The USS George H.W. Bush deployed to the Middle East on March 31 along with three destroyers and around 6,000 sailors, AP reported on April 1. Meanwhile, according to an April 1 Wall Street Journal report, the United Arab Emirates is preparing to join the United States and other countries, such as those from Europe and Asia, in a potential mission to forcibly reopen the Strait of Hormuz and is seeking a U.N. Security Council mandate to approve a mission, though Abu Dhabi would reportedly be willing to support a mission even without U.N. backing.

After The Wall Street Journal's report, the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement saying that the United Arab Emirates maintains its "defensive posture." Bahrain has circulated the text of a nonbinding U.N. Security Council resolution on the protection of commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, to be implemented through "all necessary means," though Russia and/or China will likely veto it. U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on TruthSocial on April 1 that "We will consider [a ceasefire] when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear. Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages!!!" Trump previously suggested that the United States could end the war without fully reopening the Strait of Hormuz.