Iran‘s Revolutionary Guard says it has targeted a massive US aircraft carrier that President Donald Trump sent to the Middle East as part of its pressure campaign on Iran.
Iran unleashed four ballistic missiles toward USS Abraham Lincoln Sunday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp said in a statement reported by state media.
The giant warship is one of two aircraft carriers deployed to the region in recent weeks, and the only one relatively close to Iranian shores.
The attempted strike is part of Iran’s revenge attacks after the US and Israel killed Ayatollah Khamenei. The US military said it hit an Iranian ship as part of its ongoing operation.
“The ship is currently sinking to the bottom of the Gulf of Oman at a Chah Bahar pier,” the US military wrote. “As the president said, members of Iran’s armed forces, IRGC and police ‘must lay down your weapons’. Abandon ship.”