9 Iranian naval ships have been destroyed and sunk, Trump says

President Trump also said Iran's naval headquarters has been "largely destroyed" in a different attack.

Defense NewsBeth Sullivan, J.D. Simkins2026-03-01T18:30查看原文 ↗

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Sunday that nine Iranian naval ships have been sunk as part of combat operations against Iran .

“I have just been informed that we have destroyed and sunk 9 Iranian Naval Ships, some of them relatively large and important,” Trump wrote in a post on X, adding that Iran’s naval headquarters has been “largely destroyed” in a different attack.

“We are going after the rest — They will soon be floating at the bottom of the sea, also!” Trump wrote.

U.S. Central Command officials said earlier Sunday that an Iranian Jamaran-class corvette was struck by U.S. forces at the beginning of Operation Epic Fury.

“The ship is currently sinking to the bottom of the Gulf of Oman at a Chah Bahar pier,” the statement reads. “As the president said, members of Iran’s armed forces, IRGC and police ‘must lay down your weapons.’ Abandon ship.”

Three U.S. service members have been killed in action during combat operations against Iran, CENTCOM officials announced Sunday. Five more have been listed as “seriously wounded.”

U.S. B-2 stealth bombers struck Iran’s hardened ballistic missiles with 2,000-lb. bombs Saturday night, CENTCOM announced in a separate post Sunday.

Meanwhile, the U.S. military called the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ claim that it struck the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with ballistic missiles a “lie” in a post on X on Sunday.

“The Lincoln was not hit. The missiles launched didn’t even come close,” CENTCOM said in the post. “The Lincoln continues to launch aircraft in support of CENTCOM’s relentless campaign to defend the American people by eliminating threats from the Iranian regime.”

The Lincoln carrier strike group is one of two U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups deployed to the region, alongside the Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group, as part of the largest buildup of U.S. firepower in the Middle East in a generation.

The assault by U.S. and partner forces began Saturday at 1:15 a.m., CENTCOM officials stated, with the goal of knocking out “the Iranian regime’s security apparatus, prioritizing locations that posed an imminent threat.”

Among the primary targets of the operation were Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps command and control facilities, Iranian air defense capabilities, missile and drone launch sites and military airfields, according to the statement.

The compound of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was also targeted in the operation. A senior Israeli official told Reuters that Khamenei was killed in the strike. Trump later confirmed in a Truth Social post on Saturday that Khamenei was killed in the attack, calling the moment “the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country.”

At least 201 people have been killed and more than 700 injured across Iran, according to the Iranian Red Crescent Society.

Beth Sullivan is an editor for Military Times. Previously, she worked as a staff reporter for The Daily Memphian and as an assistant editor at The Austin Chronicle.

J.D. Simkins is Editor-in-Chief of Military Times and Defense News, and a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War.

美国总统唐纳德·特朗普周日宣布，作为对伊朗作战行动的一部分，已有九艘伊朗海军舰艇被击沉。

“我刚刚得知，我们已经摧毁并击沉了9艘伊朗海军舰艇，其中一些舰艇相对较大且非常重要，”特朗普在X网站上发帖写道，并补充说，伊朗海军总部在另一次袭击中“基本被摧毁”。

“我们还会继续追捕其他人——他们很快也会沉入海底！”特朗普写道。

美国中央司令部官员周日早些时候表示，在“史诗狂怒行动”开始时，一艘伊朗贾马兰级护卫舰遭到美军袭击。

声明称：“这艘船目前正在阿曼湾的恰赫巴哈尔码头下沉。正如总统所说，伊朗武装部队、伊斯兰革命卫队和警察成员‘必须放下武器’，弃船。”

美国中央司令部官员周日宣布，三名美军士兵在对伊朗的作战行动中阵亡，另有五人“重伤”。

美国中央司令部周日在另一份声明中宣布，美国B-2隐形轰炸机于周六晚间用2000磅炸弹袭击了伊朗的加固弹道导弹。

与此同时，美国军方周日在 X 网站上发帖称，伊斯兰革命卫队声称用弹道导弹袭击了美国“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号航空母舰的说法是“谎言”。

“林肯号航母没有被击中。发射的导弹甚至都没接近目标，”中央司令部在声明中表示。“林肯号航母将继续起飞飞机，支持中央司令部为保卫美国人民、消除伊朗政权威胁而开展的不懈行动。”

林肯号航母打击群是美国部署到该地区的两支航母打击群之一，另一支是杰拉尔德·R·福特号航母打击群，这是近几十年来美国在中东地区规模最大的火力集结。

美国中央司令部官员表示，美国及其盟友部队于周六凌晨 1 点 15 分开始发动进攻，目标是摧毁“伊朗政权的安全机构，优先打击构成迫在眉睫威胁的地点”。