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Sunday, March 1, 2026
Iran’s Guards say they ‘struck’ US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln
Illustrative: This undated photo provided by the US Navy on April 13, 2022, shows USS Abraham Lincoln, front, and other warships sail in formation during a US-Japan bilateral exercise at the Sea of Japan. (US Navy via AP)
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say they attacked the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Gulf after US and Israeli strikes killed the country’s supreme leader.
“The US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln was struck by four ballistic missiles,” the Guards say in a statement carried by local media, warning that the “the land and sea will increasingly become the graveyard of the terrorist aggressors.”
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