U.S. President Donald Trump introduced Sunday that 9 Iranian naval ships have been sunk as a part of fight operations in opposition to Iran.
“I’ve simply been knowledgeable that we’ve got destroyed and sunk 9 Iranian Naval Ships, a few of them comparatively giant and vital,” Trump wrote in a publish on X, including that Iran’s naval headquarters has been “largely destroyed” in a special assault.
“We’re going after the remainder — They’ll quickly be floating on the backside of the ocean, additionally!” Trump wrote.
U.S. Central Command officers stated earlier Sunday that an Iranian Jamaran-class corvette was struck by U.S. forces at the start of Operation Epic Fury.
“The ship is at present sinking to the underside of the Gulf of Oman at a Chah Bahar pier,” the assertion reads. “Because the president stated, members of Iran’s armed forces, IRGC and police ‘should lay down your weapons.’ Abandon ship.”
Three U.S. service members have been killed in motion throughout fight operations in opposition to Iran, CENTCOM officers introduced Sunday. 5 extra have been listed as “severely wounded.”
U.S. B-2 stealth bombers struck Iran’s hardened ballistic missiles with 2,000-lb. bombs Saturday night time, CENTCOM introduced in a separate publish Sunday.
In the meantime, the U.S. navy referred to as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ declare that it struck the plane service USS Abraham Lincoln with ballistic missiles a “lie” in a publish on X on Sunday.
“The Lincoln was not hit. The missiles launched didn’t even come shut,” CENTCOM stated within the publish. “The Lincoln continues to launch plane in help of CENTCOM’s relentless marketing campaign to defend the American folks by eliminating threats from the Iranian regime.”
The Lincoln service strike group is considered one of two U.S. plane service strike teams deployed to the area, alongside the Gerald R. Ford service strike group, as a part of the most important buildup of U.S. firepower within the Center East in a technology.
The assault by U.S. and associate forces started Saturday at 1:15 a.m., CENTCOM officers said, with the purpose of knocking out “the Iranian regime’s safety equipment, prioritizing places that posed an imminent menace.”
Among the many main targets of the operation had been Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps command and management services, Iranian air protection capabilities, missile and drone launch websites and navy airfields, in keeping with the assertion.
The compound of Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was additionally focused within the operation. A senior Israeli official informed Reuters that Khamenei was killed within the strike. Trump later confirmed in a Reality Social publish on Saturday that Khamenei was killed within the assault, calling the second “the one biggest probability for the Iranian folks to take again their Nation.”
No less than 201 folks have been killed and greater than 700 injured throughout Iran, in keeping with the Iranian Pink Crescent Society.
Beth Sullivan is an editor for Navy Occasions. Beforehand, she labored as a employees reporter for The Day by day Memphian and as an assistant editor at The Austin Chronicle.
J.D. Simkins is the manager editor of Navy Occasions and Protection Information, and a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq Warfare.
