🖋 Mehrnoush Pourziai BBC in Washington

While assessments of the costs of an Iran–U.S. war are still ongoing, American media have covered the consequences of this conflict in two separate reports. One of these reports examines new dimensions of the $3 billion in damage inflicted on the U.S. air fleet, and the other, through an exclusive release of messages exchanged during Iran’s naval blockade, sheds light on tensions in the passage of ships in the Persian Gulf and shows how the crews of commercial vessels have been caught between the conflicting warnings from Tehran and Washington.

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