The US president has abruptly put ‘Project Freedom’ on hold after just two days.
US President Donald Trump has temporarily paused a military operation to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, but said the blockade of Iranian ports will “remain in full force and effect” until a final agreement with Tehran is reached.
Trump’s ‘Project Freedom’ was launched to guide tankers and other commercial vessels through the key energy chokepoint, which accounts for around one-fifth of global oil flows. Announcing the mission on Sunday, Trump described it as a humanitarian effort rather than an offensive operation.
“Based on the request of Pakistan and other countries,” as well as “great progress” in talks with Iranian representatives, Washington and Tehran have “mutually agreed” to put the ship-movement operation on hold “for a short period,” Trump abruptly announced on Truth Social two days later.
Just hours earlier, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told journalists that the original operation (Epic Fury) is over, adding: “We’re now on to this Project Freedom.”
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth also appeared to be caught off guard by the announcement. Earlier on Tuesday, he boasted at a press conference that “hundreds more ships from nations around the world are lining up to transit,” after US forces “embarrassed” Iran with the success of Project Freedom.
The now-aborted operation is the latest flashpoint between Washington and Tehran. Iran warned that any foreign military entering the strait would be targeted, insisting that safe passage through the waterway must be coordinated with Iranian forces.
US Central Command claimed on Monday that US forces destroyed several small Iranian boats that tried to interfere with the mission. Tehran rejected the claims, while Iranian media reported that Iranian forces had fired warning shots near US naval vessels.
“Project Freedom is Project Deadlock,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a post on X, warning the US to “be wary of being dragged back into a quagmire by ill-wishers.”
The Strait of Hormuz has been at the center of the crisis since the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran in late February. The US and Iran reached a fragile ceasefire in early April, but tensions have continued over maritime access, with Tehran calling Washington’s naval blockade an “act of war” and a violation of the truce.
Trump said the temporary pause in escorts is intended to give negotiators time to see whether a “complete and final agreement” could be finalized.
Would anyone believe anything from Trump? Although he says “Based on the request of Pakistan and other countries,…..” all these other countries are distancing themselves from the USA because they don’t want to be complicit with the USA’s illegal conduct. Hence the USA cannot find friendly ports to store stolen property https://wanaen.com/seized-tankers-attributed-to-iran-transferred-to-diego-garcia-military-base/
America’s dirty wars no longer work in the Middle East so the Americans are taking their filth elsewhere https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/05/06/2286701.html
There’s been a significant shift in diplomatic tone. Iran’s rhetoric has changed – they now believe they are a superpower too https://wanaen.com/trumps-backdown-from-the-freedom-project-in-the-face-of-irans-new-power-equation/
American BS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty6KHtkuAFo
Project Freedom (aka Zionist Enslavement via false freedom…) got it’s ass kicked..BADLY! But, Western MSM will NOT report on this. Two KC-135R’s shot down, and two U.S. warships damaged.
When will the morons in the U.S. finally comply with the U.S. Constitution and throw-off the reins of (J3wi$h/Zionist-imposed) tyranny?
Oh, that’s right; they’re too busy immersing themselves in video games, ball games, ‘recreational’ drugs and are now allowing themselves to undergo the start of Holodomor starvation.
When the population has been weakened enough, then the big invasion will come..from within and outside in all directions.
The Yanks who are on to this gradual Zionist Ops left the U.S. many years ago, renounced their U.S. Citizenship, and are now stable in other nations that are mostly Israeli / Mossad / Zionist-free.
We should take these same precautions of the latter seriously so that we do NOT suffer under such Talmudic Zionism and Noahide Law that calls for our deaths!
In reading the below, keep in mind that Kissinger was a rabid & rampant J3wi$h Zionist!
https://quotefancy.com/henry-kissinger-quotes
If the U.S. does not comply with Israel, the look at what has been threatened under the Samson Option.
No doubt shielded nukes are now in major U.S. cities, for yet multiple false flag events!
https://x.com/iluminatibot/status/2051436776502464545
Trump and his entire J3wi$h / Zionist Cabinet needs to be removed ASAP, Martial law declared in the U.S., and the Joint Chiefs of Staff taking over the government until a first-time ever snap election is held, with the candidates NEVER ACCEPTING MONEY FROM AIPAC, THE ADL, THE SPLC AND THE ADELSON / ROTHSCHILD FAMILIES!
The USA’s national debt is too high – it’s the highest since WW2. The USA desperately needed WW2 80 years ago to fix their debt problem back then. The only way the USA can solve their debt problem right now is to similarly start wars everywhere, to desperately manufacture problems for others and then pretend to solve those problems thus ensuring the world stumbles from crisis to crisis to crisis.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney met European and Commonwealth leaders in Armenia and declared that the rules-based international order is over — to be rebuilt out of Europe around Canada, the EU, the UK, and Australia. A rival power centre consolidating against Trump’s America. Carney appointed Louise Arbour as Canada’s Governor General — the UN war-crimes prosecutor who built the political and legal movement behind the International Criminal Court that George Soros funded and that produced Jack Smith. A Trump administration press conference on beef, cataloguing declining cattle herds, lost ranches, and the four meatpackers — half of them foreign-owned — who control 85% of US processing, tracing this cartelization back to the 1971 dismantling of Bretton Woods and linking
JBS through Lloyd’s of London to the same British Imperial system Trump just broke open at the Strait of Hormuz. (JBS N.V. As of 2025, JBS have over 250 production facilities around the world and its products reach consumers in 180 countries. J&F Investimentos is a 42% indirect shareholder in JBS S.A., which is listed on American stock markets as JBS. J&F Investimentos is wholly owned by Joesley Batista and Wesley Batista).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okdclue5Vr8
Dumb yanks are going broke. The white house can’t keep it secret forever – the extent of the damage (and therefore the cost of their stupid unnecessary war) is slowly being exposed https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/05/06/2287488.html
Sounds like Iran let the air out of Project Windbag….