The price per SMS in Kazakhstan was about 15 roubles (18p; 30 US cents), but each SMS from Iran cost 49 roubles. Min used up the entire tracking budget meant for all the eagles.
So. 14 eagles. One cost 3.3x as much, and spent the entire tracking budget meant for all the eagles? Even if we’re generous and say half the path was backlogged for a ‘summer’ of six months, they had a remaining budget for… 1.4 months. 
