Happening now, breaking news going global. Defense Secretary Pete Hexas says the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports is growing,

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Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown, and you're in the situation room.

This is CNN breaking news. We begin with the breaking news. Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth says the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports is expanding.

He's describing a clear escalation as the range of the war now extends thousands of miles.

This growing blockade is also gone global.

Just this week, we seized two Iranian dark fleet ships in the Indo-Pacific region that had left Iranian ports before

the blockade went into effect. They thought they'd made it out just in time. They did not.

We seized their sanctioned ships and we will seize more. Our blockade is growing and going global.

And it comes as the U.S. makes plans if the ceasefire were to fail.

Multiple sources are telling CNN that the military is developing plans to hit Iranian forces

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