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View all search resultsUSS Lincoln aircraft carrier 'not hit' in Iranian missile attack: Pentagon
"The Lincoln was not hit. The missiles launched didn’t even come close," US Central Command said on X.
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The U.S. Navy Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge sail alongside the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea May 17, 2019. Picture taken May 17, 2019. (Reuters/US Navy/Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Michael Singley/Handout )
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he Pentagon on Sunday denied Iran's claim to have struck the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with ballistic missiles in the Gulf.
"The Lincoln was not hit. The missiles launched didn’t even come close," US Central Command said on X.
The US Central Command also said in a statement that three US service members have been killed in action as part of US military operations against Iran.
Five others were seriously wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury, it said.
In a sign of widening turmoil, Israel's ambulance service said nine people were killed by a missile strike in the town of Beit Shemesh, the United Arab Emirates said Iranian attacks killed three people and Kuwait reported one dead in Iranian raids.
The Israeli military said that over the past day Israeli planes had conducted strikes to open the "path to Tehran", and the majority of aerial defence systems in western and central Iran had been dismantled.
It added: "Ali Khamenei was targeted in a precise, large-scale operation carried out by the Israeli Air Force, guided by accurate IDF intelligence, while he was in his central leadership compound in the heart of Tehran, where he was together with additional senior officials".
Israeli military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said many targets remained, including sites of military‑industrial production. "We have the capabilities and the targets to keep going on for as long as necessary," he said.
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