{"id":622514,"date":"2026-05-04T07:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/622514\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T07:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:45:17","slug":"live-updates-iran-war-trump-says-us-to-start-guiding-ships-through-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/622514\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Iran war, Trump says US to start guiding ships through Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Shipping executives are expressing caution over Project Freedom, the US operation starting Monday to guide trapped neutral ships through the Strait of Hormuz.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt takes both sides to unblock \u2014 not just one,\u201d said Bj\u00f8rn H\u00f8jgaard, CEO of ship manager Anglo-Eastern. \u201cEither party can signal that they are willing to let certain ships through, but unless the other side accepts that in practice, it doesn\u2019t materially change the reality on the water.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cAnnouncements are one thing \u2014 safe and predictable passage is another.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe Chairman of Iran\u2019s parliamentary National Security Commission has said such moves \u2018will be considered a violation of the ceasefire.<\/a>\u2019 Under these circumstances we should be cautious,\u201d said Richard Hext, Chairman of the Hong Kong Shipowners Association.\n <\/p>\n

\n The stated objective<\/a> of the US operation is to \u201crestore freedom of navigation.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n In a statement, CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper said: \u201cOur support for this defensive mission is essential to regional security and the global economy as we also maintain the naval blockade.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Project Freedom involves guided-missile destroyers, more than 100 land- and sea-based aircraft and 15,000 service members.\n <\/p>\n

\n A US official told CNN the operation to guide ships through the strait is not an escort mission.\n <\/p>\n

\n It\u2019s not clear how the operation would work nor which countries the operation would help.\n <\/p>\n

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Shipping executives cautious on US plan to guide ships through Strait of Hormuz\n <\/p>\n

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Shipping executives cautious on US plan to guide ships through Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n

2:56<\/p>\n

\n Before Project Freedom was announced, a tanker was reportedly hit by unknown projectiles<\/a> in the Strait of Hormuz. According to UKMTO, all crew were reported safe.\n <\/p>\n

\n The incident underscores the risk to all vessels when transiting the critical waterway.\n <\/p>\n

\n US President Donald Trump called Project Freedom a \u201chumanitarian gesture.\u201d<\/a>\n <\/p>\n

\n Since the war broke out on February 28, hundreds of ships and an estimated 20,000 seafarers have been trapped inside the Gulf.\n <\/p>\n

\n The crisis has also created shortages of food, medical supplies and water aboard some vessels, forcing crews to ration supplies while managing fatigue and mental distress.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shipping executives are expressing caution over Project Freedom, the US operation starting Monday to guide trapped neutral ships…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,29430,100016,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-622514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-hnk","tag-intl","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}