Trump launches 'Project Freedom' to guide ships from Iran-controlled Strait of Hormuz

Approximately 20,000 seafarers, many from India and Southeast Asia, remain stranded in Persian Gulf with depleted food, water, and supplies while witnessing military attacks.

In the shadow of a war that began in late February, tens of thousands of seafarers from across Asia find themselves caught between empires in one of the world's most consequential waterways. The United States has launched 'Project Freedom,' a military-backed humanitarian effort to guide stranded merchant vessels out of a Persian Gulf sealed by Iranian power and contested by international law. It is an old human story rendered in modern form: commerce interrupted by conflict, ordinary workers made hostage to geopolitical will, and a great power asserting that the sea must remain open — while an

Trump launches 'Project Freedom' to guide ships from Iran-controlled Strait of Hormuz

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