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16 HIS HOLINESS MIRZA MASROOR AHMAD now being given the impression that these attacks are directed against them. Economic Consequences and the Escalation of Conflict It is now plainly evident that this war has assumed a frightening dimension. Missiles are being launched from Iran, and in order to inter- cept them the Americans have installed defensive systems. However, analysts are now writing that if Iran launches a missile costing $50,000, the cost of destroying it with an intercepting missile amounts to several million dollars. Some analysts even claim that this is econom- ically costly for the United States. However, this remains merely an opinion. Such powers calcu- late everything carefully in advance and carry out thorough assessments. They would already have planned for all of this. I do not believe that such powers would willingly bear these losses; rather, they will recover this money from those Arab countries by claiming they are defending them. On the one hand, their oil fields are being shut down, inflation is rising, and oil production is