Nika Nikoubin: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : According to Haaretz, Soleimani "was considered one of the people closest to Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei."
49% :How powerful was Soleimani?
44% : The New Yorker article says that Soleimani has the blood of American soldiers on his hands; he was known for "assassinating rivals, arming allies, and, for most of a decade, directing a network of militant groups that killed hundreds of Americans in Iraq."
42% : In a 2013 profile story, The New Yorker called Soleimani the "shadow commander" who was "reshaping the Middle East" and "directing Assad's war in Syria."
40% : "She advised that there are injustices, in particular the killing of Qasem Soleimani in Iran," homeland security detectives said in the report, according to the newspaper.
39% :The statement said that Soleimani and his Quds force "were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more.

*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.