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  • The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the Iran war has cost the Pentagon $38.1 billion through Aug. 1 and could cost another $2 billion to $3 billion monthly.
  • The U.S. has used as much as two-thirds of its missile defense interceptors since June 2025; replenishing them could take at least five years.
  • The war is projected to keep weighing on inflation, adding 0.5 percentage points to inflation metrics by early 2027 as energy costs spread through the economy, the CBO said.

Iran war has cost on average $246 million per day in its first five months, CBO finds

The Congressional Budget Office calculated the Defense Department's Iran war cost through Aug. 1 at $38.1 billion.
www.cnbc.com
 

Pentagon Inspector General Report on Operation Epic Fury​

The following is the Defense Department Office of Inspector General report to Congress on Operation Epic Fury, published Sept. 14, 2026.

This is the first report on OEF. This report fulfills a quarterly reporting responsibility pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended. This report covers the period through June 30, 2026.

From the Report​

Introduction

On February 28, 2026, U.S. forces launched Operation Epic Fury (OEF) as a U.S.-Israeli partnered campaign to “destroy Iran’s ability to project military power” in the region by striking Iranian nuclear, missile, naval, and regime security targets. According to State, Iran poses the greatest threat to the United States from the Middle East, both directly, in the form of its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities, and indirectly, in its funding of terror proxies. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that for decades, Iran has waged an ongoing conflict with the United States that has included lethal attacks against U.S. forces in the Middle East, threats and attacks against regional countries, and support to terrorist proxy organizations. After U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites in June 2025, Iran expanded its ballistic missile production to protect its nuclear weapons development program.

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yer heros for standing up to the US (and their peoples)

Iran: Architects of Crimes Against Humanity
Amnesty International

The report, Architects of Atrocities: State Machinery Orchestrating Crimes Against Humanity in Iran’s 2022 Woman Life Freedom Uprising –more than 1,000 pages long – details how Iranian authorities committed the crimes against humanity of murder, torture, enforced disappearance, imprisonment, rape and persecution on political, gender, ethnic and religious grounds in order to crush the uprising. It also documents deadly protest repression operations and command structures.

(A few victim photos)
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The report unveils how crimes against humanity in Iran are sustained by an architecture of impunity built into the country’s constitutional, legislative, political and judicial frameworks.

Such defenders of democracy.
 

Iran says hackers launched a cyberattack on a massive oil tanker bound for Galveston​

GALVESTON, Texas — The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating a cyberattack targeting an oil supertanker that was traveling through the Gulf toward Galveston last month.

A specialized team of Coast Guard and FBI officials boarded the VL Prosperity in the Gulf on Aug. 21 after authorities learned that the South Korean-managed vessel’s computer network had been compromised, Coast Guard officials said.

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Strait of Hormuz Brief: 16 September, 2026

Traffic sustained at relatively elevated levels despite heightened Gulf violence. At least 97 non-Iranian-linked, defined by ownership, trade exposure or sanctions status, transits were tracked between 7 and 13 September, compared to 83 between 31 August and 6 September. These figures...
www.lloydslistintelligence.com
 

Looks like Iran may be upping their game. If they can do this what else are they capable of?

Authorities Investigating Cyber Breaches Aboard Two U.S.-Bound Ships

US Coast Guard and FBI personnel boarded two commercial vessels bound for the United States in the Gulf of Mexico last month after indications that hackers had broken into their computer networks, the agencies said on Thursday.
gcaptain.com
 
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Was it Iran or another bad actor.

Real of false flag by someone hoping we'd up our game in furtherance of a goal they may want to achieve?

 
Average around me

Gas 4.60 Diesel 6.60

Some places lower, some higher. Depends on brand and location.
 
Free to read

Iran Blockade Costs Are Draining America’s Global Military Power. As US President Donald Trump tries to force Iran into submission, a naval blockade is proving to be his tool of choice. But the operation is testing the limits of the American military, exhausting personnel and weakening Washington’s position elsewhere in the world. (Bloomberg free)
 
Fatrat said:
Yes, many years ago, the Shah was friendly with Israel, they also have American jets...
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Maybe there was some method to their madness, back then...

Imagine if Mossad had taken control of Iran's government (as they have, ours), around about 1985 or so. What they could be doing with the global oil market now...
 
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