{"id":199529,"date":"2026-03-01T17:50:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199529\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T17:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T17:50:25","slug":"iranian-missiles-targeting-uss-abraham-lincoln-didnt-come-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199529\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian missiles targeting USS Abraham Lincoln ‘didn’t come close’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"F-18<\/a>F-18 Super Hornets prepare to launch from the USS Abraham Lincoln. (Photo courtesy of Central Command)<\/p>\n

The U.S. military on Sunday denied Iranian claims that it hit the San Diego-based USS Abraham Lincoln<\/a>, saying the missiles \u201cdidn\u2019t even come close.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a statement saying the giant warship was struck by four ballistic missiles. But the Pentagon quickly labled that \u201ca lie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lincoln was not hit. The missiles launched didn\u2019t even come close,\u201d Central Command<\/a> said in a post on X. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lincoln continues to launch aircraft in support of CENTCOM\u2019s relentless campaign to defend the American people by eliminating threats from the Iranian regime.\u201d<\/p>\n

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and its escorting destroyers are operating in the northern Arabian Sea off Oman, launching strikes under Operation Epic Fury in an effort to topple the Iranian government.<\/p>\n

While the Lincoln was not hit, Central Command reported that three U.S. service members have been killed in action and five are seriously wounded. No further details were provided.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation is fluid, so out of respect for the families, we will withhold additional information, including the identities of our fallen warriors, until 24 hours after next of kin have been notified,\u201d according to a statement.<\/p>\n

The operation that began Saturday has killed Iran\u2019s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had ruled the Islamic nation since 1989.<\/p>\n

President Trump has called for Iranians to seize control of their country now that Khamenei is gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"F-18 Super Hornets prepare to launch from the USS Abraham Lincoln. (Photo courtesy of Central Command) The U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[19560,19378,92799,92800,74,76,75,42452],"class_list":["post-199529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-aircraft-carriers","tag-iran","tag-missiles","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-uss-abraham-lincoln"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199529","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=199529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}