Iran says struck US aircraft carrier Lincoln, American report says threat foiled
India Today
While the Iranian Navy claimed that it used advanced missiles and drones to target the US vessel, forcing it to retract, the US forces said that they fired at a ship approaching the aircraft carrier, without specifying further details.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has claimed it carried out a missile and drone strike against the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, allegedly damaging the vessel and forcing it to retreat from regional waters. The US has not confirmed the claim and says its naval forces instead responded to a threatening approach by an Iranian vessel, according to a CBS News report.
According to Iranian state media outlet Press TV, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy launched a "precision operation" targeting the carrier while it was operating in waters near the Sea of Oman.
Iranian officials said the attack involved advanced missiles and drones that struck the vessel about 340 kilometers from Iran’s maritime borders.
In a statement carried by Press TV and attributed to Iran’s Central Headquarters of the Holy Prophet, the IRGC said the strike rendered the carrier non-operational and compelled the strike group to withdraw from the area at high speed.
Iranian authorities framed the operation as part of Tehran’s effort to defend its sovereignty and deter foreign military pressure in the region.
The carrier, a nuclear-powered Nimitz-class vessel that forms part of a US carrier strike group, has been deployed to support American military operations across the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific.
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