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A U.S. government watchdog released its first report on the\u00a0impact of the Iran war<\/a>\u00a0on Monday, acknowledging the\u00a0military\u2019s advanced weapons shortfalls<\/a>\u00a0and offering the first public look at the damage to American aircraft, bases and diplomatic outposts in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

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Much of the information has been previously reported over the past six months, but the Pentagon\u00a0inspector general\u2019s report<\/a>\u00a0offered the fullest official accounting so far of the conflict\u2019s costs in American lives, taxpayer dollars and physical damage. It included information from the watchdogs for the Defense and State departments as well as the U.S. Agency for International Development.<\/p>\n

The report, whose publication was first reported by NBC News<\/a>, noted that the U.S. war with Iran \u201chas resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply\u201d in regard to advanced weapons. Experts have previously said it will\u00a0take about three years<\/a>\u00a0for military contractors to\u00a0replenish advanced missiles<\/a>\u00a0and defensive missile interceptors to prewar levels.<\/p>\n

The report, which covers April 1 to June 30, also acknowledged that\u00a0Iranian strikes damaged<\/a>\u00a0and destroyed hundreds of buildings and other structures at U.S. bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman and Jordan. Dozens of American aircraft and drones also were destroyed or damaged.<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Congress in late July that the war had cost $37.5 billion so far.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0costs to U.S. diplomatic facilities<\/a>, however, had not been previously publicly released. Such outposts in Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE took the brunt of the physical damage, with an estimated cost of $184 million, according to the report.<\/p>\n

The State Department reported in early June that its overall costs from the conflict came to $113 million, with nearly $80 million used to respond to contingency plans, including\u00a0evacuation expenses for U.S. personnel<\/a>and their families as well as other American citizens and eligible third-country nationals.<\/p>\n

The State Department reported that in the weeks and months after the U.S. and Israel first struck Iran on Feb. 28, the Trump administration\u00a0evacuated about 9,000 U.S. citizens<\/a>\u00a0from countries in the Middle East and Europe. Through private and commercial flights as well as land and water travel, the cost of\u00a0the department\u2019s evacuation operation<\/a>\u00a0was more than $11 million as of late June.<\/p>\n

\u201cState determined that consular officers would not be able to fully document travel itineraries required to seek reimbursement from evacuees and therefore it would be impracticable to seek reimbursement from them,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n

The majority of the evacuations were made from Israel, with Iraq and Jordan following shortly behind. While the U.S. only evacuated 1,200 Americans from the United Arab Emirates, those trips to Istanbul, Athens and Washington cost the most, at more than $4 million.<\/p>\n

The State Department reported that more than $44 billion in emergency and non-emergency military sales also were made in that span of time, with the majority of sales going to Saudi Arabia. Sales included military helicopters, munitions and munitions support as well as advanced precision weapons system.<\/p>\n

Other regional countries, including Qatar, Kuwait, UAE and Israel, also received billions in sales, as Iran retaliated against nearly every country in the region that hosted a U.S. military base.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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