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How The Iran War Is Becoming a World War

The video outlines how former President Donald Trump, in coordination with Israel, launched a massive military operation on February 28, killing Iran’s 86‑year‑old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and targeting senior Iranian officials. The opening salvo involved coordinated Israeli air strikes on leadership compounds and a U.S. campaign that has already delivered more than 2,000 airstrikes, sinking nearly the entire Iranian navy and achieving the first U.S. submarine kill since World War II. U.S. and Israeli forces have escalated at a pace surpassing the 2003 Iraq “Shock and Awe” campaign, with Israel claiming roughly a thousand daily targets across Iran. Human‑rights groups report over a thousand civilian deaths, while the exact Iranian military casualties remain unclear. Iran’s response has been swift and wide‑ranging, launching hundreds of ballistic missiles and thousands of kamikaze drones at the Gulf Cooperation Council states, striking high‑profile sites such as Dubai’s Fairmont Hotel and Amazon data centers in the region. The attacks have already disrupted critical infrastructure: Saudi oil refineries have been hit, and Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint through which a third of global oil and a fifth of LNG flow. The resulting shutdown has pushed crude prices up more than 14 % and European gas prices over 70 %, while Gulf nations deplete interceptor stocks at rates five times higher than during the First Gulf War. The broader implication is a potential spiral into a global conflict that could cripple energy markets, inflate inflation worldwide, and force multinational firms to reassess exposure to the Middle East. With interceptor supplies dwindling and economic stakes mounting, pressure on the United States and its allies to de‑escalate will intensify, even as Iran seeks to leverage the chaos to force a political settlement.