{"id":73047,"date":"2026-05-04T13:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/donald-trump-sends-warships-to-break-irans-strait-of-hormuz-blockade\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:55:40","slug":"donald-trump-sends-warships-to-break-irans-strait-of-hormuz-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/donald-trump-sends-warships-to-break-irans-strait-of-hormuz-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump sends warships to break Iran\u2019s strait of Hormuz blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US operation announced as \u2018Project Freedom\u2019 dramatically raises stakes in conflict<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/may\/04\/iran-war-live-updates-trump-hormuz-us-operation-tanker-strikes\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US has launched Donald Trump\u2019s operation to open a route through the strait of Hormuz for hundreds of ships trapped with their crews in the Gulf, in a move that brought the region back to the brink of full-scale war as Iran sought to reassert its blockade.<\/p>\n<p>The US operation, which got under way on Monday after being announced as \u201cProject Freedom\u201d by Trump on Sunday night on his social media site, dramatically raised the stakes in a conflict that had been in a month-long period of uneasy limbo.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/04\/shipping-bosses-nervous-trump-plan-to-guide-vessels-strait-of-hormuz-iran\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US operation announced as \u2018Project Freedom\u2019 dramatically raises stakes in conflict Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates The US has launched Donald Trump\u2019s operation to open a route through the strait of Hormuz for hundreds of ships trapped with their crews in the Gulf, in a move that brought the region back to the brink &#8230; <a title=\"Donald Trump sends warships to break Iran\u2019s strait of Hormuz blockade\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/donald-trump-sends-warships-to-break-irans-strait-of-hormuz-blockade\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Donald Trump sends warships to break Iran\u2019s strait of Hormuz blockade\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}