2026-04-16
8 分钟NPR.
This is The Indicator from Planet Money.
I'm Patti Hirsch.
And I'm Waylon Wong.
The war with Iran has been devastating for Iran and the Iranian people.
But it's not just Iran that's been affected.
The fallout from the war has hammered the global economy,
and it 's becoming potentially ruinous for all of Iran's neighbors in the Persian Gulf.
Oil and gas revenues are the most obvious part of this story, of course.
They account for more than 90% of government income in Iraq and anywhere between 40 and 90% of government revenues
in the Gulf Cooperation Council, or GCC, countries.
I'm going to list them by physical size now, Willian, if you don't mind.
Saudi Arabia, Oman, and the UAE, those are the big ones.
And Kuwait, Qatar, and tiny but still economically very powerful, Bahrain.
I like that geography lesson.
It was helpful.
They have all had their energy exports choked off by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
But the war has affected more than just oil and gas.
And it 's the damage to non-energy sectors,
tourism, real estate, finance, that represents a real long-term threat to these economies.