{"id":34501,"date":"2026-05-01T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=34501"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:00:24","slug":"brouhaha-over-iran-war-costs-to-us-taxpayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=34501","title":{"rendered":"Brouhaha over Iran war costs to US taxpayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jules_W._Hurst_III-e1777648488409.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p>Outside analysts\u2019 estimates of the total cost to American taxpayers of President Donald Trump\u2019s Iran war have\u00a0varied widely, but most put the number higher than the US$25 billion offered by the Pentagon. Iran\u2019s foreign minister on Friday joined the analysts crying foul when he accused the\u00a0Pentagon\u00a0of deliberately misleading the American public with its formal estimate [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2026\/05\/brouhaha-over-iran-war-costs-to-us-taxpayers\/\">Brouhaha over Iran war costs to US taxpayers<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/\">Asia Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside analysts\u2019 estimates of the total cost to American taxpayers of President Donald Trump\u2019s Iran war have\u00a0varied widely, but most put the number higher than the US$25 billion offered by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-without-rubric"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}