I am almost afraid to post this question...What if?

Bear with me on this. The USS Enterprise, the famous "Big E" is scheduled to be decommissioned this year. It has 8 nuclear reactors on board that would require special handling and dismantling. This job is estimated to last up to eight years. The preferred method, also called “cradle to grave,” is estimated to cost between $300 million to $500 million and require 850,000 man-days of work. Though the work for this alternative is intensive, PSNS ( Puget Sound Naval Shipyard ) does not anticipate more hires as a result.

I read today that the Enterprise set sail on her final voyage. The Enterprise is heading to the Middle East on its seven-month deployment, where it will be on standby in case of conflict with Iran or piracy threats off Somalia, among other things. The ship has experience with both scenarios, participating in a retaliatory strike against Iran for mining the Arabian Gulf in 1988 and responding last year to the hijacking of a sailing vessel by Somali pirates, during which all four Americans on board were shot and killed.

What if, and bear with me here, The Enterprise is attacked and sunk off the coast of Iran, presumably by the Iranians, or in a false flag operation that is made to look like the Iranians attacked and sunk the Enterprise. Thus creating a reason to retaliate against Iran and attack the nuclear sites that many have been calling for in the government. Then the problem and cost of the dismantling would be at the bottom of the Persian Gulf and the US could justify attacking Iran and destroying the nuclear reactor sites. I am just saying, I know this is a big what if, but if something happens to the Big E, remember this post. Your thoughts on the possibility of this scenario playing out? I hope it doesn't , but what if it does?