outside the pentagon asking whether war with iran has sort of already begun. has it? >> reporter: well, certainly the covert war appears to have. fox news has learned that in early november there was a meeting a high-level meeting at centcom headquarters in tampa dealing with a possible military plan, honing those plans in case the u.s. gets dragged into a military strike on iran's nuclear facilities. high-level u.s. intelligence officials were present at that meeting. but if you just look back at the series of explosions that have taken place in iran in the last year alone you have more than a dozen explosions at the homes of or outside the cars of iran's top nuclear scientists. the head of the iranian nuclear program was wounded earlier this year. you also have the net worm that was released out last year. that took out 1,000 centrifuges at natanz