Weapon shortfalls, 'hundreds' of buildings and aircraft damaged, $33.4 billion spent: the U.S. government tallies costs of the Iran war

Iranian strikes have damaged and destroyed "hundreds of buildings and structures" at U.S. bases in the Middle East, as well as "dozens" of U.S. aircraft as of the end of June, according to a government report. The Iran war cost an estimated $33.4 billion as of June 29, according to the U.S. Department of Defense, which released a Lead Inspector General report to Congress on the Iran war Monday tracking the conflict up to end-June. That includes $184 million in physical damage to U.S. diplomatic facilities in four countries—Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—from Iranian strikes, it said. The expenditure of U.S.