Project Freedom was over before it started. On Sunday night, President Donald Trump announced the U.S. military initiative to guide ships out of the Persian Gulf, where they have been trapped since the U.S.-Iranian war closed the Strait of Hormuz a month ago. On Tuesday night, Trump declared that Project Freedom was "paused" and the U.S. would keep up its blockade of Iranian ports.
The next morning, Trump confusingly wrote that the blockade will be lifted if "Iran agrees to give what has been agreed to, which is, perhaps, a big assumption," and threatened bombing "at a much higher level and intensity than it was before" if the deal falls through.
