Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has called on the country’s agriculture ministry to use “all their capacity” to control prices amid the Middle East war.
“Our duty is to stand by the people with all our strength,” he says in a post on X.
A prolonged conflict will have far-reaching implications for regional geopolitics, sharpening the divisions among Gulf countries that are directly affected by the tensions.
Every day that passes without clarity on how and when the war will end introduces fresh intensity to the uncertainty roiling global markets and adds to the economic turmoil the world must bear because of it.