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Iran continues, USS Ford's deployment may soon surpass the record set during the Vietnam War, before it returns to Norfolk, home to the world's biggest naval base. Top Navy officials have predicted that
impacted living costs globally. [](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/12/g-s1-117045/hezbollah-commander-lebanon-israel) ### [Middle East conflict](https://www.npr.org/series/1205445976/middle-east-crisis) ### [A Hezbollah
conflict – [had concluded](/news/2026/5/6/iran-war-day-68-trump-talks-about-progress-in-talks-rubio-says-war-over) as its objectives had been achieved. Washington now prefers “the path of peace”, Rubio said. On the same day, US President Donald Trump announced that the US [military operation](/news/2026/5/5/centcom-says-project-freedom-has-just-2
ship in the strait of Hormuz](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/91bcf284703b995bc6c13638ee0c2005e9fadda6/0_0_4405_2937/master/4405.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) Climbing oil prices and disruption of supplies caused by the war in Iran is likely to have a severe knock-on effect on the NHS. Photograph
conflict began in late February, an estimated 20,000 sailors have been trapped in the Gulf, unable to pass through the strait of Hormuz into the open ocean. Concerns about their physical and mental health