IT’s good news that most experts don’t think Iran and Saudi Arabia will go to war in a big way against each other. They will just carry out proxy wars–hurt each other by hitting at third countries that are close to the other or facilities in a third country that are important to the other.

This means the damage to the government’s policy to export Philippine labor would not be too great. And even more important the suffering of our OFWs in the Middle East, especially the 1.5 to 2 million who are in Saudi Arabia and the other Arab countries, will not be too widespread.

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