According to CNN, a senior Pentagon official sent an email last week to a broad group of military analysts asking for new ideas on the Iran war, which has become a tactical and strategic quagmire for Donald Trump’s administration. “We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran,” the official wrote, per CNN. This is just one email from one official, of course, a tiny part of the Pentagon’s overall strategic input into the war on Iran. But it’s also a sign that the Trump administration is increasingly desperate for any way to shift the narrative with Iran. “We have a conflict with Iran and that’s working out very well,” he said in the Oval Office on Monday.