{"id":135210,"date":"2026-01-15T21:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135210\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T21:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:59:07","slug":"san-diego-carrier-uss-abraham-lincoln-moving-to-mideast-amid-iran-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135210\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego carrier USS Abraham Lincoln moving to Mideast amid Iran turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/USS-Abraham-Lincoln.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/USS-Abraham-Lincoln.jpg\" alt=\"USS Abraham Lincoln\" class=\"wp-image-183219\"  \/><\/a>An F-35 Lightning II stealth jet launches from the USS Abraham Lincoln. (File photo courtesy of the Navy)<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon has ordered the San Diego-based aircraft carrier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USSLincoln\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USS Abraham Lincoln<\/a> to move to the Middle East amid  turmoil in Iran, according  to multiple media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear-powered carrier and it\u2019s accompanying warships were operating in the South China Sea when the order came.<\/p>\n<p>The strike group includes the San Diego-based guided\u2011missile destroyer USS\u00a0Spruance, and two destroyers based in Pearl Harbor, the USS\u00a0Michael Murphy and USS\u00a0Frank E. Petersen Jr.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as protests escalate in Iran over the Islamic country\u2019s moribund economy and restrictive social policies. President Trump has threatened to use military force if protesters are harmed.<\/p>\n<p>With a sizable naval force off Venezuela, there is currently no carrier group in the Mediterranean Sea or Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An F-35 Lightning II stealth jet launches from the USS Abraham Lincoln. (File photo courtesy of the Navy)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[19560,19378,9066,74,76,75,42452],"class_list":{"0":"post-135210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-aircraft-carriers","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-middle-east","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-headlines","13":"tag-san-diego-news","14":"tag-uss-abraham-lincoln"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}