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Monday, June 01, 2026

Iranian strikes have caused greater damage to U.S. military assets in the Middle East than the Trump administration is willing to admit. Analysis by the BBC, published Monday, reveals that attacks by the Islamic Republic have cost millions of dollars in damage to at least 20, and possibly as many as 28, American military sites across eight countries in the region since Donald Trump launched his war on Iran at the end of February. Trump has repeatedly claimed that U.S. forces have "destroyed," "obliterated," and "shattered" the regime's military capabilities. The Pentagon has meanwhile tried to limit assessments of the impact on U.S. assets by pressuring Planet, a major satellite-imaging provider, to restrict public access to new images of the region.

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The BBC says it was still able to carry out its analysis by using "satellite imagery from other international providers combined with older images from Planet to track the damage caused by Iranian attacks." Pentagon officials declined to respond to the findings, for "operational security reasons."

The broadcaster lists "three state-of-the-art anti-ballistic missile batteries systems" in Jordan and the UAE among the U.S. assets that Iran has targeted over the past several months.

"The U.S. is only known to operate eight of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) batteries, which are deployed at bases around the globe and cost around $1bn to manufacture," the BBC writes. "Each battery needs a crew of about 100 troops to operate it while the interceptors it fires cost around $12.7 million per round."

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#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-06-01 08:10 AM | Reply

This stupid war to benefit Israel is reaching the $100bn milestone soon. Cost: Bibi and AIPAC bankrupting America with Islamophobia and hysterics

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-01 08:25 AM | Reply

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