{"id":77248,"date":"2026-05-06T09:55:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/06\/trump-project-freedom-strait-of-hormuz-ships-iran-ceasefire"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:55:50","slug":"trump-puts-project-freedom-on-hold-saying-he-hopes-to-finalise-a-deal-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77248","title":{"rendered":"Trump puts \u2018Project Freedom\u2019 on hold, saying he hopes to finalise a deal with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president says he is pausing US effort to guide stranded vessels out of the strait of Hormuz but blockade remains<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump announced he is pausing \u2018Project Freedom\u2019, the US effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/03\/trump-says-iran-has-not-yet-paid-a-big-enough-price-as-he-reviews-new-peace-proposal\">guide stranded vessels<\/a> out of the strait of Hormuz, so he can finalise a deal with Iran, but added that his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/02\/trump-us-navy-pirates-iran-blockade\">blockade of Iranian ports<\/a> would remain in place.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s abrupt change of plan was declared in a social media post, saying he was pausing the effort for \u201ca short period\u201d to give space for US efforts to finalise a settlement with Iran to end the war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/06\/trump-project-freedom-strait-of-hormuz-ships-iran-ceasefire\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president says he is pausing US effort to guide stranded vessels out of the strait of Hormuz but blockade remainsDonald Trump announced he is pausing \u2018Project Freedom\u2019, the US effort to guide stranded vessels out of the strait of Hormuz, so he can f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[448,60,3511,554,45,3510],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-pakistan","category-strait-of-hormuz","category-trump-administration","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77249,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77248\/revisions\/77249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}