The head of the United Nations' humanitarian agency said the cost of the U.S. war in Iran is equivalent to funding life-saving aid on a massive scale, highlighting the economic and human trade-offs of the conflict as it continues to expand.
Speaking at Chatham House in London, Tom Fletcher, the UN's undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said the roughly $2 billion a day being spent on the war could have financed efforts to save more than 87 million lives. "For every day of this conflict, $2bn is being spent," he said, adding that a $23bn humanitarian plan could have been funded "in less than a fortnight of this reckless war."
