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Friday, May 1, 2026
Hidden costs of US Iran war push total far beyond $25bn Pentagon claim
from al Mayadeen English
The Pentagon’s declared $25 billion cost of the war on Iran is likely a significant understatement of the war's true financial burden, Bloomberg reported, citing analysts. Senior US defense officials disclosed the figure during testimony at a contentious congressional hearing on Wednesday, outlining the total cost incurred so far.
Calculations by Bloomberg, based on Pentagon data, suggest that the cost of certain munitions, destroyed equipment, and operational expenses alone amounts to around $14 billion. This includes $8 billion for munitions, $5 billion to replace lost aircraft and damaged equipment, and approximately $1 billion in operational costs for deploying two aircraft carriers and 16 destroyers over 39 days of near-continuous strikes.
The estimate does not account for the cost of repairing damaged facilities across the region, such as the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain, which has been repeatedly targeted in Iranian attacks. It also excludes the operational costs of all ships and aircraft involved in the military buildup prior to February 28, as well as those currently engaged in the ongoing blockade...
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31 million and counting: 'Janfada' campaign unites resilient Iranian nation against enemy
(Ready yourself for the press to claim this is evidence of some kind of fundamentalist fervor propaganda or an AI fabrication designed to give Americans pause during negotiations. While either or both of those things can be at least partially true the reality is, it isn't hard to get people to stand up and defend their nation when they are being illegally attacked for no reason by a genocidal freak (Netanyahu) and his nut-job pedophile flunkie sidekick (TrumpyBear) For the record I believe every word of it regardless of why Iranians sign up the point is this is and will be a quagmire unlike any we have engaged in in the past. You will never cow these people with shock and awe, all you will do is make more fighters, more resistance, more hardliners willing to do whatever it takes, fight whatever kind of war it takes to drive us out of their nation. It is stupid for Fox News to platform people like the Shah's son. The people of Iran will never go back to living under another Shah, him or anyone else (MEK?) and that's a fact. They are much more like the people of Afghanistan than the people of Iran. So yes, trust these numbers. No matter how they got there, they are there... and we shouldn't be if indeed we love the troops.)
from PressTV
Arash Sadeghi signed up late in the evening a few weeks ago for the nationwide campaign to defend the country, hunched over his laptop in his family apartment in Tehran.
The 21-year-old had been following the news all day, watching messages from friends and acquaintances pour in one after another.
By the time he reached the registration page for the "Sacrifice for Iran" (Janfada-e-Iran) campaign, he already knew what he had to do.
“There was no need to discuss it or think about it or seek anyone’s advice,” he told the Press TV website. “Everyone around me had already done it, and it was the right thing to do.”
He typed in his details and pressed submit. His phone kept lighting up with notifications – classmates from university, cousins from the city of Karaj, neighbors his age – all confirming that they, too, had joined the massively popular campaign.
“All my friends have enrolled for the campaign,” the fine arts student said, repeating it as he scrolled through his messages. “We are ready to give our lives for Iran if need arises.”
He said it plainly, almost as if describing a daily responsibility rather than a life-and-death choice. “Everyone I know sees it the same way. It’s not something we had to debate.”
Across the apartment, his mother asked if he had finished. Sadeghi nodded. His mother didn’t question it. According to Sadeghi, most parents in his neighbourhood already knew their sons and daughters were registering.
“It’s normal now,” he said in a freewheeling conversation with the Press TV website. “People talk about it like they talk about exams or work. It’s just something you do.”...
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