What we also need to do is to give the regulators of universities more teeth, more powers when universities fail and able to fine them.".The United States and Iran have exchanged heavy missile and drone strikes, with Tehran targeting U-S facilities in states across the Gulf on Sunday, after closing the Strait of Hormuz.Iran's Revolutionary Guards says the strait will remain closed until the U-S stop interfering in the region, but the U-S says commercial vessels continue to transit through the strait.US Ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker has warned Iran the U-S would continue to respond with 'overwhelming force' to Iranian attacks on commercial ships in the strait."President Trump, if shipping is attacked or if if the Iranians want to act belligerent, then he will respond with overwhelming force You show strength."The U-S and Iran signed an interim agreement last month that aimed to reopen the strait and end the war which began in March after a further 60 days of negotiations..The federal government says it's open to a regional security pact with Pacific Island countries.It comes a week after China conducted a nuclear capable missile test in the the South Pacific with little warning, and within hours of Australia and Fiji signing a mutual defence treaty.Solomon Islands prime minister Matthew Wale has raised the issue of a regional security agreement with the prime minister and other Pacific leaders.Speaking with ABC Insiders, Pacific Island Affairs Minister Pat Conroy says he supports a regional security agreement in response to China's actions."This would take a number of years, if the rest of the Pacific was up for it, but ultimately, it's a decision of all the Pacific leaders