Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it fired four ballistic missiles at the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed on Sunday that it fired four ballistic missiles at the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) aircraft carrier – a claim that, if confirmed, would mark the first direct attack on a US aircraft carrier in decades, writes turkiyetoday.com.
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln/PHOTO:X
According to the seventh statement of the operation, taken over by the Tasnim agency, “the American aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln was attacked with four ballistic missiles.”
In the same message, the IRGC announced that strikes against what it called “American-Zionist targets” had entered a “new phase.”
“The heavy strikes of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran against the enemy's exhausted military corps have entered a new stage, and the land and sea will increasingly become the graveyard of terrorist aggressors,” the statement said.
The claims have not been independently confirmed by US authorities, and so far there is no official information on possible damage or casualties.
The message from Tehran
Amid these statements, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said the country's armed forces would continue to act “strongly” to destroy enemy bases and “frustrate the enemies as always”.
In a televised intervention broadcast on Sunday, Pezeshkian also announced that a temporary Governing Council, of which he is a member, had officially begun its work – a signal that a new decision-making architecture is being configured in Tehran at a critical time.
The statements come in an already tense regional context, where any naval or air incident risks triggering a dangerous spiral. For now, the information regarding the alleged attack on the American aircraft carrier remains at the level of the statements made by the Iranian side, without an independent confirmation.
