Iran War and the Coming “Super Migration Crisis”: Is Europe Sleepwalking Again?
When the US and Israel launched military strikes against Iran on February 28, 2026, European leaders offered cautious statements calling for restraint . But beneath the diplomatic language, a more urgent fear has taken hold in Brussels, Berlin, and other European capitals : that the Iran war migration crisis could dwarf every refugee wave the continent has faced in modern history. With Iran's population of 90 million, even partial destabilization threatens displacement on a scale that would overwhelm Europe's already fragile asylum systems . The European Union Agency for Asylum warned before the war began that "even partial destabilisation [of Iran] could generate refugee movements of an unprecedented magnitude" . That warning now haunts European policymakers who remember how the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis reshaped the continent's politics, fueling far-right movements from Germany to France . This time, the stakes are exponentially higher. Is Europe S...