{"id":52935,"date":"2026-03-02T08:32:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=52935"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:33:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:33:02","slug":"iran-targets-uss-abraham-lincoln-in-revenge-strikes-after-ayatollah-khamenei-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=52935","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Iran targets USS Abraham Lincoln in revenge strikes after Ayatollah Khamenei killing<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52916\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-02-at-7.29.28-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-02-at-7.29.28-AM.png 590w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-02-at-7.29.28-AM-300x246.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/topic\/iran\">Iran<\/a>&#8216;s Revolutionary Guard says it has targeted a massive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/topic\/us\">US<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/topic\/aircraft-carrier\">aircraft carrier<\/a>\u00a0that President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0sent to the Middle East as part of its pressure campaign on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Iran unleashed four ballistic missiles toward USS Abraham Lincoln Sunday, Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp said in a statement reported by state media.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The attempted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/topic\/strike\">strike<\/a>\u00a0is part of Iran\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ship is currently sinking to the bottom of the Gulf of Oman at a Chah Bahar pier,&#8221; the US military wrote. &#8220;As the president said, members of Iran&#8217;s armed forces, IRGC and police &#8216;must lay down your weapons&#8217;. Abandon ship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/bulletin\/news\/iran-uss-abraham-lincoln-attacked-aircraft-carrier-b2929733.html\">https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/bulletin\/news\/iran-uss-abraham-lincoln-attacked-aircraft-carrier-b2929733.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}