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IRAQ ANNOUNCES A FORCE MAJEURE ON ALL OILFIELDS OPERATED BY FOREIGN OIL COMPANIES, ACCORDING TO OIL MINISTRY SOURCES.

🇮🇷 Iran just let a handful of favored ships through the Strait of Hormuz. At least 8 vessels from India, Pakistan & Greece went through the Strait. The rest of the world’s tankers? Still blocked. Traffic down 96%. Tehran just proved who really owns the global oil lifeline. Source: Financial Times, Lloyd's List, Seasearcher

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 US faces massive daily losses in Iran war The ongoing war between the US and Iran is costing the US a fortune The US is spending some $1 billion a day on air and naval operations, with the total cost estimated at $24.4 billion since February 28

🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Iran war: Pentagon's $200B budget could run out in just five months The funds requested by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth would last roughly 160 days—or about five months, Sputnik calculates. 🔸 As of March 20, the expenditures exceeded $25.5 billion, according to the real-time Iran War Cost Tracker 🔸 Tracker bases its estimate on a Pentagon briefing: $11.3 billion for the first six days, then about $1 billion a day—roughly $11,500 per second 🔸 But the real cost may be much higher Pentagon 'has no idea of real cost' 🔶 US may have spent over $10 billion on air-defense systems in the first 48 hours, argues Jennifer Kavanagh of the Defense Priorities think tank, as quoted by The New York Times 🔶 That’s because Iran’s low‑cost, asymmetric attacks are forcing expensive defenses like THAAD (about $12.7 million per interceptor) and Patriot (about $3.7 million) to be used to shoot down drones and missiles 🔶 Three-week conflict could cost taxpayers $60–130 billion, five weeks up to $175 billion, and eight weeks around $250 billion, two anonymous US officials told The Intercept. The Pentagon "has no idea of the real cost,” one added, and the operation’s duration remains uncertain

ISRAELI DRIVERS NARROWLY ESCAPE IRANIAN MISSILE FRAGMENT BY SECONDS