Lise Doucette

military taking out non-essential personnel from Al Udeid base in Qatar, the U.S.

's biggest military base.

So everyone is thinking, is it going to happen or is it not?

Yes, all those steps for the last two days.

First of all, telling U.S.

citizens who are in Iran to leave, then the U.S.

pulling its troops out of the Al Udeid base, followed by the British.

Last year when Iran retaliated for the U.S.

strike, it was the Al Udeid base which came under attack.

He is said to have been presented with a range of options.

We don't know what they are.

We can only speculate.

But could it be symbolic, something which doesn't cause a lot of damage but sends a very strong signal and is a warning salvo?

Is it something which goes to the heart of the regime and actually threatens those who are in power?

So in other words, a message to the leadership.

Is it even more blistering?

Is it a huge salvo?

hitting, for example, the assets, the bases of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

They are the most formidable of forces in the Islamic Republic.

There is a range of options for the biggest military in the world.