Jennifer Parker

So all of this could be contributing to it.

But again, the concern comes from just the, not the breach of the ceasefire, because that's a consistent trend, but the intensity of these attacks now across the Gulf region from Iran and the capability that means that they still have.

Yes.

And in fact, that US Naval Base is the last base I worked at when I was serving in the Australian Navy.

It is an important naval base.

It's the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet.

Now, how many US personnel are really working there now, 102 days into this war?

or is probably questionable, but it's certainly a symbolic strike from Iran.

It was, that naval base was in fact attacked by Iran in the first 24 hours of this conflict, but hasn't been during the ceasefire.

So a number of significant developments.

It's clear that President Trump does want this peace deal.

I mean, it's clear that the US don't want to return to the intensity of fighting that was occurring in March and early April.

In fact, we've seen the commander-in-chief

of Central Command, who is the commander of the US forces in the region, come out and say that the strikes that the US undertook around the coastal cities and Kesham Island in Iran this morning were self-defense strikes in response to the Apache and basically implied that they would be limited, that the US did not intend to go any further.

Now, whether that remains their position, though, after Iranian strikes on what looks to be Kuwait, which Iran has struck Kuwait a couple of times during this ceasefire, the US base in Jordan.

Now, if that is true, that is significant because Jordan hasn't been struck since the early days of this conflict.

And then again, Bahrain.

Whether that forces the US to now rethink their approach in terms of their limits and strikes, only time will tell.

But

But if it does, then we're seeing really this conflict potentially returning to that high intensity we saw in March.