{"id":568855,"date":"2026-05-06T07:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568855\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T07:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:35:10","slug":"trump-says-us-will-pause-operation-to-guide-ships-through-strait-of-hormuz-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568855\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US will pause operation to guide ships through Strait of Hormuz – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

A closer look at the paused US plan to guide ships through the straitpublished at 07:48 BST<\/p>\n

07:48 BST<\/p>\n

\"DonaldImage source, Reuters<\/p>\n

As we’ve been reporting, Trump said the US operation to guide commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz would be paused on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

“Project Freedom” was announced by the US president on Sunday, with Trump saying it was a “humanitarian gesture” to help the seafarers stuck in the Gulf.<\/p>\n

US Central Command (Centcom) said it was “essential” to regional security and the global economy.<\/p>\n

Iran responded by saying it would attack US forces if they entered the strait, with Iranian media later reporting a US warship had been hit by two missiles.<\/p>\n

This claim was denied by Centcom, which said two US-flagged merchant vessels had successfully passed the strait with the US Navy. <\/p>\n

Trump also said US forces had struck seven Iranian “small boats” he said had tried to attack commercial ships – disputed by Iran – with the US president later telling Fox News that Iran would be “blown off the face of the Earth” if it attacks US vessels. <\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Iran’s chief negotiator and parliamentary speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf accused the US of breaching the ceasefire.<\/p>\n

Later in the day, the US president announced the operation would be paused for a “short period”, saying it followed “great progress” made towards an agreement with Iran, and after a request from Pakistan, which has been acting as a mediator between the US and Iran.<\/p>\n

The US military says around 22,500 mariners on 1,550 commercial vessels are stuck in the Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A closer look at the paused US plan to guide ships through the straitpublished at 07:48 BST 07:48…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-568855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}