griffin is live at the pentagon with momplet so exactly what did this iranian official say, jennifer? reporter: jon, this is the first time we ve heard an iranian leader, a commander of the armed forces taking about taking a preemptive strike. let me quotena cnn muhammad hejazi, head of the forces, he said, quote, our strategy now is if we feel our enemies want to endanger iran s national interest and want to city to do that we will ability without waiting for their actions. it was clearly designed to be a message for israel, just as those iranian destroyers who passed through the suez canal over the weekend and dock a syrian port yesterday was designed as a message, a muscle flexing exercise for the israelis. we now understand that those iranian destroyers have left that syrian port. it s not clear whether they offo whether they offloaded cargo but they are traversing back through the