Claims extracted
13
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
15%
2 of 13 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
The Guardian's corrections and
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Outlets on this story
29
Politics
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
The oil price has fallen to its lowest level in more two weeks amid new hopes of a breakthrough to end the Iran war.
asserted
price → fall → war
Brent crude, the international benchmark, dropped by more than 6.5% to as low as $105.55 a barrel on Monday, the lowest since 16 October, sending shares in airline companies higher and pushing down government borrowing costs.
Oil prices fell after Tehran revealed that contacts between Iran and the US to end their eight-month war were continuing.
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contacts → drop → war
We have presented our conditions and proposals and everything depends on the political rationality of Washington,” the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said, according to the state media outlet IRNA.
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minister → present → outlet
Over the weekend, Qatari officials tried to negotiate the release of more than $6bn (£4.5bn) in Iranian assets, so that Tehran might allow the strait of Hormuz to reopen.
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strait → try → Hormuz
Donald Trump had earlier taken a belligerent tone, telling voters in Iowa on Sunday that Iran would receive “the hammer” unless there was progress.
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Iran → take → hammer
“The only reason why I’m not finished with Iran is I want to be nice.
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I → finish → Iran
I want to try and save all those lives if I can ...
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I → want → lives
But at some point we’re going to have to give them the hammer,” he said during a campaign rally in the run-up to the US midterm elections.
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he → go → elections
But investors were cheered by reports on Monday that Iran’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, had granted “powers” to his government in its talks with the US seeking to end the Middle East war.
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leader → cheer → war
Chris Beauchamp, the chief market analyst at the investing and trading platform IG, said: “The news is manna from heaven for stock markets, which have felt increasingly pressured by oil’s rise, but of course there is still a risk that Trump will try one last throw of the iron dice after the midterms.”
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Trump → say → midterms
The drop in the oil price sparked hopes of a break in the inflationary pressures gripping the global economy.
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drop → spark → economy
Government borrowing costs dropped, with the yield – or interest rate – on 10-year UK bonds down 10 basis points, or 0.1 of a percentage point, to the lowest since 22 September.
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costs → drop → September
Shares in British Airways’ parent company, IAG, rose by 4.2% in London, while United Airlines jumped 7% in New York.
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Airlines → rise → York
The Aporia
