Overview
- Project Freedom, which Trump unveiled Sunday, is set to begin Monday morning local time to guide stranded commercial vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz.
- U.S. Central Command said it will back the effort with 15,000 personnel and more than 100 aircraft, ships, and drones, and it will keep enforcing the naval blockade of Iranian ports.
- Hours after Trump’s comments, the UK Maritime Trade Operations agency reported a tanker hit by unknown projectiles 78 nautical miles north of Fujairah, with the crew safe.
- Tehran says it is reviewing a U.S. reply to its 14‑point proposal that ties reopening Hormuz to lifting the blockade and ending wider hostilities, while Trump has signaled the plan is likely unacceptable.
- The disruption has trapped hundreds of ships and about 20,000 seafarers and pushed up energy prices, and U.S. officials say enforcement actions have redirected roughly 49 vessels since mid‑April.