{"id":97694,"date":"2026-05-04T19:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97694\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:26:13","slug":"trump-launches-project-freedom-in-strait-of-hormuz-as-iran-warns-of-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97694\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump launches \u2018Project Freedom\u2019 in Strait of Hormuz as Iran warns of escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\" data-v-20113cb6=\"\">Fox News national correspondent Bryan Llenas joins \u2018The Faulkner Focus\u2019 to report on President Donald Trump\u2019s \u2018Project Freedom\u2019 initiative to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz as Iran makes new threats amid mounting economic pressure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\" data-v-20113cb6=\"\">The US Navy initiates &#8216;Project Freedom&#8217; to safely escort merchant vessels through the crucial Strait of Hormuz following heightened tensions with Iran. President Donald Trump emphasizes this humanitarian mission aims to free up innocent nations, warning of forceful intervention if progress is hampered. This comes as Iran faces significant economic pressure from US sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox News national correspondent Bryan Llenas joins \u2018The Faulkner Focus\u2019 to report on President Donald Trump\u2019s \u2018Project Freedom\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[25925,105,102,25924,101,1047],"class_list":{"0":"post-97694","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\/116517954455801624","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97694","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=97694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}