Live third-party sources

Systemic impact

Four panels, four external sources. Each one is fetched live — the maritime and cyber maps are the providers' own embeds, the market data comes from Stooq and TradingView, and the displacement figures come straight from UNHCR's public API.

Maritime traffic — Strait of Hormuz

Live AIS vessel positions from MarineTraffic, centred on the strait. Roughly a fifth of the world's seaborne oil passes through this channel. Zoom and pan directly in the map.

Source: MarineTraffic. If the map stays blank, the provider is blocking embedding — open it directly.

Oil and gas markets

Session quotes pulled through this site's own API, with TradingView's interactive charts underneath for Brent and WTI.

Brent Crude · ICE

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WTI Crude · NYMEX

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Natural Gas · Henry Hub

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Charts: TradingView. Quotes: Stooq — delayed and indicative, not for trading.

Cyber activity

Check Point's ThreatCloud map showing attacks detected across their global sensor network in real time. This is worldwide traffic, not Iran-specific — treat it as ambient context rather than attribution.

Source: Check Point ThreatCloud. Some providers block embedding — if this stays blank, open it directly.

Displacement — UNHCR

Refugees, asylum seekers and others in need of international protection, from UNHCR's Refugee Data Finder API. End-year figures publish the following June, so this is the most recent complete year available.

By country of origin

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By host country

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Middle East displacement — 11 year trend

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Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder (Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Palestine, Lebanon, Afghanistan).

Sanctions and diplomacy

No live panel here, and that's deliberate — see the note below. The closest honest substitute is the reporting itself, filtered to sanctions and economic coverage.

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Why there's no OFAC panel The old dashboard showed a live OFAC designation log. OFAC retired its public RSS feed on 31 January 2025 and now only pushes updates by email, so there is no free endpoint to drive that panel. The designations, dates and entity names previously displayed there were not from OFAC — they were written by hand. Same for the military tracker and the negotiation tracks. Rebuilding them would mean inventing the data again, so I left them out. Real options exist if you want them back: the full SDN list is still published as XML and could be filtered for Iran-related entries, and ACLED offers conflict event data with a free registered API key.