good evening. i m bret baier. middle east powder keg as iran seizes control of a tanker in the gulf of imam and iranian backed proxy groups have launched 130 attacks on u.s. troops in the region as the world awaits a response. senior national correspondent hitch edson has the latest from the pentagon, good evening, rich. good evening, bret. this is the same ship that last year the u.s. justice department seized for violating sanctions. it was carrying iranian oil then and iranian state media outlet says bordering the ship today is retaliation for the u.s. seize it s a year ago example of iranian maligned activity threatening security and stability in the reasonable. we call on iran to release the tanker and the crew immediately. the pentagon says the tanker flagged to the marshall islands. for weeks iran backed houthi rebels have been attacking commercial shipping on the red sea. on tuesday they launched their largest, most complex attack yet. the pentagon says f-1s fro
red sea. voters might want to return to the trump years. bret: okay. some more breaking details from rich edson at the pentagon. reu67, what do you have? rich: bret from a u.s. defense official they are telling us more than a dozen targets involved in this attack, the united states launched f-18s from the uss eisenhower which the carrier group has been deployed to the region for some time now. most of that aircraft is returned as the pentagon is looking now to see if there is going to be any response from the houthis here. these are the details as we are getting them right now. again, more than a dozen targets. f-18sed from the u is s eisenhower. the british were also involved looking to get more details as they come, in bret. bret: yeah. and the question is whether, when the dust settles, we ll know whether this meets what the critics of the administration are hoping for, a big enough strike that sends the message to not only the houthis in yemen but, more importantly to iran