{"id":97036,"date":"2026-05-04T11:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97036\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:58:12","slug":"us-forces-launch-project-freedom-to-guide-ships-through-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97036\/","title":{"rendered":"US forces launch Project Freedom to guide ships through Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\" data-v-20113cb6=\"\">U.S. forces have launched Project Freedom to safely guide cargo ships and tankers through the Strait of Hormuz after Iran warned of attacks. President Donald Trump called the mission a &#8216;humanitarian gesture.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\" data-v-20113cb6=\"\">U.S. forces have launched &#8216;Project Freedom&#8217; in the Strait of Hormuz to safely guide stranded ships and their 20,000 crew members, amid escalating tensions with Iran. President Trump described the mission as a humanitarian effort, emphasizing the need to protect neutral vessels. However, Iran warns that any American interference in the strait&#8217;s maritime regime will be considered a ceasefire violation, further complicating the precarious geopolitical situation in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. forces have launched Project Freedom to safely guide cargo ships and tankers through the Strait of Hormuz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[25925,105,102,25924,101,1047],"class_list":{"0":"post-97036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-breaking-news-videos","9":"tag-fox-news","10":"tag-hormuz","11":"tag-news-videos","12":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","13":"tag-video"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116516192595065364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}