"The biggest news on the Iran-America war is breaking. Iran has fired four ballistic missiles at the US warship 'USS Abraham Lincoln' stationed in the Arabian Sea!" reads sticker text on Facebook reel shared on March 4.
The Malay-language caption to the clip, which shows thick plumes of smoke rising from a burning ship, repeats the claim.
The video was shared on Facebook and Instagram in posts written in Burmese, French, Spanish and Arabic after Iran said it struck the USS Abraham Lincoln with ballistic missiles in the Gulf on March 1 (archived link).
The US Central Command refuted the claim, saying on X: "The Lincoln was not hit. The missiles launched didn't even come close" (archived link).
Iranian state TV similarly alleged on March 5 that drones fired by the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological arm of the military, had struck the aircraft carrier. It did not provide any details on the claim (archived link).
War has raged in the Middle East following the US and Israeli strikes in Iran that killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (archived link).
Tehran retaliated by launching missile and drone attacks on multiple countries hosting some of the tens of thousands of US troops, notably in the Gulf Arab states.
The circulating clip, however, does not show the USS Abraham Lincoln being struck by Iranian missiles.
A reverse image search of keyframes on Google surfaced a Facebook post sharing the same clip on June 24, 2025.
Although the Arabic-language caption says the...
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