Sunday March 1, 2026
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By Idorenyin UMOREN
Private Investigator/Security Evaluator
With agency reports
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, IRGC, said on Sunday, March 1 , 2026, that they attacked the United States, US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Gulf, stepping up retaliatory strikes after the US and Israeli strikes killed the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In its statement, the IRGC said the strike was part of its response to recent developments and warned that further losses would be inflicted on what it described as the Islamic Republic’s enemies, both on land and at sea, The Caspian Post reports.
“The US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln was struck by four ballistic missiles,” the Guards said in a statement carried by Iranian state media.
The Mehr News Agency, which is a semi-official news agency sponsored by the government of Iran, said in a post on X, “Iran targets USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier with 4 ballistic missiles.”
However, the US Central Command rejected the claim and said it’s a lie.
“The Lincoln was not hit. The missiles launched didn’t even come close. The Lincoln continues to launch aircraft in support of CENTCOM’s relentless campaign to defend the American people by eliminating threats from the Iranian regime,” CENTCOM said in a post on X while sharing photographs of the carrier.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) also warned that “the land and sea will increasingly become the graveyard of the terrorist aggressors.”
USS Abraham Lincoln is the fifth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier in the US Navy. Lincoln includes the latest F-35 stealth jets, capable of evading enemy radar.
The strike group also has three destroyers loaded with Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles, and is normally accompanied by a nuclear-powered submarine, which fires the same weapon.
The US has not yet responded to Iran’s claim of the missile attack on the carrier.
Iran’s Guards Say They ‘Struck’ US Aircraft Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, US Says It's A 'Lie'
