{"id":39690,"date":"2026-04-30T09:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/?p=39690"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:04:27","slug":"pentagon-says-us-war-with-iran-has-cost-25-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/39690\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Says US War with Iran Has Cost $25 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jules Hurst, a senior financial official at the Pentagon, said yesterday that the United States\u2019 war against Iran has so far cost $25 billion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He told lawmakers in the House Armed Services Committee that a large portion of the money was spent on munitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hurst did not specify whether the figure includes projected costs for rebuilding and repairing military base infrastructure in the Middle East that was damaged during the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The $25 billion figure is equivalent to NASA\u2019s entire annual budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, a source told Reuters that the United States estimated the first six days of the war alone cost at least $11.3 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told lawmakers that the $25 billion cost is justified given the United States\u2019 goal of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In strongly worded remarks, he defended the war overall, saying it has not reached a deadlock. Hegseth also called Democratic lawmakers \u201cincompetent\u201d for criticizing the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only six months remain until the US midterm elections, and Democrats are currently performing well in public opinion polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jules Hurst, a senior financial official at the Pentagon, said yesterday that the United States\u2019 war against Iran has so far cost $25 billion. He told lawmakers in the House Armed Services Committee that a large portion of the money was spent on munitions. Hurst did not specify whether the figure includes projected costs for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[8803,8804,8725,8806,8216,8805,8244,7977,8039,8145,8235,8807,7724,2335,5719,5706],"class_list":["post-39690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-billion","tag-cost","tag-democratic","tag-hegseth-2","tag-infrastructure-2","tag-jules-hurst","tag-middle-east-2","tag-nasa","tag-nuclear","tag-pentagon","tag-united-states-2","tag-us-defense-secretary","tag-war","tag-deeyar","tag-deeyar-television","tag-deeyar-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39698,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39690\/revisions\/39698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}