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Counting the Cost: Anatomy of the US-Iran Peace Standoff

Counting the Cost: Anatomy of the US-Iran Peace Standoff

The sirens have fallen silent over Tehran and Tel Aviv, replaced by the hushed, tense atmosphere of the Islamabad Serena Hotel. But the silence is deceptive. It is the silence of a planet holding its breath as the true price of Operation Epic Fury is finally tallied on the ledger of human suffering and economic ruin.

Counting the Cost of Epic Fury: the US-Iran Impasse

Counting the Cost of Epic Fury: the US-Iran Impasse

The silence in the Strait of Hormuz is the most expensive quiet in history. With Brent Crude hovering near $120 a barrel, the “success” of Operation Epic Fury is being debated not in military war rooms, but in the power-starved manufacturing hubs of Europe, or the Kigali markets. What began on February 28 as a joint U.S.-Israeli decapitation strike has devolved into a structural crisis that has pit allies against each other and turned the 2026 U.S. Mid-terms into a referendum on global stability.

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