For the Gulf, War Has an Ecological Price

The environmental cost of the Iran war is being paid by the systems that sustain daily life across the Gulf.

By Rumaitha Al Busaidi

During the initial 39 days of war, U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran moved beyond oil depots to energy and petrochemical infrastructure and Iranian retaliatory strikes hit power, fuel, and desalination systems across the Gulf. More than 400 incidents carrying potential environmental risk have been documented across the region and th…