About WW3.press

WW3.press covers one story: the confrontation between Iran, Israel and the United States, and what it is doing to the people who live under it. We report from the public record. Every factual statement links to the document, statement or report it rests on, and every contested claim carries a label saying how far it has been verified.

Why the name

Whenever a missile is launched in the Middle East, “WW3” starts trending within the hour, and almost everything people find when they search for it is guesswork, either hysteria or reassurance, with nothing underneath either one.

You are not wrong to be frightened. There is a war on, it is in its seventh month, a nuclear-armed coalition is fighting a state whose fissile material nobody has been able to find for over a year, and the people running it are saying out loud that they are weighing whether to destroy a government. Being told to calm down is not reporting.

So we do not tell you to calm down. We tell you exactly how close this is, on a ten-level scale that ends where you think it ends, and we show you the evidence for every level. The number is on every page of this site.

What we will not do is inflate it. The scale can go down, and has. We assign no probabilities, because we would be making them up. The name is the question you arrived with; the scale is our answer, and it is falsifiable.

What we publish

• Situation reports that set out where the conflict, the ceasefire and the diplomacy stand, with the date and time they were last reviewed.
• The nuclear file: what inspectors, governments and independent analysts say about Iran’s programme, kept separate so that it is clear who is asserting what.
• Inside Iran: politics, rights, the economy and daily life, drawing on rights monitors, official data and agency reporting.
• Energy and shipping: the Strait of Hormuz, oil markets, tankers and sanctions enforcement.
• Investigations built from documents and open-source evidence, with the evidence linked so readers can check the finding themselves.
• Opinion and editorial roundtables that examine the arguments, incentives and consequences behind our reporting. Our house voices have distinct perspectives; every factual claim remains subject to the same source checking.
• Two running trackers: a timeline of the crisis and a claim ledger recording what governments and armed groups have asserted and what the evidence shows.

What we are not

We have no correspondents in Iran, Israel or the Gulf, and we do not pretend otherwise. We do not publish anonymous briefings of our own. When a news agency reports something on the word of unnamed officials, we tell you that is what it is. When we cannot establish something, we say we do not know.

How the work is produced

Reports are compiled by the WW3.press desk from public records, official statements, news-agency reporting, rights monitors and open-source data. We use AI research tools to gather, translate and cross-check material. Those tools do not get the last word: a statement is published only when it can be checked against a source we link, and AI is never used to create quotations, images, video or facts. Mistakes are ours, and we correct them in public. How we verify sets out the rules in full.

Independence and funding

WW3.press is independently owned and paid for by its publisher. It takes no money from any government, political party, armed group or advocacy organisation. It carries no advertising and no sponsored content. If that changes, this page will say so before it happens.

Contact

Corrections go to corrections@ww3.press, documents and leads to tips@ww3.press, everything else to editor@ww3.press. Read the contact page before sending anything sensitive.