According to The Wall Street Journal, the plan does not involve US Navy military escorts for merchant ships through the Strait of Hormuz, a move that could expose them to the threat of Iranian missiles, drones and mines. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has recently deployed additional naval mines in the strait, endangering commercial traffic there.
When incidents like this happen in Israel or abroad and Jews, usually visibly ultra-Orthodox, are the ones attacked, we rightly raise an outcry and define them as “antisemitic” and as “racially motivated terrorism.”
The Boeing-made KC-46 refueling aircraft, the first of six tankers purchased by the Israeli Defense Ministry from the US, will be fitted with Israeli systems and adapted to the Israeli Air Force's operational requirements.
Iran, as is its way, wants to drag things out, hoping something will happen along the way. It is willing to give up Hormuz now, and it is demanding sanctions relief now, but it wants to give up the nuclear issue only at the end, in measured doses.
US military to launch “Project Freedom” in the to escort vessels trapped in the Persian Gulf during the war out of the Strait of Hormuz. “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,” Trump wrote.
