Fifty-plus live sources covering the Iran crisis.
Intel Desk's Iran and Gulf coverage now runs across fifty-plus live sources (now 130+ across all regions), squawk feeds, mainstream wires, Iranian state-linked outlets, Farsi-language Telegram channels, ISW daily assessments and specialist analysts, auto-translated and filed on a 30-second cycle.
What shipped
The Iran / Gulf coverage has been expanded from a small core of wires to a fifty-plus source set, filed on a 30-second refresh cycle. The goal is to catch the headline where it is first published, often a Farsi Telegram channel or a regional squawk account, before the wire pickup, while still giving analysts the mainstream confirmation they need.
- Tier-1 squawk feeds. Fast, flagged for reliability, used for the first-filed time on case files.
- Mainstream wires. Reuters, AP, AFP, Bloomberg for confirmation steps.
- Iranian state-linked outlets. Tasnim, Fars, IRNA, Press TV, translated and clearly tagged as state-linked in the wire row.
- Farsi-language Telegram channels. Analyst and regime-adjacent channels, auto-translated into English on ingest, with the original Farsi retained for citation.
- Think-tank assessments. ISW daily reports, Royal United Services Institute, Washington Institute.
- Energy / shipping press. Argus, Platts, Tradewinds on Gulf tanker movements.
- Prediction markets. Polymarket Iran/Hormuz contracts for pricing cross-checks.
How the translation works
Farsi, Arabic and Russian items are translated on ingest and the translated English text is what the desk sorts, dedupes and alerts on. The original language string is retained and shown on expand, with the source URL, so an analyst can cite the original publication rather than the translation.
Why this matters
In a crisis, the time between a regime statement on Fars and a Reuters pickup can be ten to twenty minutes. For traders that is the difference between hearing the news and reacting to a price move. The expanded source set is how the desk closes that gap. For detail on how sources are tiered and verified, see the methodology and the full sources index.