US operation announced as ‘Project Freedom’ dramatically raises stakes in conflict
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The US has launched Donald Trump’s operation to open a route through the strait of Hormuz for hundreds of ships trapped with their crews in the Gulf, in a move that brought the region back to the brink of full-scale war as Iran sought to reassert its blockade.
The US operation, which got under way on Monday after being announced as “Project Freedom” by Trump on Sunday night on his social media site, dramatically raised the stakes in a conflict that had been in a month-long period of uneasy limbo.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/04/shipping-bosses-nervous-trump-plan-to-guide-vessels-strait-of-hormuz-iran
Author : Julian Borger in Jerusalem
Publish date : 2026-05-04 19:26:00
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