Two U.S.-Flagged Ships Pass Through Hormuz Strait as Navy Launches Operation Project Freedom
CENTCOM: “American forces are actively assisting efforts to restore transit for commercial shipping.”
At least two American-flagged commercial ships successfully sailed through the Strait of Hormuz as U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) launched operation “Project Freedom” to restore freedom of navigation through the narrow waterway.
CENTCOM on Monday morning announced that “Navy guided-missile destroyers are currently operating in the Arabian Gulf after transiting the Strait of Hormuz in support of Project Freedom.”
“American forces are actively assisting efforts to restore transit for commercial shipping,” CENTCOM posted on X. “As a first step, 2 U.S.-flagged merchant vessels have successfully transited through the Strait of Hormuz and are safely headed on their journey.”
The operation is being conducted while maintaining a U.S. blockade of Iranian ports, crippling Tehran’s oil and gas exports. “Our support for this defensive mission is essential to regional security and the global economy as we also maintain the naval blockade,” CENTCOM commander, Adm. Brad Cooper, said in a statement on Sunday.
U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers are currently operating in the Arabian Gulf after transiting the Strait of Hormuz in support of Project Freedom. American forces are actively assisting efforts to restore transit for commercial shipping. As a first step, 2 U.S.-flagged merchant… pic.twitter.com/SVDxDhK72I
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) May 4, 2026
The operation “Project Freedom” kicked off after President Trump announced a humanitarian mission to guide stranded ships and sailors through the strategic waterway.
The U.S. was acting in response to requests made by “Countries from all over the World,” he posted on Truth on Sunday, “have asked the United States if we could help free up their Ships, which are locked up in the Strait of Hormuz, on something which they have absolutely nothing to do with — They are merely neutral and innocent bystanders!”
The U.S. “will guide their Ships safely out of these restricted Waterways, so that they can freely and ably get on with their business,” the president assured.
“This process, Project Freedom, will begin Monday morning, Middle East time. I am fully aware that my Representatives are having very positive discussions with the Country of Iran, and that these discussions could lead to something very positive for all,” he added.
Totally agree with President Trump’s decision to launch Project Freedom, whose purpose is to restore freedom of navigation for the Strait of Hormuz, a vital passageway for the world economy that has been locked down by Iranian terrorism.
It is clear to me that Iran is playing… https://t.co/NGsEkTz56x
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) May 3, 2026
The operation is being conducted amid repeated Iranian threats. Blocking the Hormuz Strait is Iran’s main “tool to pressure the enemy,” the regime’s new ‘Supreme Leader,’ Mojtaba Khamenei, said in his first public statement on March 12.
With its trump card slipping away, Tehran is renewing its threats against the U.S. and has reportedly attacked a UAE-owned tanker. “Iran has threatened to attack any vessel that tries to transit the strait without its permission, and the UAE said Monday that a state-owned energy company’s vessel was targeted by drones in an “Iranian terrorist attack,” CBS News reported Monday.
🚨 JUST NOW: The US Air Force is SURGING tankers with fighter craft in the vicinity of the Strait of Hormuz while President Trump's Project Freedom commences
Iran stands no chance.
The US military is ensuring freedom of navigation! Trump to the rescue 🇺🇸pic.twitter.com/qkukilcHBd
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 4, 2026
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed it fired “warning shots” at U.S. naval ships entering the Strait on Monday, a claim CENTCOM denied.
The IRGC also relayed its threat on the Iranian state media. “This is a serious warning from the naval forces of the IRGC,” the regime-run broadcaster FARS declared. “The Strait of Hormuz remains closed, and passage through it without the permission of the Islamic Republic of Iran and outside the designated route is prohibited.”
Trump: Regime will be “blown off the face of the earth” if it attacks US ships
Amid Iranian threats, President Trump warned that the regime will be “blown off the face of the earth” if it attacks US ships.
BREAKING: President Trump sends a new warning to the Iranian regime if it attacks any U.S. vessel working to implement Project Freedom:
“They’ll be blown off the face of the earth.”
Trump tells @TreyYingst that Iran has become "much more malleable" in talks.
“We have more… pic.twitter.com/SdddxZsSu8
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 4, 2026
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Finally. Demonstrate how powerless the Iranian regime is.
Breaking news reports that US forces just sank six Iranian small boats in the Strait of Hormuz.
Democrats say the Iranians were fishing.
The Democrats have become a terrorist group.
Post-Clinton yes they have. Stealing the W’s off keyboards as they left the white house should have been a solid indicator how they should never have been allowed to govern. They’ve only gotten much worse until now they represent a clear and present danger to the US and its way of life as do their supporters (including most of my family). How do you change this without radically changing our system of government? I have no idea,
The democrats were obviously fishing as well.
I don’t think CENTCOM should deny the warning shots. Instead, they should hoist them on their own petard. Put them in a tough situation by blowing up some random strait adjacent defenses and release a statement that the strike is retaliatory for the IRGC threatened shots fired.
Hopefully they’ll protect just our ships. Let any European ships be at the mercy of the Iranians since they refuse to help.
As an aside the more and more I hear about China and its antics, such as helping the Iranians during the conflict, I’d say sink the Chinese ships in a way so as to have the Iranians blamed for it.
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