U.S. Navy Enters Gulf as 'Project Freedom' Tests Iran's Grip on Hormuz

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…