The National

Where the score comes from

Each check on its own, out of 10. Tap one to see the sentences that scored.

• Takes the attackers’ claims on trustAre Israeli or US claims that those killed or sites struck were military targets carried without the verification caveat applied to Iranian sources?10.0n=12
• Leaves out what sanctions do to peopleContext, not scored: are sanctions framed as a clean policy response, or is their impact on Iranian civilians acknowledged?10.0n=103
• Who it blames for the ceasefireWho is blamed for obstructing or breaching a ceasefire, and are Iranian violations foregrounded over US or Israeli ones?6.6n=48
• Labels the dead as military targetsAre the Iranian dead, or the institution they belonged to, filed under a military or regime affiliation in the outlet's own voice, with no equivalent label on the attackers?6.0n=19
• Misleading headlineDoes the headline editorialise, hide agency, leave out deaths the article itself reports, or claim more than the article shows?5.9n=164
• Leaves out the lawHow the article treats international law: sovereign attack, the UN Charter, the NPT and IAEA standards.4.0n=186
• Hides who attackedWho is shown as initiating strikes, sabotage and escalation across Israel, the US and Iran, or does passive voice hide it?2.0n=164
• Calls the government ‘the regime’Is Iran's government delegitimised as 'the regime' in the journalist's own voice, or described in neutral terms?0.0n=33
• Assumes a nuclear weapons programmeIs the nuclear programme presupposed to be a weapons programme, or described neutrally with context?0.0n=42
• Calls allied groups proxiesAre Iran-aligned groups reduced to 'proxies', or treated as actors with their own local political context?0.0n=27
• Doubts one side’s death tollAre Iranian deaths attributed and tagged while Israeli or US deaths are stated as fact, in the same article?0.0n=17
• Turns the dead into numbersAre Iranian deaths treated as human losses (named, aged, with a profession or family) as much as Israeli or US deaths?Not yetn=0

Its most framed articles

From the last 90 days. Open one to read it with every flagged sentence marked.

1. 10.0UAE suspends flights by Iranian airlines until further noticeThe ceasefire blame is one-sided, the legal stakes go unmentioned, and the civilian cost of sanctions is ignored.
2. 8.0'IRGC agent' arrested in Cyprus for alleged surveillance of UK basePassive voice hides who attacked, the headline editorialises, and the legal stakes go unmentioned.
3. 7.6Red Cross head says aftershocks of Strait of Hormuz closure will still be felt in 2027Passive voice hides who attacked, the headline editorialises, and the legal stakes go unmentioned.
4. 7.4'Why are they killing our children?' asks family of Indian sailor killed in HormuzPassive voice hides who attacked.