The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the war with Iran has cost the Pentagon roughly $38 billion as of Aug. 1, a nonpartisan accounting that comes in below the administration’s own public figures and has only deepened the confusion over how much the six-month conflict has actually cost.

Two deadly US strikes on Iran during the opening salvo of the war, including one that hit an elementary school, may have been war crimes, a United Nations investigation concluded in a new report.

President Trump says he’s nearing a make-or-break call on Iran: “I have a big decision coming up. Do I want to go in and annihilate them … or do I not? Anything could happen with me,” he told Axios Thursday.

A United Nations fact-finding mission said there was evidence to believe that the U.S. committed war crimes during the Iran war, lending credibility to Tehran’s similar claims.

Despite the ongoing war and threats exchanged between Washington and Tehran, the United States has approved visas for senior Iranian officials, including President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, to attend next week’s United Nations General Assembly in New York.

An automated hourly monitor flagged new developments: UN-backed experts cite possible US war crimes in Iran.