Two months into the war with Iran, the Trump administration moved Monday to break Tehran’s grip on the world’s most important oil shipping lane, sending U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers through the Strait of Hormuz and announcing ‘Project Freedom,’ an operation aimed at guiding stranded commercial vessels out of the Gulf. U.S. Central Command confirmed that two U.S.-flagged merchant ships successfully transited the strait as the destroyers operated in the Arabian Gulf, the first American commercial vessels to do so since Iran effectively…
Rate This Article
