# Iran war, month seven News · Heat 1.2 / 10 · 9 shows · 1h 36m airtime The war with Iran, launched in March 2026, is nearly seven months old. The Congressional Budget Office puts its cost at $38 billion, strikes this month targeted vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, and Houthis now control a key Bab al-Mandab island. Iran's proposal, sent through Qatari mediators, offered a seven-week cessation of US and Israeli hostilities including Lebanon; Trump rejected a seven-day pause tied to lifting the blockade and unfreezing billions, and Tehran says it awaits a formal rejection. Reporting has turned to Iran's squeeze: it has exhausted the 90 million barrels it moved over the summer, the rial hit a record low, inflation is at 89 percent, and the oil minister resigned. Trump says no new strikes before… Page: https://boilpoints.com/point/iran_war_month_seven_2705121994 ## Segments - [The Daily Show: Ears Edition](https://boilpoints.com/u/thedailyshowearsedition), 2026-09-18, 4:11 to 8:42: **Cites the $38 billion CBO war estimate**. Covers the Iran war at nearly seven months: the $38 billion CBO estimate, record diesel prices, weekend strikes on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, and Houthi threats to the Bab al-Mandab Strait. New angle: The Congressional Budget Office estimates the Iran war has cost $38 billion; Houthis now control a key Bab al-Mandab island. - [The Daily Show: Ears Edition](https://boilpoints.com/u/thedailyshowearsedition), 2026-09-19, 25:48 to 30:21: **Tallies the war's price tag and strait threats**. Kosta tallies the war's price tag: a $38 billion CBO estimate, record diesel prices, weekend strikes on Hormuz shipping, and Houthi threats to a second strait. - [Global News Podcast](https://boilpoints.com/u/globalnewspodcast), 2026-09-26, 6:12 to 8:34: **Adds the Qatari channel for Iran's plan**. Adds the channel and the terms of Iran's Hormuz proposal: the foreign minister says the seven-day plan went to Washington through Qatari mediators, and that Iran wants assets unfrozen, the blockade lifted and a ceasefire that includes Lebanon. New angle: Iran's seven-day Hormuz plan was conveyed to the US through Qatari mediators. - [Global News Podcast](https://boilpoints.com/u/globalnewspodcast), 2026-09-27, 8:06 to 12:05: **Adds the terms of Iran's rejected proposal**. Adds the terms of the Iranian proposal Trump turned down: a week to reopen Hormuz, an end to oil sanctions, unfrozen assets, and a seven-week halt to US and Israeli hostilities including Lebanon. Rob Malley calls the rejection preordained and says Washington now wants a nuclear concession up front. New angle: Iran's rejected proposal offered a seven-week cessation of US and Israeli hostilities, including in Lebanon. - [The Headlines](https://boilpoints.com/u/theheadlines), 2026-09-28, 3:10 to 3:53: **Adds Tehran's wait for an official rejection**. Adds Iran's side of the rejection: the foreign minister says Tehran is still waiting for an official rejection from mediators, citing a history of contradictory U.S. messaging. Also covers the thwarted plot at RAF Fairford, the base used for U.S. strikes on Iran. New angle: Iran's foreign minister says Iran is waiting for an official rejection from mediators, citing contradictory U.S. messaging. - [Up First](https://boilpoints.com/u/upfirst), 2026-09-28, 2:18 to 5:45: **Reports Trump rejecting the ceasefire offer**. Reports from Dubai that Trump rejected Iran's seven-day ceasefire offer, which required lifting the naval blockade and unfreezing billions; adds Kepler flow data and allied support for Saudi Arabia. New angle: Trump rejected Iran's offer of a seven-day pause in exchange for lifting the blockade and unfreezing billions. - [Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar](https://boilpoints.com/u/breakingpointswithkrystalandsaagar), 2026-09-28, 17:43 to 20:39: **Plays Araghchi on doomsday war readiness**. Plays Araghchi saying Iran is fully prepared for a doomsday war and no longer trusts US diplomacy, citing US attacks during 2025 and 2026 negotiations and a deal violated two weeks after signing. Also flags a Journal report that Trump expects to resume bombing after the midterms. New angle: Araghchi says the US attacked Iran during negotiations in 2025 and again in 2026, and violated a deal two weeks after signing it. - [Morning Wire](https://boilpoints.com/u/morningwire), 2026-09-29, 15:03 to 17:03: **Adds Iran's two weeks of income left**. Coates says the blockade has forced Iran back to talks with Trump officials in New York, and adds the economic clock: Iran is out of the 90 million barrels it moved over the summer and has about two weeks of income left, with the rial past 2.4 million to the dollar. New angle: Iran is out of the 90 million barrels it moved over the summer and has about two weeks of income left. - [Morning Wire](https://boilpoints.com/u/morningwire), 2026-09-29, 17:03 to 17:40: **Puts numbers on Iran's economic squeeze**. Coates puts numbers on Iran's economic squeeze: Hormuz flow at about 15 million barrels a day against a normal 20 million, and the rial past 2.4 million to the dollar, up from 1.3 million at the start of the year. - [The Dan Bongino Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/thedanbonginoshow), 2026-09-30, 5:05 to 6:30: **Replays a Hannity hit for the war case**. Plays back a Hannity hit to relitigate the case for the war: the nuclear threat, cyber attacks on the grid, and lethal plotting, with the Archduke Ferdinand analogy. It stays inside the argument for the strike, adding no new development. - [The Dan Bongino Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/thedanbonginoshow), 2026-09-30, 6:30 to 13:09: **Argues Iran is undeterred by deterrence**. Bongino's case for the war: Iran is undeterred by mutually assured destruction, cyber warfare is getting cheap with AI, and the risk of inaction was grave. Argument and framing, not a new development in the war. - [Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar](https://boilpoints.com/u/breakingpointswithkrystalandsaagar), 2026-09-30, 31:51 to 37:31: **Cites the rial's record low against the dollar**. Puts the rial's record low at 2.5 million to the dollar, per NewsNation, and argues currency collapse and near-normal Hormuz flows still do not add up to a strategy to win the war; rationing, they say, lets Iran outlast its adversaries. New angle: Iran's rial hit a record low of 2.5 million to the dollar, per NewsNation. - [The Dan Bongino Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/thedanbonginoshow), 2026-10-03, 36:24 to 38:05: **Plays Trump's Strait of Hormuz oil claim**. Plays a clip of Trump claiming the U.S. pulled more oil out of the Strait of Hormuz in the last couple of days than at any point in history, and argues the Iranians are losing the war, with even the New York Times conceding it. New angle: Trump says the U.S. took more oil out of the Strait of Hormuz in recent days than at any point in history. - [Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar](https://boilpoints.com/u/breakingpointswithkrystalandsaagar), 2026-10-05, 20:16 to 26:25: **Turns to Iran's economic crisis at home**. Turns to Iran's home front: the top security official's warning of a dire economic crisis, the accelerating rial slide, the oil minister's resignation, and private-sector workers quitting over unlivable salaries. New angle: Iran's top security official warned of a dire economic crisis on Saturday; the oil minister resigned. - [Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar](https://boilpoints.com/u/breakingpointswithkrystalandsaagar), 2026-10-05, 26:25 to 27:27: **Adds the oil minister succession detail**. Adds the succession detail to the oil minister's resignation: the head of the National Iranian Oil Company takes the post, and the minister had tried to quit before and was refused. The rest is gasoline and diesel prices and a detour into the midterms. New angle: The head of the National Iranian Oil Company is now Iran's oil minister. - [Ruthless Podcast](https://boilpoints.com/u/ruthlesspodcast), 2026-10-06, 30:20 to 39:56: **Pairs the Iran crisis with Hormuz flow data**. Picks up the New York Times report on Iran's economic crisis and pairs it with bank estimates that Hormuz oil flow is back to 98 percent of pre-war levels, arguing the squeeze on Tehran is the intended end of the war. New angle: Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan put Hormuz oil flow at 98 percent of pre-war levels. - [The Dan Bongino Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/thedanbonginoshow), 2026-10-07, 36:11 to 39:49: **Plays the Iranian threat over inflation data**. Plays a translated clip of an Iranian economic police official threatening to arrest sites that publish inflation data, and cites a tweet saying Gulf oil exports are back near pre-war levels. The economic-crisis warning is already on the record; the crackdown threat is not. New angle: An Iranian police official threatened to arrest sites publishing government inflation and economic data. - [Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar](https://boilpoints.com/u/breakingpointswithkrystalandsaagar), 2026-10-09, 28:27 to 55:32: **Adds Iran's 89 percent inflation**. Pape argues the Roosevelt deployment is a gift to Tehran and lays out three clocks: military capability, the depleted Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and Iranian economic pressure. He adds that the blockade has pushed Iran's inflation to 89 percent and that Iran has struck more ships in the last seven days than in any seven-day stretch of the war. New angle: The US blockade has pushed Iran's inflation rate to 89 percent. - [The Fox News Rundown](https://boilpoints.com/u/thefoxnewsrundown), 2026-10-17, 14:09 to 16:36: **Reports Trump's pause until the November elections**. Griffin reports from the Pentagon beat: more than 400 ships have crossed Hormuz since last week under the U.S. blockade, and Trump has told advisers he will not order new strikes before the November 3 elections while the Pentagon prepares to resume combat operations. New angle: Trump says he will not order new strikes on Iran until after the November 3 elections; the Pentagon is reportedly preparing to resume combat operations. - [Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar](https://boilpoints.com/u/breakingpointswithkrystalandsaagar), 2026-10-26, 40:59 to 46:17: **Traces the $500 million figure to an FDD estimate**. Brings on an oil analyst who walks through Iran's overland export routes and the blockade's bite. He calls the White House's $500 million-a-day loss figure fabricated, traces it to a Foundation for Defense of Democracies estimate of $435 million, and says Iran sold at about $100 a barrel through the war, so the pain is only now arriving. New angle: The White House's $500 million-a-day Iran loss figure traces to an FDD estimate of $435 million, $139 million of it oil. ## Top comments - Alex (@alex): The $38 billion CBO estimate was new to me. Would love a deeper segment on that.