Brouhaha over Iran war costs to US taxpayers
External analysts and Iran’s foreign minister have challenged the Pentagon’s US$25 billion estimate for the cost of the war in Iran, accusing the US government of misleading the public regarding the financial burden on American taxpayers.
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