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Iran War Costs Hang Over G7 as Leaders Avoid Hard Talk in France

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Iran War Costs Hang Over G7 as Leaders Avoid Hard Talk in France

🌍 G7 — Leaders absorb the Iran war's bill but won't say it aloud in Cannes. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: MOU unsigned by key parties, Hormuz still mined, oil 30% above year-start — the G7 hosts recovery talks on a crisis not closed. No communiqué will name Israeli non-compliance or Iran's Hormuz leverage. That silence is policy: allies defer to Trump's timeline while their treasuries bleed. Italy and Germany — highest industrial energy exposure — are the ones paying the tab.

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