Tehran says the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group relocated more than 1,000 km after being targeted with attacks
Iran claims to have forced the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group to relocate with new attacks, while Washington insists the warships remain involved in the regime-change operation against Tehran.
In a briefing on Thursday, Iranian military spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaghari claimed the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier was “targeted by drones of the naval forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps” while the warship was engaging in military action near the Strait of Hormuz.
“It, along with its accompanying destroyers, left the area and has so far moved more than 1,000 km away from the region,” the official said.
US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine provided a conflicting account, saying the strike group “has continued to provide pressure from the sea along the southeastern side of the coast and has been attriting naval capability all along the strait and up into the Arabian [Persian] Gulf at a size and scale sufficiently to address the targets required.”
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