00:00Iran and the United States have again exchanged fire in the Persian Gulf, testing this nominal ceasefire in the Iran
00:07war.
00:08What we've heard from U.S. military officials is that the Iranians launched ballistic missiles targeting both Kuwait and Bahrain
00:15this morning.
00:16Now, the U.S. officials say that that fire was either intercepted or broke up over the Persian Gulf, not
00:23striking any targets.
00:24The Iranians say that they target the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain, as well as a military
00:30base in another country they didn't identify.
00:32The Iranians blame this on the Americans firing a missile into an empty oil tanker that was trying to break
00:39a U.S. blockade on Iran.
00:41Iran is trying to get all these empty oil tankers back because they're still trying to produce oil, but they're
00:47having to slow down the flow because they have nowhere to stick it.
00:50Their onshore as well as offshore facilities that have been trying to take this oil in are filling up rapidly.
00:58All this comes as the Iranians say that they have stopped negotiating with the Americans over the ongoing fighting between
01:06Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
01:08Now, U.S. President Donald Trump has insisted that these talks are going on, but two Iranian semi-official news
01:14agencies as well as one regional official say that Iran has not responded after warning over Israel threatening to bomb
01:21Beirut the other day.
01:23So all this put together shows just how tentative this ceasefire is.
01:26And while there aren't really ongoing, continuous hostilities, these individual attacks are adding up to something much greater and a
01:34wider threat to regional security.
