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

The Guardian · June 15, 2026 War

From thousands of lives lost to an economic shock likely to plunge millions into poverty, the world is paying dearly 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.

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