The Iranian Army claimed on Wednesday that it has once again launched a cruise missile attack against the U. S. aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which is operating in the Arabian Sea.

According to a statement from the Iranian Army's Public Relations Department, reported by the Fars news agency, cruise missiles were fired at the U. S. aircraft carrier "with the ship as the target.

" An Iranian Navy commander stated, as reported by Fars, that "the performance and movements" of the U. S. aircraft carrier are "constantly monitored.

" "As soon as the hostile fleet is within the range of the missile systems, it will be targeted by the devastating attacks of the Iranian Navy," he warned. On March 1, the U. S.

Central Command stated that the USS Abraham Lincoln "was not hit" by four Iranian missiles, as had been reported at that time by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps through Iranian official media. The USS Abraham Lincoln is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the Nimitz class, sailing with its strike group, which includes three destroyers equipped with missiles for land attack.