Anonymous24 days ago
As Iran's retaliatory missile and drone strikes rain down on Gulf states following the U.S.-Israeli military operation against Iran that began February 28, 2026, virtually all civilian deaths recorded across the Gulf Cooperation Council nations have been migrant workers from South and Southeast Asia. The pattern exposes a structural vulnerability decades in the making: the very workforce that built the Gulf's gleaming cities — bound by restrictive sponsorship systems, housed in overcrowded quarters, and unable to evacuate — is now absorbing the human cost of a war it had no part in choosing.