and remained imminent. now as the u.s.s. abraham lincoln strike group moves to the persian gulf in response to that threat the ambassador to the u.k. said the move was a serious miscalculation claiming the u.s. was trying to get iran into an unnecessary war. just in the last day the german government has suspending training of iraqi soldiers, the british government has opened a special crisis center while the oil giant exxon announced it is withdrawing all u.s. employees from basra and u.s. embassy has withdrawn all its non-essential staff. the last two days has seen a series of provocative events with drone attacks that have been blamed on iran and oil tankers in the persian gulf blamed on iran. those resulted in serious damage to the vessels. as you pointed out today.