# United States and Israel are bombing Iran {for current/ongoing events, past/future have specific threads}

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**Created:** [February 28, 2026, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-states-and-israel-are-bombing-iran-for-current-ongoing-events-past-future-have-specific-threads/1028071 "2026-02-28T07:56:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-states-and-israel-are-bombing-iran-for-current-ongoing-events-past-future-have-specific-threads/1028071/1909 "2026-10-29T03:29:15Z")

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[Cost of the vanity war to the US is now **forty-seven _billion_ dollars**.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/iran-live-updates-houthis-claim-070717462.html)

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> The U.S. military now estimates that through mid-October, the war with Iran has cost $47 billion dollars, according to a Pentagon document reviewed by ABC News.
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> The new figure is a $3.5 billion increase from an earlier estimate of $43.6 billion through mid-September that was also compiled by Pentagon. In mid-July, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had told Congress that the war had cost $37.5 billion through that time period.
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> Close to $29 billion worth of munitions have been expended by the U.S. since the start of the war, according to the document.
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> The costs of operations is estimated to total $11.9 billion, according to the document.
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> The document does not contain a cost estimate for the damage that Iranian attacks have caused at large U.S. military bases in the region, but it does say that equipment losses, including U.S. military aircraft, totals $6 billion.
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> The Trump administration does not include the cost of replacing the damage to the bases because it has yet to determine whether those bases will need to be rebuilt.

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