People attend a rally on April 25 near the wreckage of US aircraft destroyed in Isfahan after the US terrorist forces’ failed operation in the central Iranian province weeks earlier.
Press TV – May 1, 2026
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the Pentagon is lying about the financial toll of the war on Iran, noting that the aggression has directly cost the United States $100 billion so far—four times the official estimate.
“The Pentagon is lying. Netanyahu’s gamble has directly cost America $100b so far, four times what is claimed,” Araghchi wrote on X Friday.
“Indirect costs for U.S. taxpayers are FAR higher. Monthly bill for each American household is $500 and rising fast,” he added.
“Israel First always means America Last,” he said, referring to the Israeli role in dragging the US into a war of aggression against the Iranian nation.
His comments come as the Pentagon’s $25 billion cost estimate faces mounting scrutiny from multiple quarters.
According to a CNN report citing three unnamed sources familiar with internal assessments, the figure presented by a senior Pentagon official to lawmakers on Wednesday significantly underestimates the true financial burden.
The sources revealed that the $25 billion figure excludes extensive damage inflicted on US military bases across the region during Iran’s defensive strikes.
When reconstruction and replacement of destroyed assets are factored in, one source noted, the cost likely ranges between $40 billion and $50 billion.
Pentagon’s $25 billion claim masks true cost of war on Iran as US losses mount: Sources https://t.co/r5vcm3o5ao
— Press TV (@PressTV) April 30, 2026
Academic experts paint an even grimmer picture. Professor Linda Bilmes, a public policy expert at the Harvard Kennedy School, projects the Iran war could ultimately cost US taxpayers $1 trillion.
“I am certain we will reach $1 trillion for the Iran war,” Bilmes said in an interview, estimating short-term costs at around $2 billion per day during the 40 days of the war.
Bilmes argued the Pentagon’s accounting methods mask the true expense, as figures are based on historical inventory values rather than current replacement costs—which are typically far higher.
Long-term expenses include reconstruction of damaged facilities, replenishing military inventory, rebuilding bases in the Persian Gulf, and potential lifetime disability benefits for roughly 55,000 deployed troops exposed to Iran’s retaliatory attacks.
Meanwhile, an online tracker monitoring the war’s cost to American taxpayers shows the figure has reached $67 billion.
Veteran Senator Bernie Sanders issued a warning Wednesday, criticizing the Trump administration for funneling massive public funds into what he called a pointless war instead of addressing domestic needs.
“War in Iraq: $2.1 trillion. War in Afghanistan: $2.3 trillion. Projected cost of the war in Iran: $1 trillion. Somehow, there is always money for war, but never enough money for housing, education or the needs of working people. We must and will change our national priorities,” Sanders wrote on X.
Khanna: How much did it cost American taxpayers, in terms of the strike on the Iranian school where kids were killed, in terms of the missiles we used?
Hegseth: That unfortunate situation remains under investigation. I wouldn’t tie a cost to that. pic.twitter.com/Lv1PbSdUOQ
— Press TV (@PressTV) April 30, 2026
The criminal US-Israeli aggression against Iran began on February 28 with airstrikes that assassinated senior Iranian officials and commanders and targeted the country’s infrastructure, including economic facilities. Over 3,300 Iranians have lost their lives in the aggression, according to the latest data.
Iranian armed forces responded with daily missile and drone operations targeting locations in Israeli-occupied territories and US military bases across the region.
Iran also closed the Strait of Hormuz to ships belonging to the US and its allies that participated in or supported the aggression, triggering a significant spike in oil prices.
A Pakistan-brokered temporary ceasefire took effect on April 8, forty days into the war. Negotiations in Islamabad subsequently stalled amid Washington’s excessive demands and unreasonable positions.
Tehran says the illegal US blockade on Iran’s ports should be lifted before the next stage of talks for ending the war begins. Iran has also asserted it has no intention of reopening the Strait of Hormuz as long as the blockade remains in place.
Meanwhile, the US blockade of Iranian ports has failed to achieve its stated aim of cutting off Iran’s oil revenues.
NEW LIES FOR OLD
The great depression in the 19303
saw people starve to death in the UK and USA
but no where had it worse than Germany
film exists of people lying dead in the street
The banks with held all moneys
they always rip in every penny before a major way
to loan out at interest
this technically is known as ” Clawback funds”
Adolf Hitler seized power put the Rothschilds in prison for theft
and gave the money back to the people.
he gave them security prosperity and national pride
Rothschild brought the countries controlled by the jew bankers
to go to war to get Germany back under control
The cause of the war had nothing to do with poland as claimed
Rothschild owns all UK newspapers and the BBC
Most people swallowed the lies, and many still do about the holocaust etc
Rothschild wants the white anglo saxon people eliminated
this is behind the jews attack through immigration the covid jab
cancer causing additives put into injections and drinking water
The great depression was a test run for what is to come
wait for it, the money changers in the temple
are going for it bigtime.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
TERRIBLE CRIMINAL CAUGHT
A car passenger was fined £100 for shouting “go on ladies” at female running group running past
Story by James Connolly • 11h
passenger was slapped with a £100 fine after shouting “Go on ladies, get running” at a group of female joggers.
The shocked runners had just been approached by a police officer discussing street safety when a car sped past, blaring its horn as one man shouted from the window.
Bodycam footage shows the aftermath, with the officer immediately racing after the vehicle before stopping it and confronting the passenger, who was later cautioned and fined.
In the clip released by West Yorkshire Police, the cop can be seen dealing with the man – although the shouted comment cannot be heard on the footage.
Dave Robertshaw, the leader of the running club, said: “It was unreal for it to happen in that moment when a police officer happened to be talking to us.”
The heroic police officer, said the man actually shouted ” go on ladies ”
we had to nail him after that
The passenger was issued with a fixed penalty notice after breaching a Public Space Protection Order, with police warning the shout could be allied to a form of sexual harassment.
the backlash aginst jews is growing here in the USA
the lavon affair
the USS liberty
the deaths of the kennedies
9.11
anger is building when nutenyahu said ” palestine today tomorrow america”
it was not a joke as claimed
the people are demanding we cut israel loose
maybe you in the UK can do like wise ?
The Pentagon says the man-child Trump will withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany after Merz said Iran had humiliated the US. Now he threatens to withdraw troops from Italy and Spain for refusing help to clear the Strait of Hormuz. It turns out there are about 35,000 US troops in Germany so maybe it’s more about saving money, suggesting the US is short of funds as the world finds ways to counter Trump’s money-grubbing tariffs and sanctions, which are at root unfair competition tactics from a bigger economy, but which look like they’ll cost the US dollar its reserve currency status.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-threatens-withdraw-troops-italy-104333369.html
While the US spends money it doesn’t have on war by taking it from social programs that need it, the swarms of thieves which began looting shops en mass have moved into gated communities and even residential areas of the better-off working classes and clearing out their homes. Not only was this predictable, it was predicted. The police are too busy to stop it, fighting their own job losses as more money goes to weapons and warfare which fund the welfare cheques for the very rich.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUnVA63M37c
We knew Trump was a loud-mouthed New Yorker. We knew Trump was associated with Epstein and Ghislaine. We knew Trump used his pardon prerogatives to release height profile, dangerous, criminal Jews. We knew Trump abandoned the January 6 protesters. We knew Trump was a reality show TV actor.* We knew Trump was being blackmailed (they all have been these days, at least the uncooperative ones). We knew Trump was a Democrat, etc.
What we did not know however is Trump is a WALL-OF-TEXT guy, he doesn’t use paragraphs!! I’m not reading that drivel, Mr. President
THANK YOU, HAVE A NICE DAY!!
* Interesting research subject is the correlation between actors winning elections (Trump, Reagan…) and the 19th amendment
lies proliferate in the UK too
so much from the epstein spy files have ben D noticed for the UK
What do the Epstein files say about Lord Peter Mandelson?
Feb 8, 2026Lord Peter Mandelson’s political career appears to be over after fresh releases from the Epstein files revealed the depth of his friendship with the paedophile financier., photos of him wearing nappies have been redacted, and have pics with him and young boys
WHY ?
Sky News
The war that Iran is fighting is not against the US and Israel, who are puppet agents of the international banking Khazarian Mafia (KM), who stole Palestine forming Israel to protect a 1933 oil spigot, a 1,000 mile oil pipeline from Iraq to the port of Haifa. Iran’s war is ultimately against the Satanist money changers who pull the US and Israel puppet strings and is wrecking their economy.
The late Stephen Mitford Goodson, a local South African banker and historian, was an outspoken critic of excessive usury and its harmful effects, which according to https://stateofthenation.co/?p=212387 may have contributed to his untimely death on 4 Aug. 2018 at age 70 by their hands. His excellent book, A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind (2014) has this to say:
Goodson’s explanation helps to place into perspective why Iran was in the destructive crosshairs of the KM. It is not about the deceptive false arguments of a wicked regime, which they are not. It is about the theft of a nation’s mineral rights that belong to the people. Deception, manipulation and theft are their methods for profitability.
Trump’s attack on Venezuela, murder of ship crews and passengers on the high seas, and kidnap of its President Maduro was a vindictive act to steal the mineral rights belonging to the Venezuelan people. The KM profiteers care not for the people. Those who stand in the way of their profitability or expose their methods of profitability are dealt with severely.
For example, Marine General Smedley D. Butler illustrates the enormous profits earned from war during the Wilson administration in his book, War Is a Racket.
Their murder of 168 innocent Iranian school girls along with their parents and teachers, consider news reporters, emergency civil defence workers, ambulances, medical workers, medical clinics, doctor offices and hospitals, apartment complexes as military targets, which breaks all laws of human decency, even internationally agreed upon limits. This is Bolshevist business as usual.
The current US administration has turned Bolshevist. Both war criminals Netanyahu and Ben Gvir still need to be brought to justice, indicted by the International Criminal Court.
https://www.geopolitika.ru/en/article/dawn-new-order-how-nations-dignity-challenged-empires-hegemony | 1 May 2026 concludes with:
Iran remains in the KM’s crosshairs for requiring the Petrol-Yuan over the Petrol-Dollar for its oil payments. Israel is relocating their annual gay pride event from Tel Aviv to the Negev Desert, which is an abomination before G-d.
Will Iran be a key element in bringing the Epstein Baby Eaters to a final conclusion?
LET TRUMP +BIDEN + PNAC JEWS PAY
PAY PAY PAY PAY PAY BPAY PAY PAY
Same game different decade.
Need to get rid of government and it’s creations: the corporations.
Basically the whole system is built on making people dependent and asset stripping them.
Also called “the business cycle”.
They made people dependent by severing their land rights.
Here in America the civil war and financial systems were used to bankrupt families during the industrial “revolution” , herd them into cities and EXTRACT their labor.
There is a reason that the system we have now is LESS FREE than a medieval free laboror would be.
(that laborer could spend 16 weeks of labor a year to sustain his family..today 2 parents working 60 hour weeks and fewer kids)
It is why the system have to keep screaming about “our freedoms” “our democracy”
what a f*ckin joke.
IF YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO GROW YOUR OWN FOOD ON YOUR OWN LAND AND ARE LARGELY INDEPENDENT AND SELF SUSTAINING, THE CAPITALIST CLASS CANNOT GET YOU TO ENTER THEIR CRAPPY EXPLOITATION SYSTEM.
The medieval laborer did not have actual land and he was still better off than the average american.
Ask yourself why.