{"id":38162,"date":"2026-08-26T13:44:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/irans-strikes-caused-billions-in-damage-to-us-intel-sites\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T13:44:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T10:14:42","slug":"irans-strikes-caused-billions-in-damage-to-us-intel-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/irans-strikes-caused-billions-in-damage-to-us-intel-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s strikes caused billions in damage to US intel. sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Citing four people with knowledge of the matter, the report said the attacks damaged buildings and intelligence-gathering equipment used by the CIA and other US spy agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The damage is expected to require billions of dollars to repair or replace, said the report.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the destruction is described as greater than any damage previously sustained by US intelligence agencies, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions in the Middle East have heightened since the US and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran in February. In response, Tehran retaliated with strikes in regional countries hosting US assets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Iran\u2019s strikes caused billions in damage to US intel. sites\" height=\"406\" src=\"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6149131.jpg\" width=\"720\"><\/p>\n<p>Iran and the US signed a memorandum of understanding in mid-June under Pakistani mediation aimed at ending their war and reaching a lasting peace agreement, according to NBC.<\/p>\n<p>Talks, however, have since broken down amid ongoing disputes over the memorandum\u2019s terms and navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical route for global energy exports.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/247257\/Iran-s-strikes-caused-billions-in-damage-to-US-intel-sites\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing four people with knowledge of the matter, the report said the attacks damaged buildings and intelligence-gathering equipment used by the CIA and other US spy agencies. The damage is expected to require billions of dollars to repair or replace, said the report. The scale of the destruction is described as greater than any damage &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}