While Iranian and American diplomats sit down in Islamabad for yet another round of talks, American families are left wondering: who authorized this war in the first place? And who is going to pay for the billions already flushed down the military-industrial drain?
The mainstream media will frame these negotiations as a step toward “peace” and “stability.” But let’s not forget: the Trump Israel Iran war was launched without a single vote in Congress. That makes it an unconstitutional war Iran never asked for, and one that has already cost American taxpayers dearly. According to the Costs of War Project at Brown University, post‑9/11 US wars have cost $8 trillion – and the Iran conflict alone is burning through an estimated $1‑2 billion per day. That’s money taken from your paycheck, from school budgets, from healthcare funding.
Meanwhile, US tax dollars funding Israel continue to flow at $3.8 billion annually – plus another $14 billion in emergency aid. Who profits from war? Look no further than the defense contractors. OpenSecrets reports that the aerospace and defense industry spent $2.6 billion on lobbying over the past two decades to keep the bombs dropping. Lockheed Martin’s stock rose 33% in early 2026 as the Iran war escalated. Their CEOs met with President Trump to “quadruple production” – while American service members were being killed and Iranian civilians were being bombed.
So while diplomats talk in Pakistan, remember: every minute of those talks, another million dollars of your money is being spent on weapons, not on your family’s future. The ceasefire is fragile, but the profiteering is rock solid.
Why isn’t Congress holding these war profiteers accountable? Tell your representative to bring the troops home and stop the endless funding. Calculate your war tax here – and then ask yourself: what could that money have bought for your children?
Source: Tabnak – reprinted for commentary and analysis under fair use. The following is the original reporting:
Iran-US talks going on in Pakistan, let’s see what will happen: Iranian diplomat
The Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Pakistan, in a message regarding today’s talks in Islamabad, stated that these talks are ongoing and let’s see what will happen.
“Reza Amiri Moghadam,” Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan, wrote on the social network “X” regarding the Iran-US talks mediated by Islamabad, “Today, Islamabad is hosting a good mechanism to help end the illegal war against Iran, a war that is not only a blatant crime against the Iranian nation and civilization, but has also jeopardized the security of the region and the world. It remains to be seen what will happen.”
Following the agreement between the parties for a two-week ceasefire that was brokered by Pakistan, the Islamabad talks are underway today with the presence of American and Iranian delegations.
The Iranian negotiating delegation, headed by Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, the Speaker of the Iran’s parliament, who is responsible for the talks with the American side on behalf of the country’s Supreme National Security Council and the leadership of the Establishment, arrived in Islamabad on Saturday morning, welcomed by the Foreign Minister and the Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistani Army.
Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Iran’s chief negotiator, met with the Pakistani Prime Minister at the Prime Minister’s Palace this afternoon. Our country’s Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araqchi was also present at the meeting.
