Everyone read this week's wave of American refueling aircraft into the region as the setup for a weekend escalation.
Karen Kwiatkowski offered a darker possibility: the tankers may be replacements, covering for aircraft damaged or destroyed at their bases, because the signs of hidden hurt keep stacking up.
Commercial satellite imagery of US positions is suddenly blurred and delayed, she says, and Iranian English language news sites have been made unreachable.
Her rule from past rounds of this war is blunt: "We're being damaged more than what they're admitting to."
Then the stakes on the next rung.
She echoed Tehran's warning that striking Iran's power grid brings the same to the Gulf, and in a 120 degree summer that means no water, no air conditioning, and no easy way out for millions.
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