The US has spent approximately $25 billion so far on the Iran war, a senior Pentagon official told lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
Pentagon acting comptroller Jules Hurst made the comments during a hearing with the House Armed Services Committee (HASC). The joint US-Israeli war on Iran, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, commenced on Feb. 28.
“Most of that is in munitions… A part of that’s obviously O&M [Operations and Maintenance] and equipment replacement,” Hurst said during the hearing to discuss the Pentagon’s budget request for fiscal year 2027.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine and Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth were also present.
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Speaking at a televised Cabinet meeting on March 26, the US secretary of defense boasted of US military successes against Iran in the ongoing war. “Never in recorded history has a nation’s military been so quickly and so effectively neutralised,” he said, seated next to US President Donald Trump.
ReplyDeleteThe very next day, Iran fired missiles and drones that struck a US base in Saudi Arabia, wounding several US soldiers and destroying a radar surveillance plane that cost $700m.