While exiting Air Force One in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, President Donald Trump briefly responded to a shouted question from reporters asking him how negotiations with Iran were going.

"Very well," Trump said. The president did not answer any additional questions.

-ABC News' Isabella Murray

U.S. Central Command posted a statement to X on Sunday confirming that its forces will begin supporting "Project Freedom" in the Strait of Hormuz at the direction of President Donald Trump, beginning on Monday.

"Our support for this defensive mission is essential to regional security and the global economy as we also maintain the naval blockade," Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM commander, said in the statement.

The mission is intended "to restore freedom of navigation for commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz," CENTCOM said.

The U.S. military role will be to extend a U.S. defensive umbrella over ships seeking to leave or enter the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official told ABC News. Project Freedom is not about providing escorts to ships, the official said.

"U.S. military support to Project Freedom will include guided-missile destroyers, over 100 land and sea-based aircraft, multi-domain unmanned platforms and 15,000 service members," CENTCOM said in its statement.

-ABC News' Lauren Minore and Luis Martinez

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) Centre reported attacks on two cargo vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, as the U.S. Navy prepared to begin "Project Freedom" to restore shipping through the strategic waterway on Monday.

The first incident occurred 11 nautical miles west of Sirik, Iran, the UKMTO said, with a northbound bulk carrier reporting an attack by multiple small craft. All crew were reported safe and no environmental impact was reported.

Some hours later, the UKMTO said it received a report of another incident 78 nautical miles north of the Emirati port of Fujairah. A tanker reported being hit by unknown projectiles, the UKMTO said, with all crew reported safe and no environmental impact.

-ABC News' Will Gretsky

The Iranian ship that was seized by the U.S. after it tried to run the U.S. blockade has been transferred to Pakistan for repatriation to Iran, along with its crew, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command told ABC News.

"Today, U.S. forces completed the transfer of 22 crew members of M/V Touska to Pakistan for repatriation," Captain Tim Hawkins said. "Six other passengers were already transferred to a regional country for repatriation last week."

Iran state media identified the six as family members of some of the crew.

"Custody of Touska is currently being transferred back to its original ownership after the ship was intercepted and seized when attempting to violate the U.S. naval blockade against Iran last month," Hawkins said.

When the crew of the Touska ignored six hours’ worth of warnings from U.S. ships on April 19, a destroyer fired several rounds at the container ship's engine room, Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a Pentagon news conference on April 24. The ship was later boarded by U.S. Marines, who seized the ship.

-ABC News' Luis Martinez