Roger Griffiths

That seems like a bit of pre-positioning on their part, possibly, to try to break out of the blockade.

On the other hand, the Americans have indicated that they've deployed

Their untested hypersonic missiles, Central Command said those missiles are going into the region in order to provide greater strike depth into Iran.

The president has supposedly been briefed on a kind of strike package that would not be his strum and drang of destroying Iranian civilization, but instead—

but nonetheless not insignificant attacks on Iranian bridges and infrastructure.

So it seems like both sides are contemplating plan B actively.

What do you give the potential weighting of that scenario, a plan B scenario where one or both sides decides this is enough, the situation is intransigent, and we're going to act?

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I'm Roger Griffiths.