{"id":432920,"date":"2026-05-09T05:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/432920\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:43:13","slug":"donald-trump-us-will-start-new-hormuz-operation-if-iran-talks-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/432920\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump: US will start new Hormuz operation if Iran talks fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-895590\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> told reporters on Saturday that the United States would initiate renewed operations in the Strait of Hormuz if peace talks with Iran fail to move forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;We may go back to Project Freedom if things don&#8217;t happen,&#8221; said Trump, &#8220;but it would be &#8216;Project Freedom Plus,&#8217; meaning Project Freedom plus other things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Trump did not elaborate on what elements may be added to Project Freedom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Trump added that Pakistan had asked the US &#8220;not to do&#8221; Project Freedom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">On Tuesday, Trump announced that he would pause Operation Project Freedom, which was initiated to guide ships through the Strait under US military escort.<\/p>\n<p>According to an NBC News report on Thursday, pressure from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-895397\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi Arabia<\/a> also played a role in Trump\u2019s decision to pause the operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Also on Saturday, a reporter asked Trump if he thought Iran was &#8220;slow-rolling&#8221; talks, to which the President replied, &#8220;We&#8217;ll find out soon enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, US forces disabled two Iranian-flagged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-895576\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">oil tankers<\/a> attempting to violate the US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz by firing precision munitions into their smokestacks, US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Friday, saying the vessels were &#8220;no longer transiting to Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The ships had attempted to enter an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman when US forces disabled them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">On Thursday, the US also carried out retaliatory strikes on Iranian military facilities after Iran launched missile and drone attacks on US ships in the region, CENTCOM confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;US forces intercepted unprovoked Iranian attacks and responded with self-defense strikes as US Navy guided-missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman,&#8221; wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-895532\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CENTCOM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>James Genn and Reuters contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump told reporters on Saturday that the United States would initiate renewed operations in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,42,87,43,201224,338,114994,40,38,41,39,2586],"class_list":["post-432920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-news","tag-operation-project-freedom","tag-pakistan","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}