**Tools:** Python · GeoPandas · Matplotlib · ImageIO · Pillow

**Sources (all cross-verified):** Wikipedia · Al Jazeera · CSIS · USNI News · Naval News · The War Zone (TWZ) · Air & Space Forces Magazine · Washington Post · [war.gov](http://war.gov) · Iran International

**Key facts this viz captures that many summaries miss:**

**TWO different Iranian frigates were sunk:**  
\- **IRIS Jamaran** — at Chabahar pier, Day 1 (US airstrike, CENTCOM confirmed)  
\- **IRIS Dena** — torpedoed off Galle, Sri Lanka, Day 5 by a US submarine using a Mark 48 — first US sub kill since WWII (USNI, Al Jazeera, DoD)  
\- Total 20+ Iranian vessels sunk per JCS Gen. Caine

**B-2 Spirit bombers used GBU-31 2,000-lb guided bombs** — NOT the 30,000-lb GBU-57 MOP bunker busters (Air & Space Forces Mag., Reuters)

**\~180 girls were killed in the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school strike in Minab (Day 1)** — the largest single-incident civilian toll confirmed in the Wikipedia List of Attacks article

**Cyprus strike: CONFIRMED FALSE** — Wikipedia explicitly states the UK "later confirmed that there were NOT strikes against Cyprus"

**Israel bombed Iran's Assembly of Experts** while they were in an emergency session to elect the next supreme leader (Wikipedia)

*All stats are cumulative to end of UTC day. Conflict is ongoing — figures will continue to rise.*

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