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Program killed in that attack. the blast two weeks later at a ooh rain yan enrichment plant on november 30th, 2011. the explosion on november 12th not only killed the head of iran's missile program, missiles that could strike israel but also killed 17 other members of iran's rev new revolutionary guard. the stux attack was the first clue that the covert war had been launched. a meeting took place in mid november to hone military plans in the event that this covert war requires overt action. megyn. megyn: thank you. this issue is also getting increasing attention on capitol hill as the house ap...

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 ...

Jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. jennifer. >> reporter: hi, megyn, it certainly looks like the covert war against iran has already begun and may have begun a year ago. multiple u.s. officials confirm that the drone being shown on iranian television, the sentinel, that it was the one that was lost last week. it was on a spying mission over iran, a secret spying mission that has been flown out of iran out of a western base in afghanistan for several years now. evidence of the covert war began appearing a little over a year ago. take for instance the cyber attack, 2010, one thousand cent...

Larger war in which the israelis, and possibly the americans, launch a full attack on iran." i mean, that is incredible, isn't it? >> yeah. i mean, that gets a little bit into conspiracy theorizing, because we don't even have this covert war acknowledged by the americans or the israelis, so it's difficult to say what the ultimate plan is. but, certainly, there is a fear and has been for some time that if the iranians are led to retaliate in a dramatic enough way, that that could serve as where you see an attack. >> and in that context, republican candidates like mitt romney are demanding tough...

>> i think the evidence has been growing. and that's what i tried to look at in this article. we have already had over a period of many months now, going back to last summer and before, a lot of tit for tat events. a number of iranian nuclear scientists have been mysteriously killed, assassinated, even in downtown tehran, by men on motorcycles. we have seen the iranian retaliations, which may include this embassy attack against the british, just last week. there was a bomb in bahrain that exploded right near the british embassy. the british, by the way, have been cited along with the israelis ...