Escalation trajectory · 90 days · composite of event frequency × severity × geographic spread
2,796
total events across belligerents · 86 daily data points
Annotated milestones
1 of 4
Source · intelligence_events · all severity tiersHover any annotated dot for full milestone
Fatalities · 90 days · weekly
9,664
9,451 Israel · 213 Iraq
IsraelIraq
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 moderate confidence that the US-Iran war (Day 23 of the current phase; Day 156 overall) is at a critical inflection point: President Trump has halted planned strikes described as the largest "since World War II" and announced talks resuming Monday (Aug 4), but Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and a new Houthi blockade of Saudi Arabia via Bab el-Mandeb remain in effect, sustaining maximum escalation risk despite diplomatic signaling.
Key Developments
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 16 publications, stored in our ingestion pipeline across strategic_events, intelligence_events, threat_assessments, and entity_relationships.
Event volume and casualty counts key off IL as the country anchor. Casualty figures above 100,000/day are filtered as extraction outliers pending manual review.
