U.S. Defense Secretary emphasizes Project Freedom's temporary, defensive mission to protect commercial shipping from Iranian threats.

Correspondent Barak Ravid says, citing an official, that US Navy ships will be ‘in the vicinity’ to prevent a possible Iranian attack on commercial ships moving through the strait

The U.S. shot down Iranian boats in Hormuz on Monday and Iran fired missiles and drones fired at vessels in the strait.

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But secretary says the escorts are temporary, and the world should “step up.”

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the cease-fire with Iran remains in place, even as U.S. and Iranian forces exchanged fire in the Gulf...

DOD expected "some churn at the beginning" of "Project Freedom," Defense Sec. Hegseth said, referring to an effort to move ships through the Strait of Hormuz.

U.S. Defense Secretary emphasizes Project Freedom's temporary, defensive mission to protect commercial shipping from Iranian threats.

"This is a separate and distinct project," Pete Hegseth pointed out

This is a temporary mission for the United States, Pete Hegseth said

Despite U.S. efforts to force the strait open, traffic in the waterway remains just a fraction of what it used to be prior to the war.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the U.S. mission to reopen the Strait of Hormuz was a temporary one.

President Donald Trump announced the operation Sunday, saying the U.S. will "guide" ships stuck due to the Iran war through the Strait of Hormuz.

Forty-eight hours after launching an operation to escort ships through the strategic waterway, the US president suspended it, citing progress in negotiations with Iran.