I think that the Iranians are getting more conceited and they have begun firing missiles once again at commercial ships using the Straits of Hormuz near to Oman side. The Iranian leaderships are very confident (or over-confident?) that neither a nuclear bomb nor US ground troops will be deployed against them hence it is time to play tough ball against the US and assert their claim over control of all shipping in the Straits of Hormuz. I hope that the they are right and don't make a fatal mistake here thinking that they had Donald Trump and the US cornered and at their mercy. 

Of course, Donald Trump had made a strategic blunder by assassinating the senior leaders of Iran and then waiting for an eventual coup among its citizens to topple the entire Iranian government. The war started by Donald Trump achieved virtually nothing for the US and