The corpus

Recurrence across published work

Single articles report events. Held together, they show structure — the same actors returning, and returning beside each other. This is drawn from the desk’s permanent archive, not from a feed, so it deepens with every piece rather than resetting.

220Articles archived

1,621Distinct actors

3,844Actor–article links

80Drawn here

Pairings that keep returning

Counted by the number of published pieces naming both. A pairing is an observation about the record, not a claim about causation.

Hormuz & Iran53 pieces
Iran & Washington50 pieces
Iran & Tehran45 pieces
Hormuz & Washington42 pieces
Tehran & Washington41 pieces
Hormuz & Tehran38 pieces
Iran & United States37 pieces
United States & Washington36 pieces