USS Abraham Lincoln 'targeted with ballistic missiles' after Iran's Supreme Leader killed

Revenge attack on the US sees Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claim they attacked the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Gulf with ballistic missiles

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say they have attacked the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Gulf following strikes that killed the country’s supreme leader.

"The US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln was struck by four ballistic missiles," the Guards said in a statement carried by local media, warning that "the land and sea will increasingly become the graveyard of the terrorist aggressors."

Authorities in the US have not confirmed the claim of the alleged strike.

CENTCOM, the US Central Command, has said in a 'fact check' that The Lincoln "was not hit" and has slammed the claim as a "lie".

The statement on X reads: "Iran’s IRGC claims to have struck USS Abraham Lincoln with ballistic missiles. 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."

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