Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claims to have fired ballistic missiles at a U.S. aircraft carrier operating in the Gulf of Oman.
According to Iran's state-run IRNA news agency on January 1 (local time), the IRGC stated that "the proud Iranian military attacked American and Zionist (Israeli) enemies," claiming that "the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln was struck by four ballistic missiles." The IRGC emphasized that it is "launching powerful attacks targeting the exhausted enemy's military forces," adding that "land and sea will become the grave of the aggressor terrorists."
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East, has not issued an official response to these claims. The U.S. military had deployed Carrier Strike Group 3, led by the USS Abraham Lincoln, and Carrier Strike Group 12, with the USS Gerald R. Ford as its flagship, to Middle Eastern waters weeks before the joint strike on Israel and Iran.