How the Iran War Ignited a Geoeconomic Firestorm

The economic consequences of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran are coming into sharper focus as the conflict enters its third week.

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As the fallout expands beyond the Middle East and ripples through the global economy, markets and supply chains are being increasingly reshaped by the drones and missiles buzzing over the Gulf—and the United States has few options to de-escalate the conflict.

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In just over two weeks, the Iran war has already triggered what the International Energy Agency (IEA) calls the “largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.”

Before the war, roughly twenty million barrels of oil and petroleum products moved each day through the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important maritime chokepoint.

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Those flows have now slowed to a trickle.

Brent crude oil has surged above $100 per barrel, up from roughly $65 when tensions between the United States and Iran began heating up last month.

The consequences of the Iran conflict, which are already felt in the region, will reverberate globally as an exacerbated food crisis swells.

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The normally bustling Gulf is not only a regular channel for crude oil, but also for food and crucial agriculture fertilizers.

But with the war at risk of expanding and the Strait of Hormuz essentially shuttered, the effect on these states and the role they are unable to play in global food markets will prove significant.

Iranian drone strikes on its Gulf neighbors have targeted commercial data centers, damaging two Amazon facilities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and one in Bahrain.

The attacks caused widespread digital service disruptions in the UAE, including to the country’s banks.

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This marks the first time that any military has targeted commercial data centers, which are dual-use and extremely valuable.

These attacks expose a fundamental vulnerability in plans to concentrate the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in one of its most volatile regions.