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Resumption of hostilities against Iran may lead to new world war — Jeffrey Sachs

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Professor Jeffrey Sachs, an economist and Director at Columbia University's Center for Sustainable Development, advised that the United States should refrain from resuming military operations against Iran. He warned that such actions could lead to an uncontrolled escalation into a regional or world war, citing potential Iranian retaliation against vital infrastructure like oil fields and desalination plants.

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“The United States should not resume its military operation against Iran because the conflict may uncontrollably escalate into a world war, a renowned American economist and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University (New York), Professor Jeffrey Sachs said.”
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The claim that Professor Jeffrey Sachs warned against resuming military operations against Iran due to the risk of a world war is reported by TASS, citing Sachs's statement. This constitutes corroboration from an independent news source reporting the expert's warning.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sachs is a German surname, meaning "man from Saxony". Sachs is a common surname among Ashkenazi Jews from Saxony, in the United States sometimes adopted in the variant Zaks, supposedly in reference to…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachs
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jeffrey is a common English given name, and a variant form of the name Geoffrey (itself from a Middle French variant of Godfrey, Gottfried). It has been argued that the common derivation of Middle Fre…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_(given_name)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jeffrey David Sachs ( SAKS; born November 5, 1954) is an American economist and public policy analyst. He is a professor at Columbia University, at which he was formerly director of The Earth Institut…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs
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“If attacks on Iran resume, Tehran will "strike back, and strike back very hard and very rapidly."”
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The claim that Jeffrey Sachs stated that if attacks on Iran resume, Tehran will respond with a hard and rapid strike is directly reported by TASS, citing Sachs's statement. This is corroborated by the context of the evidence provided.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a major maritime choke point for world energy trade, has been largely blocked by Iran since 28 February 2026, when the United States and Israel launched …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Strait_of_Hormuz_crisis
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی [ʔæbˌbɒːs kijɒːɾostæˈmi] ; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker f…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_Kiarostami
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nouriel Roubini (born March 29, 1958) is an American economic consultant, economist, speaker, and writer. He is a professor emeritus since 2021 at the Stern School of Business of New York University. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouriel_Roubini
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“What we have all learned also since February 28, since the start of this war, is that the entire Gulf region is exposed to missile fire from Iran, as is Israel, in fact.”
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The claim that Jeffrey Sachs stated that the entire Gulf region and Israel are exposed to missile fire from Iran since February 28 is directly quoted and reported by TASS, citing Sachs's statement. This constitutes corroboration from an independent news source reporting the expert's warning.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a major maritime choke point for world energy trade, has been largely blocked by Iran since 28 February 2026, when the United States and Israel launched …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Strait_of_Hormuz_crisis
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jared Corey Kushner (born January 10, 1981) is an American businessman, investor, and government official. Through his marriage to Ivanka Trump, he is the son-in-law of the 45th and 47th president of …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In economics, shock therapy is a group of policies intended to be implemented simultaneously in order to liberalize an economy, including liberalization of all prices, privatization, trade liberalizat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_therapy_(economics)
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“We also have come to understand that the anti missile defenses are permeable, limited, even depleted in many areas.”
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The statement that anti-missile defenses are permeable, limited, or depleted is only found in the web search results attributed to Jeffrey Sachs's commentary, with no other independent sources corroborating this specific technical assessment.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jeffrey Sachs is one of the only good mainstream voices on these issues. Of course, he’s been forced out of the mainstream. But the All-In Podcast hosted him at their summit last year.
https://www.unz.com/aanglin/trump-retweets-jeffery-sachs-vid…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and public policy analyst. He is a professor at Columbia University, where he was formerly director of The Earth Institute, and is director of the Center f…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs
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web search NEUTRAL — Professor Jeffrey Sachs is the President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columb...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS-3QssVPeg
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“But we know that the desalination plants in the Gulf region, the oil and the gas fields, the port facilities, are not protected systematically and comprehensively against Iranian attacks, and Iran would completely, totally, understandably respond to what Trump has repeatedly threatened, which is the destruction of Iran.”
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The claim regarding the lack of systematic protection for critical infrastructure (desalination plants, oil/gas fields, port facilities) and Iran's expected response to threats of destruction is reported by TASS, citing Sachs. This is corroborated by the context provided in the evidence set.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a major maritime choke point for world energy trade, has been largely blocked by Iran since 28 February 2026, when the United States and Israel launched …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Strait_of_Hormuz_crisis
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party with an active paramilitary wing that has been banned by the Lebanese government since March 2026, amid Israel's war on Lebanon. Hezbollah's param…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The price of oil, or the oil price, generally refers to the spot price of a barrel (42 U.S. gallons; 159 liters) of benchmark crude oil—a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil such as We…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_of_oil
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