Claims extracted
18
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
33%
6 of 18 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
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no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
67/100
Fox News's corrections and
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Outlets on this story
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Politics
Same framing elsewhere
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articles that frame the event the way this one does
The FBI on Tuesday placed a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on its Most Wanted Terrorists list for allegedly soliciting the murders of two former U.S. government officials.
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FBI → place → officials
Shahram Poursafi is accused of hiring individuals to kill the officials between October 2021 and April 2022, according to the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
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Poursafi → accuse → Office
Court documents detail an alleged plot targeting former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
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documents → detail → Bolton
The assassination plot was believed to have been initiated in retaliation for the January 2020 killing of IRGC commander Qasem Soleimani, who led a unit of the Qods Force, one of the IRGC's five divisions responsible for developing and carrying out lethal plotting operations.
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who → believe → operations
Poursafi allegedly worked on behalf of the division and sought to pay individuals in the U.S. $300,000 to carry out the assassination.
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Poursafi → work → assassination
Separately, the FBI released wanted posters seeking information on three alleged IRGC officials from the same Qods Force unit.
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FBI → release → unit
The individuals were identified as Mohammad Reza Ansari, Abolfazl Alizadeh and Mohammad Hossein Shamoradizadeh.
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individuals → identify → Ansari
Ansari is an alleged deputy who has supported IRGC operations in Syria.
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who → allege → Syria
He also allegedly planned and attempted to assassinate two former U.S. government officials with the Poursafi’s support.
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He → plan → support
Alizadeh and Shamoradizadeh are both alleged battalion commanders who have participated in lethal plotting operations.
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who → allege → operations
According to a 2022 Justice Department complaint announcing the charges against Poursafi, Poursafi initially plotted the assassination by asking a U.S. resident he had previously met online to take photographs of Bolton, claiming the images were for a book he was writing.
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he → accord → book
Poursafi later offered another U.S. contact up to $300,000 to "eliminate" the former national security advisor.
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Poursafi → offer → advisor
Poursafi also told the contact he had an additional "job" for which he would pay $1 million.
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he → tell → million
The plot ultimately fell through as the contact was a confidential human source working with the FBI, often considered civilian informants.
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contact → fall → FBI
Poursafi was charged with using communication or travel networks across state lines to carry out a paid assassination.
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Poursafi → charge → assassination
He was also accused of supplying resources or assistance for an international murder plot, according to a Justice Department complaint.
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He → accuse → complaint
A special agent in charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office said the agency will continue to disrupt lethal plots and bring IRGC members to justice for threatening U.S. individuals.
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agency → say → individuals
"The FBI will not stand for the IRGC’s brazen attempts to silence, harm or murder activists, dissidents, journalists, public officials or anyone else it deems a threat," Gregory Heeb of the FBI Washington Field Office’s Counterterrorism Division said.
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Heeb → stand → Division
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