{"id":805995,"date":"2026-08-07T18:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805995\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:40:08","slug":"the-cost-of-the-iran-war-is-mounting-heres-the-latest-tally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805995\/","title":{"rendered":"The cost of the Iran war is mounting. Here\u2019s the latest tally."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PN2OFTZZWVAPDGPVLWCJPQG2EM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">As the U.S. approaches six months of war with Iran, the costs to taxpayers and consumers continue to grow, beyond what has yet been fully quantified.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"L4LDCRV6KVFY3PWG63X2PICXE4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Lawmakers are wrangling over a plan to pay the bill. Consumers face bills of their own, including gas prices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/07\/25\/iran-war-tariffs-raise-new-risks-resilient-us-economy\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/07\/25\/iran-war-tariffs-raise-new-risks-resilient-us-economy\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">driven up<\/a> by supply disruptions during the war. And people around the world face shortages and higher prices, some connected to Iran\u2019s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping \u2014 as U.S. allies press for a deal to open it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the U.S. approaches six months of war with Iran, the costs to taxpayers and consumers continue to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-805995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}