The USS Gerald R. Ford will join another US carrier group already in the Arabian Sea as Washington continues to apply pressure on the Iranian regime over its nuclear program.
The US is preparing to send the USS Gerald R. Ford’s aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East, joining the USS Abraham Lincoln and its guided-missile destroyers in the Arabian Sea, President Donald Trump confirmed on Friday.
“It’ll be leaving very soon,” Trump told reporters without giving an exact timeline.
The deployment of a second aircraft carrier strike group to the region comes after Trump warned of “very bad” consequences if Iran did not make a deal with Washington over its nuclear program.
The Ford’s strike group is being redirected from the Caribbean, where it was deployed in October 2025 as the US built up a massive military presence in the region ahead of a raid that captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.
The Ford left port in June 2025, and its deployment has already been extended once. Its sailors had expected to return home in March, according to the New York Times, which first reported the re-deployment earlier Friday.
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