The Pentagon on Tuesday said its cost estimate for the US’s Iran war had risen to $29bn, up $4bn in two weeks, as Donald Trump signalled his readiness to restart his bombing campaign unless Tehran agreed a deal.
A senior Pentagon official told US legislators that the war’s new price tag accounted for “updated repair and replacement of equipment costs” and operational costs to keep forces in the conflict zone.
“We think it’s closer to $29bn,” Jay Hurst, the defence department’s acting comptroller, testified at a congressional hearing where lawmakers pressed the administration for answers on the increasingly unpopular war.
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