The semiofficial Fars News Agency, which has close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), claimed that the missile attack had “forc[ed] the American naval fleet to change position.”
There was no immediate response from US Central Command (CENTCOM), which has taken to social media in the past to dispute Iranian claims to have struck the Lincoln and other US assets.
In the Oval Office Tuesday, President Trump told reporters that Iran had “shot 100 missiles at one of our aircraft carriers, one of the biggest ships in the world, actually.