they may absolutely believe iran is behind this, but they're expression concern about hawkish rhetoric. they're calling for de-escalation. what are the implications here? >> i mean, look, this is not the only threat that the u.s. and the u.s. military has been talking about for weeks now. we've seen the threat ebb and flow and the engs thees go up and down. we've been traveling here in the region for about 12 days now, and during that, the general said the maritime threat had seemed to not necessarily completely go away but that it had de-escalated a bit. well now, of course, it's back to where it was in early may when we first heard the u.s. talking about these threat streams. as you know, chris, it's actually three differential threat streams they're talking about. one is the maritime one against civilian ships against these