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Tuesday, 16 June 2026

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Tallying the global cost of the US-Israel war against Iran

· The Guardian

Tallying the global cost of the US-Israel war against Iran

It would be hard to find a human on Earth unaffected by the US-Israel war against Iran. Several thousand have been killed. Millions more pay are paying each day in steeper food prices or at the petrol pump, and as inflation eats away at the value of their earnings.

For many, the final bill has not yet come, but it will eventually. They will pay for the long-term damage caused by the biggest threat of all to the global economy: uncertainty.

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