Hm. It might be easy to dismiss this, as we’ve heard countless similar stories over the past few months, and none of them seem to have panned out - at least, not yet.

So it might be easy to dismiss it. Until we get to this:

Two aircraft carrier task forces, the Abraham Lincoln and the Peleliu, are already in the Persian Gulf. This is verifiable on the Websites of the carriers. A third task force, the Iwo Jima, was dispatched to the Gulf on August 22. This has been verified by a naval source. Two more – the Theodore Roosevelt and the Ronald Reagan – are said to be sailing to the Gulf, but I was unable to verify this from official sources. The Jerusalem Post reported this, as did at least one Egyptian newspaper cited by the Post. The Arab world is aware of all this. Western audiences are not.

DEBKAfile also reported on this in August. Five carrier groups will be in the Gulf.

The existence of an armada of this size raises an obvious question: Against which nation in the Persian Gulf is such an armada to be used? The answer is obvious: Iran.

Maybe it’s nothing. Or maybe this is your October surprise, right on schedule.