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News & Current Events Apr 15, 2026 at 6:59 AM

Iran says $270bn war loss must be compensated, as fresh talks with US loom

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Iran says $270bn war loss must be compensated, as fresh talks with US loom
Al Jazeera
Iran says $270bn war loss must be compensated, as fresh talks with US loom
Iran demands compensation for war damages caused by US and Israeli attacks on critical infrastructure.
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hawkseye17 Apr 15, 2026 +60
I highly doubt that's going to happen any time soon
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mm615657 Apr 15, 2026 +11
Passing on as a political legacy to the next administration
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ezagreb Apr 15, 2026 +5
Ever, but they have some of the world’s largest gas and oil reserve so in reality they don’t need it they just need to start selling again
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chrisni66 Apr 15, 2026 +61
A Trump never pays his debts
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artful_codger Apr 15, 2026 +56
Then Iran owes Ukraine 270 billion for the damage their drones have caused.
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HormuzVengeance Apr 15, 2026 +34
Islamic republic owes far, FAR, FAR more than that to the Iranian people whom it has brutalised, genocided, continues to occupy illegally, and has stolen from for 47 years. Iran is owed. Not islamic republic.
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Anyales Apr 15, 2026 -53
You owe the Iranian people for the 200 children you murdered mr le epic Hormuz vengeance 
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faffc260 Apr 15, 2026 +16
fine america will pay that after the thousands of iranians iran killed on purpose are compensated equally, instead of bad intel that wasn't double checked.
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Anyales Apr 15, 2026 -33
I find it staggering how people can dismiss the bombing of a primary school as bad targeting data.  Those children died for nothing, there is going to be no regime change so there is no justification 
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scrambledhelix Apr 15, 2026 +15
I find it staggering how people obsess over a single military accident while ignoring an *intentional massacre* of civilians **literally over two hundred times worse** and then clutch their pearls over people looking at them strangely for their open display of cognitive dissonance.
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Anyales Apr 15, 2026 -8
How has killing those children helped the massacre of civilians? For there to be justification it would have needed to be done with some form of positive outcome for the people of Iran. Calling my objection to the killing of 200 children "pearl clutching" is insane. 200 children under 10 died as a result of a US bomb being dropped on a school, outrage over this is not performative. I understand children being killed at school is an American tradition but for the rest of the world its pretty horrific.
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scrambledhelix Apr 15, 2026 +10
How has your sanctimonious rhetoric on Listnook helped anyone? Do the downvotes feel like they're validating your image of yourself as enlightened and righteous?
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Anyales Apr 15, 2026 +1
Listnook is a place to discuss things not a place to help anyone. Clearly some people have no moral objection to killing children because a senile orange guy has told them what to think. I cant help those people, if you are indifferent to the killing of 200 children then you have no moral compass to help.
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faffc260 Apr 15, 2026 +7
it's fine to be outraged over the death of the children over the mistake the US military made, but you should be more outraged at the thousands of iranians protesting that iran intentionally killed.
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Anyales Apr 15, 2026 +1
How does the death of those children do anything to help the people the Iranian government have killed or the people they will kill in future? Their deaths were for nothing more than a political stunt for the US. If there had been a legal invasion of Iran to remove the regime then you could reasonably argue that this was collateral for a better world. That is not what happened though and their deaths are entirely unjustifiable.
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scrambledhelix Apr 15, 2026 +2
I don't believe you're in the position of making moral judgments about anyone. Especially not on the basis of fabricated nonsense about what you assume other people are thinking. If you want to denounce people for failing to self-reflect, start with yourself.
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Anyales Apr 15, 2026 +1
I think its safe to say I will always object to the killing of innocent children. If you disagree then clearly you have a messed up moral compass its not really up for debate.
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HormuzVengeance Apr 15, 2026 +42
I’m Iranian, pal. I have been advocating against the islamic republic who has murdered thousands of Iranian children, who legalised child marriage and has engaged in the r*** of thousands of children, who gassed a girls school and murdered young girls, who employs children as soldiers, and who prostitutes children to terrorist militias. Don’t pretend to care about Iranian children.
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Anyales Apr 15, 2026 -48
Its great can be so blase that you are willing to let them pay the price while you sit in comfort. Maybe you'll even visit the country soon and would they be lucky to have tourists like you.
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barnos88 Apr 15, 2026 +10
Dictator killer trying to hustle a wanna be orange Dictator. This will never end and we are all proper fucked now.
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Adventurous_Bell9672 Apr 15, 2026 +5
thats so unrealistic they are not even going to get a penny , it will be a win fro them if the sanctions are lifted
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beginner75 Apr 15, 2026 +10
Lack of self awareness is a mental condition.
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Smok3dSalmon Apr 16, 2026 +2
How many boats need to pay the $1M tool to recoup the 270bn? Is my math off or is it really 270k boats? That would take forever… Edit: 9 years
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Valharja Apr 18, 2026 +2
Agreed, pay Ukraine 270 billion for war damage on behalf of Iran for the destruction caused by their weapons. Everyone is even
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Sueti_Bartox Apr 15, 2026 +5
Loser pays. Who's it going to be?
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FrankSwimGood Apr 15, 2026 +30
American taxpayers. Like always.
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Critical_Opening_526 Apr 15, 2026 +7
We'll just have Mexico finish paying for the wall.
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shiano0815 Apr 15, 2026 -2
Oh no worries about the wall. Soon Mexico will build it and pay for it on it's own to stop US Americans looking for a better life.
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CheeseEveryMeal Apr 15, 2026 +1
I love how Germans just say things...Anyways off to my job in California where 60% of my clients speak Spanish or Cantonese!
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pirategirljess Apr 15, 2026 -4
Wait till next president. Maybe they'll airlift in more pallets of money while iran kills their own people for protesting while chanting death to America.
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ICEpear8472 Apr 15, 2026 +1
In this case no one has lost though. At least not in the sense that they are unwilling or unable to continue the conflict. So some kind of compromise has to be found.
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faffc260 Apr 15, 2026 +1
and neither side of the table are known for compromise, so escalation we go!
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Onepackfatness Apr 15, 2026 +2
First war where the alleged “loser” is dictating terms of a negotiation
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Own-Professor-6157 Apr 17, 2026 +1
Iran owes the US billions for all the bombs we dropped on them. That shit's not c****, pay up
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YakResident_3069 Apr 15, 2026 +1
Well they can goddamn bill me. - Ripley
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nthpwr Apr 15, 2026 +1
another quarter trillion added to the national debt in record time
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Drak_is_Right Apr 15, 2026 -2
2m per tanker. 100 tankers a day. Take about 4 years of tolls to pay for this. Add on a 5th year for other Gulf countries. If Iran is willing to give up their nuclear ambitions, then IMO letting them toll for 4 years sounds about as good of a deal as there is going to be. Probably royally screws Dubai. Will see if the emirate is permanently broken from this.
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Strong_Grocery3872 Apr 15, 2026
So twice the global daily use of oil flows through daily? Right.
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Capital-Control308 Apr 15, 2026
That is a bargain. I believe the Wall Street Journal or some paper just came out and said this war is going to cost over $1trillion
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Snoutysensations Apr 15, 2026 -6
From a PURELY financial perspective, that might be cheaper than fighting an all-out war.  Gulf War 2 vs Iraq and Afghanistan ended up costing well over 1.4 trillion USD.   Of course, money isn't everything, and I highly doubt any normal American president would pay that much to end the war.   Would Trump?  Maybe, if he got a commission or was allowed to steer reconstruction contracts to family businesses.  Hard to tell how he makes decisions nowadays.  
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ModernSimian Apr 15, 2026 +7
That 1.4T was paid to military contractors and all sorts of domestic and allied parties driving economic activity. It's quite different than writing your opponent a check.
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Rustic_gan123 Apr 15, 2026 +6
By giving Iran this money, it will almost certainly spend it on military infrastructure and proxies as it has done before, making the next war a matter of time...
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iuuznxr Apr 15, 2026 -26
US and Israel have hit some expensive decoys and road paintings.
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fiddledik Apr 15, 2026 +19
If you fall for propaganda and fake videos
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blackcain Apr 15, 2026 -14
I think asking for that is reasonable and withdraw everything. I dont think they will be able to get anything like making Israel stop. Israel will be extremely unhappy if Iran got paid off and will put a lot of pressure on the federal govt. Israel thinks they can outlast the Iranians.
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ICEpear8472 Apr 15, 2026 +1
One question will be can Iran outlast the willingness of the US to continue the conflict? At some point congressional approval will probably be needed and it is questionable if anyone wants to have another potential forever war by the time the midterm elections come around later this year. I doubt that will result in the US outright paying money to Iran but maybe they give up their opposition to the Hormuz Strait toll. That toll in a sense would even make US oil more competitive agains arab oil.
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