Iran unveils homegrown defense shield-busting hypersonic missile

Jun 07, 2023 View Original Article
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    2% Center

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    20% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    44% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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"The missile, which was unveiled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Tehran at a ceremony attended by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, is designed to penetrate all missile defense shield systems and destroy anti-missile systems, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency."
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2% Conservative
"Washington is concerned that Iran plans to develop nuclear weapons that could be loaded on ballistic missiles to menace Israel and other countries."
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-22% Liberal
"U.S. defense officials have warned that hypersonic weapons caot be detected and tracked by existing terrestrial and space-based sensor systems, with former Research and Engineering Defense Under Secretary Michael Griffin telling Congress in February that hypersonic targets are 10 to 20 times dimmer than what the United States normally tracks by satellites in geostationary orbit."
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-12% Liberal
"Griffin said the United States did not have systems which can hold [China and Russia] at risk in a corresponding maer, and we don't have defenses against [their] systems."
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-32% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The missile, which was unveiled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Tehran at a ceremony attended by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, is designed to penetrate all missile defense shield systems and destroy anti-missile systems, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
39% : Washington is concerned that Iran plans to develop nuclear weapons that could be loaded on ballistic missiles to menace Israel and other countries.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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