U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that the United States has destroyed nine Iranian warships as part of its operation against the Islamic Republic. "I have just been informed that we have destroyed and sunk nine Iranian warships, some of them relatively large and important. We are going after the rest," he said on his Truth Social network. Trump stated that in another attack, the headquarters of the Iranian Navy was destroyed and added sarcastically that "otherwise, their Navy is doing very well." These statements by the U.S. president came on the same day that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran claimed that its missiles hit the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, which was denied by the U.S. Army Central Command (Centcom). So far, the United States has reported the death of at least three U.S. military personnel since the start of 'Operation Epic Fury' on Saturday, a series of joint U.S. and Israeli attacks against Iran, where the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has been in power since 1989, and much of the Islamic Republic's military leadership were killed. Iran has vowed to avenge Khamenei's death and, to date, has attacked Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait, among other U.S. allies, where the country maintains military bases. The Islamic Republic, going through its most complex moment since its founding in 1979, is also rushing to find a successor to Khamenei and appointed a triumvirate to pilot the transition. Trump, who is at his private residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, announced the launch of this operation in the early hours of Saturday, whose objective is to overthrow the Iranian regime, even though Washington and Tehran were maintaining negotiations for a new nuclear pact.
