Depending on who you want to trust — whether it be Donald Trump — the war in Iran is either going exactly as planned or, according to Trump again, it now requires allies to chip in. Regardless, Trump claims that his predecessors approve of everything he has been doing in Iran. The only problem is that all of them claim not to have been in touch with him.
At this point, the war in the Middle East has led to the deaths of multiple Iranian citizens and leaders alike — the latest being Israel claiming it killed Ali Larijani. But there are greater consequences to this conflict that go beyond military targets. Despite Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu claiming that this war will push Iranians to start a revolution against what’s left of the regime, the reality is that the targeting of critical infrastructure within Iran has now left 45 million Iranians at risk of acute hunger, according to the World Food Programme.
