UN Says Iran War Spending Could Have Saved 87 Million Lives, Warns on Violent Rhetoric
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The UN’s humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher says roughly $2 billion a week in US spending on its Iran conflict could have funded saving up to 87 million lives, and he warns that normalising violent threats risks empowering autocrats and civilian targeting. He describes a cataclysmic humanitarian-aid funding shortfall amid global cuts and rising inflation, criticizes UK aid policy, questions accepting conditional funding, and urges stronger protection for aid workers as crises deepen.
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