Good evening. Welcome to the CNN Global Report War with Iran. We begin tonight with breaking news in this new video of what the Pentagon says are strikes on multiple Iranian naval vessels, including 16 mine layers near the Strait of Hormuz.

CNN is reporting that Iran has begun laying mines in the strait.

That's according to two people familiar with U.S. intelligence reporting on the issue.

The video released a few hours after President Trump posted on social media,

quote, if for any reason mines were placed and they are not removed forthwith,

the military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before.

The chokehold that Iran continues to have over the Strait of Hormuz

sent the average price of gas here in the U.S. to $3.54 a gallon.

That's up 56 cents from before the war. Now, earlier today, the Pentagon

announced this would be the most intense day of strikes inside Iran. There was worth their words.

That seemed to stand in contrast with President Trump's pronouncement last night that the war,

or as he called it, excurs would be over a quote very soon.

Our own Fred Plankin reporting from inside Tehran felt that intensity firsthand.

Okay, we're hearing jets overhead.

There's anti-aircraft car going up.

It told us we get to get out of here as fast as possible.

Fred and his team are okay. We'll hear from him in a moment. This all happening as Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee emerged from a classified briefing today

sounding alarm bells about the administration's potential plan for sending in U.S. troops

on the ground in Iran. White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt was pressed on that.

The president has talked about this repeatedly. Wisely, he does not rule options out as commander-in-chief,

so again, I would hesitate to confirm anything that a Democrat on Capitol Hill says right now about

the president's thinking. Well, it's not just Democrats. Many Americans, of all political stripes, have taken some

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