Escalation trajectory · 90 days · composite of event frequency × severity × geographic spread
17,331
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
532,139
single-side data only
Source · casualties_daily aggregated by ISO week14 weeks
Market signal · Brent crude
—
USD/bbl · live data pending
Bottom Line
We assess with high confidence that the US-Iran war has entered a dangerous new escalation phase following direct military exchanges in the Strait of Hormuz, imperiling a month-old ceasefire and driving Brent crude back above $100/barrel. The conflict is generating severe second-order economic shocks across global markets, energy supply chains, and food systems, with no credible diplomatic off-ramp visible in the next 72 hours.
Key Developments (last 24–48 hours)
**May
Top 10
High-severity events
Severity-ranked events touching this conflict's belligerents · last 30 days
Oil, lithium, semiconductors, rare-earth, and other strategic commodities
Critical resource exposure · pipeline pending
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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 IR as the country anchor. Casualty figures above 100,000/day are filtered as extraction outliers pending manual review.
