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Iran War Is Putting Gulf’s Foreign Workers at Risk
More than two dozen foreign workers have been killed as missile and drone strikes disrupt travel and raise costs across the Gulf, officials said.
- On Monday, three Indian workers were moderately injured in the United Arab Emirates after an Iranian drone sparked a fire at an oil facility, marking the first attack since a fragile ceasefire began in early April.
- Since the United States and Israel went to war with Iran in February, missile and drone strikes have killed at least 24 foreign workers across the Gulf, exposing the vulnerability of laborers building the region's oil-fueled economies.
- Shariful Islam Hasan of the Bangladeshi development organization BRAC noted workers perform the "most dirty, dangerous and difficult" jobs; 35-year-old Mohammad Abdullah Al Mamun died after a missile struck his camp on March 8.
- Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has spiked goods prices, threatening remittances that account for up to 10% of Nepal's GDP; workers like Egyptian taxi driver Ahmed al-Aliyli have been unable to send money home.
- Millions of foreign workers now face a sharp dilemma: remain in the Middle East where wages are higher, or return to impoverished home nations where prices have soared, as economists warn of prolonged regional instability.
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Gulf migrant workers face tough choices amid Mideast war
The US and Israel's war on Iran is also hitting migrant workers who live in the Gulf region, often accepting harsh controls and little in the way of rights in return for the kind of pay they'd never see back home. Now though, they have a choice - stay and risk their lives in an active war zone, or return home - likely to poorer nations struggling with the fallout from that same war as living costs spiral and an energy crisis endures, making for …
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