This is what the final hours before a massive strike look like.
The State Department warned its diplomats to expect significant escalation.
US embassies from Riyadh to Kuwait City posted the same alert within hours: be ready to leave, expect airspace closures, and in Jerusalem, know where your bomb shelter is.
Inside Iran, reports describe bases, ports and even police stations emptying out, launchers vanishing into mountains.
Anthony Aguilar spent a career reading these exact signals, and his decode is chilling.
Why alerts like these only go out after word comes down from the very top.
What Iran's highway movements reveal about what Tehran already knows.
And the one aircraft whose sudden arrival gives the whole game away:
"We don't send AWACS into the region just for a chow run."
His window is the next 12 to 24 hours.
Months ago he predicted August would bring a different war... it's August 1st.
