US president gave no details on how operation would work as Iran says it will attack any armed force entering waterway
The US has launched an operation to “guide” ships trapped in the Gulf by the Iran war through a southern route of the strait of Hormuz, even as Tehran insists that any such transits will have to be coordinated with its armed forces.
The scheme was announced as “Project Freedom” on Sunday night by Donald Trump on his social media page, where he portrayed it as a humanitarian gesture to help crews on hundreds of ships which have been unable to leave the Gulf since the war began.
Continue reading...This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by Julian Borger in Jerusalem.
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