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Iran threatens to target USS Abraham Lincoln - TV7 Israel News 13.05.19
This is an item on Israeli TV7 news that alleges that Iran has made threats to target the USS Abraham Lincoln
From
the Daily Mail:
Iran
has aimed fire at the deployment of US military forces in the Persian
Gulf and threatened an attack on Israel if the aircraft carrier was
ever used against them.
Speaking
to reporters on Sunday the Iranian Parliament's vice-speaker Ali
Motahhari said the military forces based in the region had started a
'psychological' war in the region and warned the US against an attack
on the Middle Eastern nation.
The
comments come after the Pentagon deployed the USS Lincoln, the fifth
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier in the United States Navy, to the
Middle East in a move that officials said was to counter 'clear
indications' of threats from Iran.
In
addition to the deployment of the aircraft carrier, the country has
also sent over B-52 bombers to the area.
The
aircraft, which has at least 40 to 50 planes on it and was
commissioned in 1989, will be replacing another carrier that was
removed from the region in April.
Mr
Motahhari told FARS news agency: 'The US military forces' deployment
in the Persian Gulf is more of the nature of psychological warfare.
They are not ready for a war, specially when Israel is within our
range.'
His
comments resonate with those of the head of the Revolutionary Guard's
air force Amir Ali Hajizadeh who called the move a 'serious threat'
and said that if the US decided to make a move, Iran would be forced
to retaliate.
Speaking
to the Iranian Students' News Agency he said: 'An aircraft carrier
that has at least 40 to 50 planes on it and 6,000 forces gathered
within it was a serious threat for us in the past.
'But
now it is a target and the threats have switched to opportunities.
'If
[the Americans] make a move, we will hit them in the head.'
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