American – Middle Eastern tension is not out of the ordinary. However, American – Iranian tension spiked in January 2020, and for a brief moment, conflict looked very possible.

Our dashboard captured both foreign – Iranian, Saudi Arabian, Israeli, Iraqi, and Russian – and domestic news metrics, allowing for comparison of perspectives across regions.  News sentiment, media risk perception, topic/entity trends, are just some of the many invaluable measures we extracted.

If you would like to see how our data driven approach shines light onto both the direct and indirect implications of a high tension affair, click this link: American Iranian Tension Dashboard