According to preliminary estimates, the damage caused by US and Israeli attacks on Iran is now estimated at around $270 billion, an Iranian government speaker said.
“One of the issues that our negotiating team is considering, and which was also discussed at the talks in Islamabad, is the issue of war reparations,” Fatemeh Mohajerani told Russia’s RIA Novosti state agency, according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency, which is close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
“Preliminary and very rough figures show that the losses currently amount to $270 billion,” she said.
Fatemeh Mohajerani suggested that the figure was not definitive and that “damage usually has to be viewed in several aspects.”
During the nearly six-week US-Israeli war with Iran, many of the country’s military and security installations have been attacked. According to the US and Israeli militaries, more than 16,000 targets were involved.
Some of Iran’s infrastructure, including steel mills, petrochemical complexes in Makhshahr and Asaloui, and bridges, have also been targeted.
Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations reportedly announced in a letter to the organisation that it also wants compensation from five Middle Eastern countries – Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Jordan – for participating in the US-Israeli war with Iran.
Iran also attacked various military and economic facilities in those countries during the war, as well as blocking the Strait of Hormuz, preventing the flow of oil, gas and other products from the Persian Gulf to world markets.
US President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire in the war with Iran on April 7, hours after threatening that “an entire civilisation will die tonight” if Iran did not show a willingness to engage in meaningful negotiations.
Talks between US and Iranian representatives in Islamabad on 11 April ended inconclusively, with the sides failing to agree on several key issues. U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said Iran’s nuclear ambitions were a major obstacle.
Iranian officials have signalled that they may be open to upcoming talks, but blamed the Americans for the breakdown of the talks.
After the US-Iran talks in Islamabad on 11-12 April, Trump announced that US military forces would “begin blocking any and all vessels attempting to enter or exit the Strait of Hormuz.”
The US Central Command later explained that it would block ships travelling to Iranian ports. However, the United States will not restrict the movement of vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz to and from ports in other countries, the command said.