Escalation trajectory · 90 days · composite of event frequency × severity × geographic spread
17,590
total events across belligerents · 91 daily data points
Annotated milestones
1 of 4
Source · intelligence_events · all severity tiersHover any annotated dot for full milestone
Fatalities · 90 days · weekly
2,188
single-side data only
Source · casualties_daily aggregated by ISO week13 weeks
Bottom Line
We assess with moderate confidence that the US-Iran conflict has reached a critical inflection point: the Strait of Hormuz remains closed to commercial shipping, a ceasefire is near collapse per President Trump's own characterization, and the resulting energy shock is reshaping global markets and diplomacy. Direct US-Islamic State kinetic activity is not documented in this evidence cycle; the dominant conflict axis is US-Iran, with second-order effects radiating globally.
Key
Top 10
High-severity events
Severity-ranked events touching this conflict's belligerents · last 30 days
Neodymium-Praseodymium· White Mesa MillUnited Statesmining—13.0%
Top 10 shown · global share % = country’s share of worldwide production at this stageFull dataset via API · contact
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 18 publications, stored in our ingestion pipeline across strategic_events, intelligence_events, threat_assessments, and entity_relationships.
Event volume and casualty counts key off US as the country anchor. Casualty figures above 100,000/day are filtered as extraction outliers pending manual review.
