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The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has already cost the U.S. up to $100 billion, the Trump administration has internally estimated — over three times higher than the Trump administration’s public estimates of the price tag.

Citing six people familiar with internal estimates, including three U.S. officials, NBC reports that the Pentagon has estimated that the costs of the historically unpopular war fall between $80 billion and $100 billion when additional operational costs and the price to replace destroyed aircraft and other equipment is factored in.

Rebuilding the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) base in Bahrain, for instance, could cost nearly $1 billion after Iranian strikes earlier this year caused extensive damage to the facilities. The base serves as the Navy’s headquarters in the Middle East, and the facilities housing the headquarters as well as piers, warehouses, and military housing require hundreds of millions of dollars in repairs, sources said.

These costs may increase as Iran has now restarted attacks on U.S. military sites across the Middle East in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s unilateral declaration that the ceasefire is over.

Just two weeks ago, however, Office of Management and........

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