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US military spending on Iran war tops $47B, blowing past Pentagon estimate by 25%: report<\/p>\n
U.S. military spending in the Iran war<\/a> has surpassed $47 billion, exceeding the Pentagon\u2019s July estimate by more than 25%, according to internal Defense Department figures obtained by Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n Munitions replenishment accounted for the largest share at more than $29 billion, alongside more than $6 billion in equipment replacements, Reuters reported, citing its review of the data.<\/p>\n The estimates do not include the cost of repairing damage to U.S. facilities targeted by Iranian drone and missile barrages, according to the report.<\/p>\n 2 hours agoUS alerts Gulf allies to possible new round of intense fighting with Iran after midterms: report<\/p>\n The United States has warned several Gulf Arab allies to prepare for a potentially brief but intense military campaign against Iran following the U.S. midterm elections, according to The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n Citing sources, the outlet reported Tuesday that American and Israeli forces are laying the groundwork for a new round of strikes. <\/p>\n The planned campaign<\/a> is intended to apply decisive military pressure on Tehran to compel Iranian leaders to return to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n The warnings were conveyed through high-level diplomatic and military channels, the outlet said.<\/p>\n 2 hours ago\u2018Your lies are no good here\u2019: US envoy Waltz blasts Tehran at UN Security Council<\/p>\n U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz rebuked the Iranian<\/a> regime on Tuesday at a U.N. Security Council meeting on nonproliferation and Iran, declaring that \u201cthe United States and our partners will never let you obtain a nuclear weapon to terrorize the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Waltz also called out Tehran’s<\/a> domestic crackdown and accused the regime of having \u201cshamelessly massacred 40,000 of its own citizens\u201d while the world watched.<\/p>\n The U.S. ambassador turned the focus onto Tehran\u2019s regional aggression, charging that \u201cwhat you didn’t hear was the Iranian regime hitting hotels and restaurants and tourist sites and civilian neighborhoods, airports, civilian shipping across the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n Addressing the nuclear watchdog’s concerns, Waltz pointed out that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi had specifically demanded that Iran deliver \u201canswers, not speeches.\u201d<\/p>\n He also dismissed Tehran’s diplomatic posturing, advising its envoy that \u201cyour lies are no good here.\u201d<\/p>\n 3 hours agoYemeni forces claim 1,382 strikes against Houthis, nearly 440 fighters killed<\/p>\n The Yemeni Armed Forces said Tuesday that they carried out 1,382 precision strikes, neutralized approximately 440 Houthi commanders and fighters, and destroyed 146 military vehicles.<\/p>\n Under its “Dawn of Yemen” campaign, spokesperson Majed Abdullah Al-Nuzaili said its units in Taiz worked alongside the Popular Resistance, with air support, to repel Houthi counterattacks, secure strategic hilltops and expand territorial control.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, its forces operating along the Bab al-Mandab<\/a>, Dhobab, Al-Mudarabah, northern, northwestern and eastern Sana’a axes struck Houthi command centers, supply routes and weapons depots with artillery, armored units and drones, Al-Nuzaili said on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n 4 hours agoSaudi air defenses intercept Houthi ballistic missile targeting Taif amid wave of attacks<\/p>\n Saudi air defenses intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched toward Taif<\/a> by Houthi forces on Tuesday night, according to the official spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition.<\/p>\n The coalition earlier neutralized multiple threats launched by the militia, including two ballistic missiles fired toward Riyadh and four attack drones targeting the kingdom\u2019s southern region, coalition spokesman Col. Turki Al-Malki said on X.<\/a><\/p>\n 4 hours agoBessent says Treasury is tracking, freezing Iranian regime’s crypto assets<\/p>\n Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that Washington is tracking and freezing the Iranian regime’s cryptocurrency assets as it moves funds.<\/p>\n \u201cThey thought it was a workaround,\u201d Bessent told Iran International<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bessent also said the funds \u201cbelong to the Iranian<\/a> people, not the corrupt regime,\u201d adding that the Treasury was tracing money \u201cwhether it is crypto, whether it is expensive apartments in Iran\u201d before placing it in escrow.<\/p>\n 4 hours agoTrump floats renaming Strait of Hormuz ‘Trump Strait,’ touts increased oil flows<\/p>\n President Donald Trump floated renaming the Strait of Hormuz after himself Tuesday during a rally in Texas, pointing to increased oil flows through the\u00a0waterway.<\/p>\n “More oil right now is flowing out of the Hormuz Strait,\u201d he told supporters.<\/p>\n \u201cWe’re thinking of renaming it the Trump Strait. Should we do it?<\/p>\n \u201cWe did that with the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America!” Trump said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe did that with a little lake, one of the Great Lakes. Lake Ontario is now Lake America,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n 6 hours agoUS Marines sharpen combat skills with martial arts training at Mideast base: CENTCOM<\/p>\n U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) showcased Marines sparring during a martial arts course in the Middle East<\/a>, highlighting how the troops maintain their close-quarters combat readiness while stationed in the region.<\/p>\n \u201cU.S. Marines spar during a Martial Arts Course at a base in the Middle East,\u201d CENTCOM<\/a> said on X.<\/p>\n \u201cTraining in hand-to-hand combat keeps warfighters’ skills sharp while deployed,\u201d the command said.\u00a0<\/p>\n 7 hours agoIsraelis vote in record numbers in first national election since the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre<\/p>\n Israelis turned out in exceptionally high numbers Tuesday for the country\u2019s first national election<\/a> since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre, with initial exit polls showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s Likud emerging as the largest party but his governing coalition falling short of a parliamentary majority, potentially opening the door to a change in leadership.<\/p>\n The projections released by Israel\u2019s<\/a> three major television networks after polls closed at 10 p.m. local time (4 p.m. ET) showed Likud winning 25 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, compared with 23 seats for former Israeli military chief Gadi Eisenkot\u2019s Yashar party in Channels 12 and 13 exit polls, and 21 seats according to Kan 11.<\/p>\n The projected parliamentary balance showed 50 seats for Netanyahu\u2019s right-wing and religious bloc, 53 for the main opposition parties and 17 for Arab parties, leaving neither major bloc with the 61 seats generally needed to form a government. <\/p>\n Although Netanyahu\u2019s<\/a> party is projected to remain the largest in parliament, his political future is far from secure. <\/p>\n The opposition parties, together with the Arab factions, would hold a combined 70 seats, although that does not mean they would necessarily agree to form a government together. <\/p>\n This is an excerpt from a report by Fox News Digital’s Efrat Lachter.<\/p>\n 7 hours agoTrump doubles down on Iran strikes, calls attack ‘one of the greatest things I ever did’<\/p>\n President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that attacking Iran<\/a> was one of the greatest things he had ever done while defending his decision to go to war with the country he described as “lunatic.”<\/p>\n “We had to stop this lunatic nation from having a nuclear weapon,” Trump<\/a> said during a rally at the Port of Corpus Christi in Texas.<\/p>\n “It’s not like, oh, gee, let’s not do it. If we did that, we might not be here right now, to be honest.<\/p>\n “But at some point in the not too distant future, really bad things would have happened,” Trump added.<\/p>\n “Somebody asked me yesterday, it’s very interesting, \u2018If you had to do it again would you have attacked Iran?\u2019<\/p>\n “I said, \u2018absolutely.\u2019<\/p>\n “I said, \u2018one of the greatest things I ever did.\u2019 Short term, short term pain,” he added.<\/p>\n 7 hours agoTrump says Iran war will end ‘very soon,’ claims US destroyed 288 fighter jets, 159 ships<\/p>\n President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the war with Iran<\/a> would end soon before claiming U.S. forces had destroyed hundreds of Iranian military aircraft and naval vessels.<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s going to end very soon,\u201d Trump said Tuesday during a rally at the Port of Corpus Christi in Texas.<\/p>\n \u201cThey have no military. They have no air force.<\/p>\n \u201cTheir navy, 159 ships on the bottom of the sea.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Sir, we’ve knocked out 159 ships.\u2019 I said, \u2018How many do they have?\u2019 159, sir.<\/p>\n \u201cWe’ve knocked out 288 jet fighters. How many do they have? So they have 288,” he said.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know where their fighters are?\u201d Trump<\/a> asked. \u201cThey’re scattered all over the runways,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n 8 hours agoTrump blasts past leaders for lacking ‘intelligence’ to confront Iran, touts ‘even greater victory’<\/p>\n President Donald Trump<\/a> said Tuesday that the United States is on the verge of victory over Iran, accusing past American leaders of lacking the courage or intelligence to confront Tehran over its nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n \u201cWe’re now in the throes of having an even greater victory against Iran and stopping them from ever having a nuclear weapon,\u201d Trump said during remarks at the Port of Corpus Christi in Texas.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd you’ve got to understand that America did not start the war with Iran. Iran<\/a> has been waging this war against America since 1979, killing many, many of our great people,” he added.<\/p>\n \u201cThey’ve killed thousands of our soldiers and wounded so many more,\u201d Trump said, referring to injuries involving \u201cthe legs, the limbs, the face.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd those people are many of them are living now, but they’re living a hard life.”<\/p>\n \u201cPast leaders should have settled this problem long ago, but they didn’t have the courage or intelligence to do it,” the president said.<\/p>\n 8 hours agoUK warns of Mideast escalation, ‘deeply unpredictable’ conditions, Iran detention risk<\/p>\n The United Kingdom<\/a> updated its travel advisory for Iran on Tuesday, warning of a high risk of sudden escalation in the Middle East and expanding its guidance to British nationals traveling in the region.<\/p>\n The British Foreign Office described the situation as \u201cdeeply unpredictable,\u201d strengthening its previous description of \u201cunpredictable.\u201d<\/p>\n “Since conflict began in early 2026, Iran<\/a> has stated its intention to target locations associated with the US and Israel, including, but not limited to, organisations, businesses, facilities, and institutions,” the advisory states.<\/p>\n The updated guidance also refers to strikes and retaliatory attacks by \u201cIran and others,\u201d rather than Iran alone.<\/p>\n The Foreign Office also reiterated its warning against all travel to Iran, urging British nationals already in the country to consider the risks of remaining.<\/p>\n \u00a0“British and British-Iranian dual nationals are at significant risk of arrest, questioning or detention,” the advisory warns, adding that having a British passport or ties to the U.K. can be grounds for detention.<\/p>\n 8 hours agoUN nuclear watchdog sounds alarm over Iran’s uranium stockpile as Tehran blocks inspectors<\/p>\n International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi warned the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that the agency cannot verify whether Iran has diverted nuclear material before urging Tehran to grant inspectors access to key nuclear facilities and stockpiles.<\/p>\n “One area of particular concern is Iran\u2019s previously declared nuclear material \u2014 which includes 440 kg of high-enriched uranium,\u201d Grossi said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Agency has been unwavering in its efforts to engage with Iran so that Iran provides the necessary information and grants IAEA inspectors access to facilities to verify the status of this material, as is required under the NPT Safeguards Agreement.”<\/p>\n “As of today, the IAEA has not been able to verify that there has been no diversion of nuclear material required to be safeguarded under Iran\u2019s CSA,” Grossi said in a statement.<\/p>\n Grossi said Iran has repeatedly refused IAEA requests to access the Isfahan Fuel Enrichment Plant, which Tehran<\/a> declared shortly before military strikes began in June 2025.<\/p>\n Grossi urged Iran to provide the information and access needed to verify its nuclear material and facilities, calling compliance with its safeguards obligations a legal requirement.<\/p>\n 9 hours agoPutin praises late supreme leader Ali Khamenei, says Russia remembers him ‘with gratitude’<\/p>\n President Vladimir Putin<\/a> on Tuesday praised the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a> as a founding pillar of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), telling delegates in Moscow that Russia remembers Iran\u2019s former supreme leader “with gratitude.”<\/p>\n “You have quite rightly mentioned the role of the late Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was indeed one of the most active participants in the establishment of our forum, and we rightly remember this with gratitude,” Putin said, according to Iranian state-run Press TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n Iran was central to the forum\u2019s origins, with the initiative first proposed in Tehran in 2001 and the organization formally established in 2008.<\/p>\n 9 hours agoRussia, Iran eye joint oil and gas projects amid push for closer energy ties<\/p>\n Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met on Tuesday on the sidelines of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) summit in Moscow to strengthen bilateral energy and economic ties.<\/p>\n \u201cThey discussed expanding political, economic, trade and energy cooperation, including joint projects in the oil and gas sectors,\u201d the Iranian government said in a post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n Discussing natural gas exports, Pezeshkian highlighted Iran\u2019s position as the world’s third-largest producer, behind the United States and Russia<\/a> and called for deeper strategic coordination.<\/p>\n “Pezeshkian emphasized that global developments necessitate joint technical-engineering cooperation and strategic governance across international energy markets,” the Iranian government<\/a> said in a later readout.<\/p>\n 10 hours agoVance warns Americans concerned about gas prices to not be beholden to Mideast leader ‘tantrums’<\/p>\n Vice President JD Vance<\/a> defended President Donald Trump’s bold midterm election year pressure on Iran’s threats in the Strait of Hormuz, acknowledging its causing higher gas prices globally, but warning the U.S. cannot be held hostage every time a Middle East leader “throws a tantrum.”<\/p>\n “I want to speak to the voters who are undecided: You’ll hear many say that gas prices are too high,” Vance told his rally in Howell, Michigan<\/a>, on Tuesday. “Ladies and gentlemen, I understand that it’s true, but the deeper truth is that the price of gas goes up each time a foreign leader in the Middle East throws a tantrum. <\/p>\n “That’s been true, by the way, since before I was alive, starting in the 1970s.<\/p>\n “But what’s different? What’s different about this country’s and this leaderships’ agenda<\/a>? <\/p>\n “And what’s different about the Democrats is that the Democrats talk about high gas prices, even though their policies have made us more vulnerable<\/a> to the foreign despots in the first place.”<\/p>\n 10 hours agoSecretary Marco Rubio traveling with Trump as national security adviser<\/p>\n Secretary of State Marco Rubio<\/a> is traveling Tuesday aboard Air Force One with President Donald Trump in his concurrent capacity as national security adviser, securing direct access to the commander-in-chief, an administration official confirmed to Fox News.<\/p>\n With Trump maintaining an active domestic<\/a> travel schedule ahead of the midterms, the transit time provides a dedicated window for high-level national security consultations. <\/p>\n “He needs time with the president on all kinds of issues,” according to a White House official. <\/p>\n “The president will be on the go, so being on the plane with him gives him a chance to talk to him about these items.”<\/p>\n The in-flight briefings come at a critical juncture for U.S. Middle East strategy. <\/p>\n Over the last 24 hours alone, the White House has confronted an escalating maritime blockade in the Strait of Hormuz marked by active Iranian mine detonations, Houthi strikes targeting Saudi Arabia\u2019s Ras Tanura refinery, and the emergency evacuation of non-essential U.S. personnel from the kingdom.<\/p>\n Fox News’ Gillian Turner contributed to this report.<\/p>\n 11 hours agoTrump touts Venezuelan oil shipments as hedge against Iran war energy squeeze<\/p>\n President Donald Trump<\/a> highlighted incoming shipments of Venezuelan crude Tuesday as a direct economic cushion against rising fuel prices spurred by the 9-month-old conflict with Iran, pointing to alternative energy imports during a campaign departure for Texas.<\/p>\n Speaking to reporters ahead of rallies alongside Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Trump praised recent surges in consumer confidence before confirming plans to showcase an arriving oil tanker carrying Venezuelan crude destined for processing at Gulf Coast facilities. <\/p>\n “We took over Venezuela very successfully, and they’ve sent me as a gift, a boatload of a million barrels of oil, and I’m giving that to the United States of America,” Trump told reporters on the tarmac<\/a> from Joint Base Andrews, framing the imports as a tangible benefit of his administration’s pressure campaign.<\/p>\n “We’re going to accept a million barrels of oil<\/a>, and I’m going to give it to you people to use it the way you want. And we’re going to have oil prices are going to be dropping very sharply.”<\/p>\n The administration has increasingly relied on Western Hemisphere energy flows to offset global supply contractions caused by maritime blockades in the Strait of Hormuz and repeated strikes by Iran-aligned proxies on regional Gulf infrastructure. <\/p>\n With domestic pump prices edging above previous-term averages just a week before the November midterms, the White House has maintained that foreign oil seizures, increased Caribbean imports, and record domestic production will neutralize temporary spikes until the Middle East war is resolved.<\/p>\n 11 hours agoNetanyahu’s ’emergency call’ in Israeli elections: ‘Higher-than-usual voter turnout in Arab sector’<\/p>\n Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> is warning about voter turnout in the elections underway Tuesday.<\/p>\n “We’re at war for our home \ud83d\udea8,” Netanyahu added in a second post. “Muslim Brotherhood supporters are raiding the polling stations and stealing the elections.<\/p>\n “Go out and vote, recover it!!”<\/p>\n Cars flying Netanyahu’s Likud party flags drove through Jerusalem blaring the Islamic call to prayer and urging supporters to cast their ballots because “Arabs are voting,” witnesses said.<\/p>\n “If we don’t wake up now, we’ll find ourselves with a government of Mansour Abbas and Ahmed Tibi,” Netanyahu wrote in a post, referring to two leading Palestinian Arab politicians in Israel.<\/p>\n Turnout reached 55.7% in the first nine hours of voting, the elections committee said, the fastest pace on record. <\/p>\n Arabs, mostly of Palestinian heritage, make up about 21% of Israel’s population of 10 million and have traditionally voted at lower rates than Jewish Israelis.<\/p>\n Tibi, a candidate from an Arab party, said strong turnout among Israel’s Arab minority would “pave the way for an alternative government and change the grave reality.”<\/p>\n Sami Abu Shehadeh, leader of the Arab Balad party, wrote on X that long lines outside polling stations should bring “pride and joy to anyone who believed in democracy.”<\/p>\n “We are receiving all these inciting messages from the petty racists, Ben-Gvir, Netanyahu, and their partners,” he added. “What are they afraid of<\/a>? This is actually an excellent sight, it is good for democracy.”<\/p>\n