{"id":92138,"date":"2026-05-01T03:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/92138\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T03:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:08:12","slug":"cost-of-iran-war-equals-aid-for-more-than-87-million-people-u-n-aid-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/92138\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of Iran war equals aid for more than 87 million people, U.N. aid chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2013 The Pentagon&#8217;s spending on its war with Iran could cover the United Nation&#8217;s entire 2026 aid appeal and bring lifesaving support to more than 87 million people, its aid chief said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Defense says it has spent $25 billion so far on the conflict in the Middle East, while the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) sought $23 billion for this year&#8217;s aid appeal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know what we could do with 25 billion,&#8221; OCHA head Tom Fletcher said. &#8220;We have a direct comparison of what we can do with that money.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nairobi \u2013 The Pentagon&#8217;s spending on its war with Iran could cover the United Nation&#8217;s entire 2026 aid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2252,34,49,11148,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-92138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-aid","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-middle-east","11":"tag-u-n","12":"tag-u-s"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116497121503993135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}