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Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) claimed Sunday that it fired four ballistic missiles at the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) aircraft carrier, in what would represent the first direct attack on a U.S. aircraft carrier in decades if confirmed.
"The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln was attacked with four ballistic missiles," the Revolutionary Guard said in its seventh communique of the operation, carried by Tasnim News Agency.
The Revolutionary Guard said its strikes against "American-Zionist enemy targets" have entered a "new phase."
"The powerful strikes of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran against the weary military body of the enemy have entered a new phase, and land and sea will increasingly become the graveyard of terrorist aggressors," the statement said.
The claim has not been independently verified.
The Pentagon on Sunday denied Iran’s claim that the aircraft carrier had been hit.
“The Lincoln was not hit. The missiles launched didn’t even come close,” U.S. Central Command said in a post on X.
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