Escalation trajectory · 90 days · composite of event frequency × severity × geographic spread
4,362
total events across belligerents · 87 daily data points
Annotated milestones
2 of 4
Source · intelligence_events · all severity tiersHover any annotated dot for full milestone
Fatalities · 90 days · weekly
3,248
single-side data only
Source · casualties_daily aggregated by ISO week14 weeks
Market signal · Brent crude
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USD/bbl · live data pending
Bottom Line
We assess with high confidence that the US-Iran conflict has reached a sustained, high-intensity warfighting phase, with the US conducting its 10th consecutive night of strikes against Iran — including a strike near the Darkhovin nuclear facility — while Iran is actively striking US bases, Gulf maritime targets, and commercial infrastructure across Bahrain, Kuwait, and the Strait of Hormuz. Ceasefire proposals have been tabled but show no traction amid escalatory rhetoric from bo
Top 10
High-severity events
Severity-ranked events touching this conflict's belligerents · last 30 days
No dispatches indexed for this conflict in the last 30 days.
Methodology
This brief was drafted daily by Claude Opus/Haiku under an ICD 203 analytic-tradecraft prompt: bottom line up-front, calibrated probability language (“likely,” “highly likely”), explicit confidence levels, and alternative-analysis sections. Drawn from 20 dispatches across 10 publications, stored in our ingestion pipeline across strategic_events, intelligence_events, threat_assessments, and entity_relationships.
Event volume and casualty counts key off IR as the country anchor. Casualty figures above 100,000/day are filtered as extraction outliers pending manual review.
