Every source is named. Nothing is proprietary and nothing is scraped from behind a paywall.
Eleven curated feeds: Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, BBC Middle East, Al Jazeera, Guardian Iran, New York Times Middle East, Washington Post World, Iran International, IranWire, US Department of Defense, and Liveuamap.
ACLED, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project, provides human coded protest and armed clash events with verified coordinates and fatality counts.
The open market rial exchange rate, Brent crude, and Polymarket contract pricing.
Three sources on the map are not derived from news at all. USGS publishes seismic events. NASA FIRMS publishes satellite thermal anomalies, filtered to exclude Iran's permanent gas flares. IODA, run by Georgia Tech, measures internet outages, which is the one signal here that records an action by the state rather than a report about one.