來源：中國日報(bào)雙語新聞

美國國防部代理審計(jì)長朱爾斯·赫斯特12日說，美國上周在對伊朗軍事行動中花費(fèi)約110億美元。這是美國政府首次公開估算戰(zhàn)事成本。

The US spent about $11 billion last week on the Iran war, a Pentagon official said Thursday, offering the first public estimate of the conflict's cost — and one Democratic lawmaker insists is much higher.

據(jù)美國《政治報(bào)》網(wǎng)站報(bào)道，赫斯特當(dāng)天在首都華盛頓一次防務(wù)會議上披露了這一“大概數(shù)字”。他同時(shí)表示，國防部審計(jì)長辦公室正為申請追加預(yù)算準(zhǔn)備一個(gè)更具體數(shù)字，計(jì)劃數(shù)天內(nèi)呈報(bào)白宮和國會。

Jules Hurst III, the Defense Department’s acting comptroller, said the figure was a “ballpark number” during a defense summit in Washington. His office is working on a more comprehensive figure for a supplemental budget request, he said, which the Pentagon plans to submit to the White House and Congress in the coming days.

報(bào)道稱，110億美元幾乎夠造一艘福特級航母。

That total, for comparison, is nearly enough to build a new naval warship, such as the Ford-class aircraft carrier.

五角大樓先前已向國會議員披露彈藥消耗和飛行費(fèi)用等初步估算成本。一些議員基于他們與政府官員的溝通預(yù)計(jì)，相關(guān)新增預(yù)算至少達(dá)500億美元。這一數(shù)字尚未經(jīng)白宮或五角大樓確認(rèn)。

The Pentagon has given lawmakers preliminary estimates of operational costs, such as munitions expenditures and flight costs, he said, declining to go into specifics.

Lawmakers have said they expect the Iran supplemental request to reach at least $50 billion, based on their conversations with administration officials. The White House and Pentagon have not confirmed that number.

官方數(shù)字之外，外部分析師就伊朗戰(zhàn)事成本給出不同數(shù)據(jù)。美以伊沖突14日將進(jìn)入第三周。美國戰(zhàn)略與國際問題研究中心估算，戰(zhàn)事爆發(fā)后的頭100小時(shí)內(nèi)，空中與海上打擊成本約37億美元。保守派智庫美國企業(yè)研究所則認(rèn)為行動迄今為止的成本在112億至145億美元之間。

Outside analysts have offered varying estimates on the expense of Operation Epic Fury, which enters its third week on Saturday. An analysis from the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and International Security put the cost of the first 100 hours of air and naval strikes at $3.7 billion. The conservative American Enterprise Institute has calculated the operational costs so far at between $11.2 billion and $14.5 billion.

然而，國會參議院撥款委員會的克里斯·孔斯等民主黨人質(zhì)疑，真實(shí)數(shù)字可能更高?？姿狗Q，不清楚政府估算的數(shù)字是否包括船只、飛機(jī)、燃料、人員時(shí)間耗費(fèi)等所有行動成本。美國政府今后打算向國會通報(bào)的花銷數(shù)字理應(yīng)“包括幾個(gè)月的準(zhǔn)備和部署、恢復(fù)彈藥儲備以及行動成本”。

Senator Chris Coons, ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee's defense panel, was among the Democrats who doubted that figure was high enough.

"I don't know whether that also includes all the operational costs of the ships, planes, fuel, staff time," he said. "If they were to come back to us and say, 'This is how much we have spent on this operation,' it would have to include months of preparation and deployment, as well as munition stockpile restoration, magazine refilling, as well as operating costs."

報(bào)道稱，美國政府暫未就何時(shí)結(jié)束戰(zhàn)事設(shè)定日期。美國總統(tǒng)特朗普先前稱，行動可能持續(xù)四周或更長。美國國防部長赫格塞思則拒絕明確任務(wù)時(shí)間表。

The administration hasn't set a firm end date for military operations in Iran. Trump has said the operation could last for four weeks or more, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has refused to place a timeline on the missions.