Inside ‘Project Freedom,’ Trump’s Aborted Bid to Reopen the Persian Gulf
The U.S. military extricated a pair of vessels, but triggered an escalation from Iran that reinforced Tehran’s grip on the world’s most important energy shipping lane.
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