© Photo: Mc2 Mitchell Mason, U.S. Navy, Global Look Press
The New York Times, which reported the figures, citing three sources, notes that the amount does not include the cost of a military buildup in the region before the strikes.
Last week, the NYT wrote that the Pentagon reported to congressmen that the first week of the war with Tehran cost Washington about $6 billion. About $4 billion of that was spent on munitions, mostly interceptors to destroy Iranian missiles.
In the United States, opposition to the Trump administration’s handling of the Iran war is growing. The reason for this is not only (and not so much) the high costs of the operation, but also the unclear goals of the war and uncertainty about the time and conditions for its termination.
The U.S. Democratic Party is increasing pressure on Trump and the Republican Party he represents, seeing this as a path to victory in the midterm congressional elections this fall. In particular, the Democrats refused to vote for additional funds for the Pentagon to continue the war.
In this regard, American President Donald Trump is increasingly saying that the US has “already won this war. “The war with Iran will end soon because there’s virtually nothing else to target there. When I want it to end, it will end,” he claimed in one of his speeches.
At the same time, Iran has categorically stated that the only way to end the war is to recognize the republic’s legitimate rights to a “peaceful atom,” pay it reparations and provide international security guarantees.
