About IranWarLive

The platform operates four independent intelligence pipelines covering every active dimension of the conflict:

• Air strikes & kinetic events — missile strikes, drone attacks, air operations, naval engagements, plotted on the live tactical map with full source attribution.
• Ground operations — troop advances, armor movements, encirclements, and territorial control changes via the Ground Operation map.
• Diplomatic intelligence — ceasefire status, peace proposals, ultimatums, and back-channel signals on the Diplomacy tracker.
• Strait of Hormuz status — ship transits, blockade enforcement, oil throughput, and maritime incidents on the Hormuz Status monitor.

Casualty data is tracked separately by faction at the Participants & Casualties page, sourced strictly from CENTCOM, IDF, Lebanese Health Ministry, and Iranian Foundation of Martyrs official figures. Every event carries an explicit confidence classification described in the methodology documentation.

Direct Contact

IranWarLive runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers with Google Sheets serving as the live database backend. Every two hours, automated pipelines ingest RSS feeds from BBC Middle East, NYT, The Guardian, Reuters via Google News, and conflict-specific search feeds. Each batch is processed by Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, which extracts distinct kinetic events, geographic coordinates, confidence classifications, and casualty data. Results are deduplicated through a three-layer signature system (URL, geographic, and time-window) before being written to Google Sheets.

The map front-end fetches Google Sheets data directly via PapaParse, which means no backend proxy is required — the browser fetches CSV directly from Google's CDN. The /feed.json endpoint is served from Cloudflare KV edge cache, and a structured /llms.txt file routes AI agents and answer engines to canonical content endpoints.

Full technical documentation, including the deduplication architecture, confidence classification system, and data limits, is available on the OSINT Methodology page.

IranWarLive is strictly politically agnostic. The platform does not editorialize, contextualize, or assign moral weight to any event. The system extracts the Subject (who acted), the Object (what was targeted), and the geographic coordinates, and plots the resulting vector on the map. No judgment is made about the legitimacy, legality, or justification of any military action.

The platform is not affiliated with any government, military, intelligence agency, political party, or advocacy organization. It accepts no sponsored content and has no advertising relationships at this time. It is funded exclusively through voluntary community support via the Buy Me a Coffee page.

Events are extracted from all qualifying sources regardless of perceived political alignment — Iranian state media events are ingested on the same basis as CENTCOM press releases, subject only to the confidence classification system that reflects their evidential weight.

IranWarLive has been adopted as a recurring source by independent defense reference platforms and integrated into open-source geospatial intelligence ecosystems. The full list of external citations and integrations is maintained on the Citations & References page.

You are welcome to cite IranWarLive as a source. The recommended citation format and source-reliability guidance are documented on the Citations & References page.

For machine-readable bulk data access:

• Live event feed: /feed.json
• LLM context file: /llms.txt
• Sitemap: /sitemap.xml
• Daily recap archive: Daily War Recap — 67-day chronological archive with full NewsArticle schema for each daily entry.

The platform was conceived and deployed within approximately eight hours of the conflict's onset on February 27–28, 2026. Since launch, it has continuously tracked the full theater across multiple distinct conflict phases: the initial 41-day kinetic phase, the April 7 Pakistan-brokered ceasefire, the April 13 onset of the US naval blockade and the parallel Iranian Hormuz restrictions creating the structural “dual blockade,” the April 17 Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, ongoing diplomatic exchanges via Pakistan and Oman backchannels, and the May 4 commencement of Project Freedom with renewed kinetic engagement in the Strait of Hormuz.

Geographic coverage spans Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, the Gulf states (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman), Jordan, Pakistan, the wider Indian Ocean theater, and Diego Garcia. Casualty tracking is maintained separately for each combatant and affected nation.