US Iran war costs hit $38 billion and climbing, CBO says
Congressional Budget Office warns monthly costs could reach $3 billion as conflict continues with no end in sight.
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Iran hunts US drones to crack surveillance secrets
Tehran is deliberately targeting American naval drones in the Strait of Hormuz to expose how US forces operate and how to evade detection.
10 cards 2mCodePink ejected from hearing on foreign influence operations
Activists wearing pro-Iran and pro-Cuba shirts were removed from a House hearing examining foreign funding of U.S. protest groups.
16 cards 3mVance says Iran war is nearing a new phase
JD Vance says the Iran conflict has moved from major strikes to containment, with Hormuz still under pressure.
6 cards 1m 30sIran war drains US missiles and money
A CBO report puts the Iran war’s US cost at $38bn, with missile stocks strained and inflation pushed higher.
8 cards 1m 40s 5Massie tries to impeach Hegseth
A Republican critic of Trump is forcing a House fight over Pete Hegseth’s handling of Iran, Venezuela, and Pentagon dissent.
8 cards 1m 40s 6Patel denies firing the FBI's Iran experts
An FBI director keeps rejecting reports that his purge gutted the bureau's Iran unit weeks before a war.
6 cards 1m 20sSeven months in, the Iran war has no exit
A war Trump said would take five weeks is strangling two of the world's busiest shipping lanes, and neither side will blink.
16 cards 3m 5The $38 billion bill for the Iran war
A nonpartisan budget office just put a number on the Iran war, and the number is only the start.
11 cards 2mWashington's Iran exit runs through Delhi
The war the U.S. started may only end if Russia, China, and India broker the terms.
18 cards 4mIran war grinds on as talks stall
Trump cracks the door open to a deal while a tanker is hit in Hormuz and the Pentagon counts the cost.
7 cards 1m 30sWhat the Iran war cost U.S. forces
The Pentagon's first watchdog report puts numbers on the damage Iranian strikes did to American bases, aircraft and embassies.
6 cards 1m 40sIran's proxies are squeezing the world's oil chokepoints
Six months into the war, a drone strike on a Saudi pipeline and a Houthi blockade have pushed Brent crude to $108.
9 cards 2mSaudi Arabia's backup oil route just went dark
A drone strike shut the pipeline that was keeping crude flowing around the Strait of Hormuz, and Brent jumped past $106.
8 cards 2mOil hits a four-month high as Hormuz talks collapse
Postponed strait talks, a wrecked Saudi pipeline and Houthi gains at Bab el-Mandeb are squeezing the world's oil routes at once.
20 cards 4mUp First: AI alarms, stalled Iran talks
NPR's Sept. 14 rundown lines up three stories: warnings about AI, a Gulf diplomatic delay, and Republican midterm math.
6 cards 1m 20s 6Trump floats taking Iran's oil, Venezuela style
Trump says the U.S. could stay in Iran and keep the oil, while Gulf talks on the Strait of Hormuz slip again.
6 cards 1m 30sFifty hours behind enemy lines in Iran
An F-15E weapons officer fell 70 mph with a shredded parachute, then hid in Iranian mountains for two days while America came to get him.
14 cards 3mBRICS tells the Middle East to cool it, with Iran signing on
Iran put its name to a call for restraint in New Delhi, alongside the countries its drones have been hitting.
6 cards 1m 40sA ship burns in the Strait of Hormuz
One dead, three hurt, and nobody will say who fired the projectile that hit a merchant vessel off Qeshm.
7 cards 1m 40s 5A ship burns in the Strait of Hormuz
A vessel hit by an unknown projectile, a blockade nobody slips past, and Iran saying talks are futile.
9 cards 2mAmerica is firing missiles faster than it can build them
Seven months into the war with Iran, the shelves are emptying and the factories cannot catch up.
11 cards 2mA tanker burns as Iran calls a meeting on Hormuz
An attack off Qeshm Island lands a day before Iran and Oman try to sell the region on who really controls the Strait of Hormuz.
6 cards 1m 40sRivals at one table: inside the Delhi Brics summit
India got Putin, Xi and Iran's president into one room, then watched them agree on almost nothing specific.
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