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Iran's Revolutionary Guards Claimed to Have Targeted USS Abraham Lincoln

Published March 1, 2026, 17:02
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Claimed to Have Targeted USS Abraham Lincoln

Iran's Revolutionary Guards reported that they targeted the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, according to state media. The USS Lincoln was targeted with four ballistic missiles on Sunday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran said in a statement broadcast by state media. The USS Lincoln is one of two US aircraft carriers deployed in the region in recent weeks and the only one relatively close to Iranian shores. Meanwhile, the UAE reported that an Iranian drone attack caused a fire at a naval base in Abu Dhabi. A drone attack by Iran on a naval base in Abu Dhabi caused a fire, but without casualties, the Ministry of Defense said on Sunday, as Iran attacked the Gulf for the second day after a wave of US and Israeli attacks. MSC, a shipping company, urged all ships in the Gulf to head to “safe haven.”