The amount is up by more than four billion compared to the estimate advanced two weeks ago by the Pentagon. The Pentagon reassessed the cost of the war in Iran to nearly 29 billion dollars (25 billion euros), as announced by its financial chief during a new parliamentary hearing on Tuesday, in the presence of the US Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth.
This amount is higher by nearly four billion compared to the estimate given two weeks earlier during a previous face-to-face with American lawmakers, at the first hearing with the Pentagon chief since the start of the war at the end of February.
“In the past, it was 25 billion dollars. But the military leadership and the financial controller are constantly reviewing the estimates and we now believe it’s closer to 29 billion,” explained financial chief Jules Hurst, present with Pete Hegseth and the chief of staff of the US army, General Dan Caine.
In recent weeks, some lawmakers have felt that the figures provided by the government were underestimated. “There has been a constant lack of transparency since the beginning of this war,” lamented Democratic lawmaker Rosa DeLauro during Pete Hegseth’s hearing. “The ultimate goal is poorly defined, if not nonexistent,” she added, seeking clarification from the Defense Secretary.
A fragile ceasefire
The United States and Israel launched a major offensive against Tehran on February 28. A ceasefire has been in place for over a month, but Donald Trump described it as being “on life support” on Monday, and negotiations between Washington and Tehran to permanently end the war in the Middle East continent are ongoing.
The Iranian regime rejected on Tuesday the idea of amending its proposals to permanently end the war in the Middle East, after President Donald Trump deemed the document received from Tehran as “good for the trash can.” Over a month after the establishment of a fragile truce in a war that has claimed thousands of lives and continues to disrupt the global economy, the diplomatic process, mediated by Pakistan, appears to be stalling.
