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With trade through that critical waterway, the Strait of Hormuz still blocked,

President Trump tonight announcing a new plan to help guide cargo ships linked to countries

not involved in the war to safety.

Posting on social media, the president writing, quote,

For the good of Iran, the Middle East and the United States,

we have told these countries that we will guide their ships safely out of these restricted waterways

so they can freely and ably get on with their business.

Yes, it's a new operation called Operation Freedom,

though it wasn't specifically said how we're going to guide the vessels through,

and it doesn't include us sailing warships next to them or something like that.

If that's what you were picturing, it's what I was picturing.

We're specifically not going to do that.

So then it was news reports that a couple of U.S. flagged boats, big ships that had been there

since the start of the war, got out for the first time.

Well, that sounded like good news.

But then, like just a couple hours ago, a South Korean flagged ship was fired upon.

The latest news being that it was fired upon in its engine room on the port side, which would be the side facing Iran on an outbound

transit. So somebody in Iran fired on this South Korean flagged ship probably to say, how serious

are you, Trump, about this whole guiding ships out of the strait. I don't know why you're

nitpicking.

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