This post has been updated with photos of USS Abraham Lincoln sailing through the Strait of Malacca. The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (CSG) entered the Malacca Strait late Sunday local time en route to the Indian Ocean,

WASHINGTON — Abe will keep Iran honest! President Trump said he’s got an “armada” was sailing toward Iran — and he meant the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group. On Thursday, the commander-in-chief told reporters that “maybe we won’t have to use” the carrier strike group but that the US had “a lot of ships” going in Iran’s direction “just in case.

Iran unveiled a new banner over the weekend in Tehran’s Enghelab Square threatening the USS Abraham Lincoln, showing an aircraft carrier strewn with bodies and streaked with blood.

The USS Abraham Lincoln has quietly slipped through one of the world’s busiest maritime chokepoints, […]