam Hancock⁠96%

5/28/2026, 5:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Confirmation Bias, with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 85.7% saturation with 78 hits. Analysis detected 386 faulty-reasoning hits from 91 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 71.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠87% (4,230 of 30,584 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 86.20% of the article peer group.

White House sources confirmed that the United States and Iran have reached an agreement on a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to extend the ceasefire for 60 days to allow for formal negotiations, but US President Donald Trump has yet to give his approval. 
Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency, citing a source close to the negotiating team, said the text of the MoU had not yet been finalised or confirmed, and the public would be notified once that occurred. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 47.3%Lyndal Rowlands: 6.1%Al Jazeera: 2.6%Confirmation Bias47.3%This article: 47.3%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.3%Al Jazeera: 0.7%Anchoring Bias47.3%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 5.4%Al Jazeera: 2.8%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.1%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.4%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 3.8%Al Jazeera: 2.0%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 14.3%Lyndal Rowlands: 22.5%Al Jazeera: 7.8%Framing Effect14.3%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.2%Al Jazeera: 0.5%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.9%Al Jazeera: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.1%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 4.2%Al Jazeera: 2.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 3.9%Al Jazeera: 2.6%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 52.7%Lyndal Rowlands: 25.3%Al Jazeera: 9.9%Negativity Bias52.7%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 2.9%Al Jazeera: 1.8%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.3%Al Jazeera: 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.4%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.6%Al Jazeera: 1.4%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 38.5%Lyndal Rowlands: 2.4%Al Jazeera: 0.9%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias38.5%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 1.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.4%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 4.2%Al Jazeera: 1.7%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.6%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.0%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 6.7%Al Jazeera: 3.8%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 5.7%Al Jazeera: 1.8%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 3.4%Al Jazeera: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.4%Al Jazeera: 3.4%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 10.4%Al Jazeera: 4.9%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.0%Al Jazeera: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 2.5%Al Jazeera: 3.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.6%Al Jazeera: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.7%Al Jazeera: 1.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 38.5%Lyndal Rowlands: 3.5%Al Jazeera: 2.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation)38.5%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.2%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.0%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 85.7%Lyndal Rowlands: 13.0%Al Jazeera: 2.6%Unattributed Quote85.7%This article: 47.3%Lyndal Rowlands: 6.6%Al Jazeera: 1.5%Quote-first Misdirection47.3%This article: 52.7%Lyndal Rowlands: 10.1%Al Jazeera: 3.9%Biased Writer Voice52.7%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.4%Al Jazeera: 0.7%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 0.6%Al Jazeera: 1.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.4%Al Jazeera: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lyndal Rowlands: 1.5%Al Jazeera: 0.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

91 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker38%attributed speech56writer words
Selected voice

Tasnim news agency

100%flagged-word coverage
35 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+76.8 ptsWriter: 23.2%Tasnim news agency: 100.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+23.2 ptsWriter: 76.8%Tasnim news agency: 100.0%100.0%Quote-first Misdirection-76.8 ptsWriter: 76.8%Tasnim news agency: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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