{"id":239782,"date":"2026-08-07T11:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/239782\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:46:10","slug":"trump-vows-to-jail-leakers-over-reports-of-munitions-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/239782\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Vows to Jail \u2018Leakers\u2019 Over Reports of Munitions Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The war, which began on Feb. 28, <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/06\/21\/the-toll-of-the-u-s--iran-war-by-the-numbers\/\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">already cost taxpayers around $29 billion<\/a> as of May for expended munitions, equipment repairs, and other operations, although outside estimates put the broader war cost closer to $50 billion. Last month, the Trump Administration asked the Senate for $87 billion in emergency funding, including $67 billion for the Pentagon. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Senators the funding was needed to \u201crapidly replenish equipment and munitions,\u201d and included $18 billion to replace advanced Patriot interceptors, Navy Tomahawks, and Army terminal high altitude area defense (THAAD) missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The war, which began on Feb. 28, already cost taxpayers around $29 billion as of May for expended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,179,310,355],"class_list":["post-239782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-iran","tag-military","tag-news-desk","tag-overnight"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117054064925293174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}