US Centcom says Iran did not destroy USS Abraham Lincoln

The US military said Iran did not destroy or disable the USS Abraham Lincoln after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed it had struck the aircraft carrier with ballistic missiles in the Gulf.

US Central Command (Centcom) said the IRGC was “peddling recycled lies” about the attack.

“To be clear: the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group continues to dominate Iranian airspace from the sea,” Centcom said in a post on X, rejecting the claim that the vessel had been rendered inoperable.

The IRGC earlier said it attacked the aircraft carrier in the Gulf with four ballistic missiles.

“The land and sea will increasingly become the graveyard of the terrorist aggressors,” the IRGC said.