Greg Myrie

They say this doesn't sound like a guarantee of safety and they weren't prepared to change their risk assessment at this point.

So we really should be looking for three things.

Number one, will large numbers of ships try to go through the strait?

Number two, will Iran keep firing on ships?

And three, can the U.S.

keep these ships safe?

Well, at this point, we can say we did see a major change in direction yesterday.

Over the past month, the U.S.

and Iranian naval blockades have kept the region very tense.

Lots of back and forth about negotiations, but relatively quiet.

Now we see the U.S.

was using this time to prepare for this operation.

And there was a lot of confusion initially yesterday.

Reports of shooting in and around the Strait of Hormuz.

of the U.S.

and commercial ships on the move.

It was hard to make sense of it.

We finally got some clarity when Admiral Brad Cooper, the head of Central Command in the Middle East, held a hastily arranged conference call with U.S.

journalists in Washington.

So he said multiple U.S.