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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Joe Sommerlad

Cost of Trump’s Iran war is now estimated to be $500 million a day

As President Donald Trump threatens a major escalation in his war against Iran, analysts have placed the cost of the conflict at approximately $500 million per day, with as much as $31 billion spent on the five weeks of bombing seen so far.

In his latest apocalyptic warning to Tehran ahead of the 8 p.m. ET Tuesday deadline he has set for the regime to agree to a ceasefire, the president declared that “a whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again” unless a deal is reached, promising to decimate the country’s civilian infrastructure.

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