Press TV – March 20, 2026
USS Gerald R. Ford strike Group off the coast of New Jersey. Click to enlarge
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says the abrupt withdrawal of the USS Gerald R. Ford from West Asia has laid bare the “hollowness of the arrogant powers’ material strength.”
In a statement released early on Friday, the IRGC emphasized that the abrupt retreat of the American aircraft carrier and its failure to provide military support to “tired and defeated American forces” in the region has proven the “hollowness of the arrogant powers’ material strength.”
The statement highlighted the stark contrast between the vessel’s arrival and its quiet departure.
“The dispatch of this vessel to the region with the uproar and extensive propaganda of American military officials and Western media, and its questionable exit at the peak of the war in the media silence of the arrogant American military officials, cannot hide the desperate and humiliating state of the American and Zionist warmongers,” the IRGC said.
The US military has desperately attempted to frame the retreat as the result of a mere mishap, claiming the multi-billion-dollar ship is limping to Crete for repairs after a “non-combat-related” fire broke out in the ship’s main laundry spaces.
However, the IRGC strongly mocked and cast doubt on this official narrative, pointing out the absurdity of Washington’s excuses.
“What kind of military giant is this that faces a crisis and is forced to leave the battlefield due to a fire occurring in its laundry room?” the statement asked.
US officials claim that the ship remains fully operational despite the fire leaving over 100 beds unusable and requiring more than 200 crew members to be assessed for smoke inhalation.
This adds to a humiliating string of structural failures on the US Navy’s most expensive warship, including widespread reports of clogged toilets and failing plumbing that have plagued the vessel for years and shattered troop morale during its prolonged nine-month deployment.
Yet, the IRGC statement suggests the true reason for the retreat lies in a profound fear of regional resistance.
According to the IRGC, the carrier’s diversion toward an American base and its desperate attempts to avoid navigating the Bab al-Mandab Strait — a passage controlled in effect by Yemen’s resistance forces — has raised a major question for global public opinion.
The statement noted: “Why should a 13-billion-dollar American warship be terrified of a few thousand-dollar speedboats of the Resistance forces?!”
The IRGC said this humiliating retreat is not an isolated incident, pointing out that “such a shaky and unstable situation has exactly been created in recent days for another American vessel, the USS Abraham Lincoln, in the Indian Ocean.”
“The lying US President, who claims to have destroyed the Navy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, why doesn’t he give the order for American warships to move toward the Sea of Oman and the Red Sea?” the statement read.
Giving a stern warning, the IRGC made it clear that Iranian forces remain entirely dominant and vigilant in regional waters.
“The soldiers of Islam, eager to land and deliver a hard slap to the American warship deep in the battlefield, are waiting and completely ready to show their naval surprises up close to the American Marines,” added the IRGC statement.
Iranain armed forces have been pounding the military assessts of the US and Israeli regimes since the invading coalition launched an unprovoked war of aggression against Iran on February 28.
the US seamen do not want to assist israel after 9 11
and are sabotaging the ship
Well, I reckon the girlie/boy crew members didn’t want to fight the fight with Iran and dropped nuts and set their own fires to run away lmfao.
If that US Aicraft Carrier had to retreat…
I shudder to think how long the Woyal Navy would last… (assuming it ever managed to get its vessels out of dry dock! 😏)
The USS Herald R Lord Rot Child’s retreat has laid bare the “hollowness of the arrogant powers’ material strength.”
Yes sir! And Iran will continue to humiliate these God damn assholes! They wanted war, they got war. I hope someone blows up the White Sepulcher House, the Pentacon and the headquarters of the CIA in Langley Virginia! Right after that, I hope all bullshit distribution centers throughout the world get blown to hell where these lying murderers belong.
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Aircraft carriers are sitting ducks when facing missile launching pretend enemies. Those things are hard to park . Their “captains” and admirals are of the usual , members of the tribal families that create fakery, like this so called war. A fake, pretend , charade to raise prices for basic needs of Americans.
Hmmm
My guess is that the (2) USA aircraft carriers , once they feel they are at a safe distance..will be sunk…and Iranians blamed..
…..OR a “terrorist” group will sabotage them and join the Italian navy in Davey Jones locker
Either way they will never ever enter the Strait of Hormuz.
Haaretz news said iran told trump
” move it or we will sink it”
thank god its going home the loss of life would have been devastating
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Yippee ayo!!!
Go Iran Go!
Shoot these terrorist shitheads out of the sky! You have my blessings.
Long live Iran…
…and death to the biggest God damn terrorist organization in the world!!!
On the technical side it was the Dreadnought battleship and the Gatling gun that revolutionised warfare in the 19th Century. The early 20th century saw the more sophisticated machine-guns and primitive tanks become kings of the battlefield. In the late 20th century it was the super-carrier and the main battle tank. With the US military going to war in the early 21st with the last-mentioned equipment, they find themselves at the mercy of the hypersonic missile and the cheap but deadly drone. Not looking good.
On the moral side no-one seems to be asking the question: why on earth would US Navy personnel fight and risk their lives far from home in the service of the very same people who brutally murdered their comrades on board the USS Liberty? Or maybe that very question was being asked in the mess areas of the Ford and Lincoln. That would make sense and also invite theorises into the true origins of blocked heads and a laundry-room fire.
Too bad the giant floating (barely) insane asylum that does double duty as a gay bathhouse, with Skipper Topper Bottoms stroking the helm, hasn’t gone to the bottom of the drink with all of the semen swilling sea”men” along with it. A bunch of f*cking schizos anyway, alternating between getting sodomized by a bunch of rejects, monuments of bad ideas with bad haircuts, then bombing the piss out of innocent people who were never a threat to them. They should f*cking burn…and hopefully a bunch of them did…