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Today, the US launched Project Freedom, deploying 15,000 service members and over 100 aircraft to escort stranded commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. The first two US-flagged merchant tankers were successfully escorted this morning. However, Iran struck the UAE's Fujairah energy hub and a UAE oil tanker and damaged residential areas in Oman. US forces destroyed six Iranian small boats and intercepted multiple missiles and drones. Tehran claimed to have struck a US warship, a claim the Pentagon flatly dismissed.
Diplomatically, the two sides remain deadlocked. Trump rejected Iran's latest 14-point peace proposal, which sought an end to the blockade of Iran's ports in exchange for reopening the Strait.
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