US President Donald Trump has reportedly detailed how the world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, came under a coordinated 17-angle attack by Iranian armed forces in the Red Sea.

Delivering a speech at a Saudi investment forum in Miami on Friday, Trump described the moments leading up to the attack as “a serious situation” for the US Navy.

He said the naval forces were prepared, but the intensity of the attack by Iranian naval forces quickly escalated the situation.

“It was one o’clock in the morning,” Trump said, when the warship came under attack “from 17 different angles.”

“We knew we were in trouble,” the president admitted.

“They were here, they were there.

We ran for our lives, it was over,” Trump said, citing one of his Navy commanders who was on board at the time the warship came under attack.

The US Navy's most advanced and largest supercarrier, which was deployed to West Asia ahead of US-Israeli joint military aggression against Iran, was engulfed in flames earlier this month.

Following the incident, the aircraft carrier retreated from its positions to the Greek island of Crete, as the Pentagon attempted to frame the withdrawal as a mere mishap.

US officials claimed that the ship was limping for repairs after a "non-combat-related" fire broke out in the ship's main laundry spaces.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) rejected the Pentagon’s narrative as absurd, asking, "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 IRGC had already warned that the presence of the aircraft carrier in the Red Sea made it a legitimate target for the Iranian armed forces, as its presence in regional waters constitutes a direct threat to Iran.

Iran’s armed forces have previously reported successful drone and missile strikes against another US carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln.

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