Breaking: Iran claims to have downed a US drone
Iran claims to have downed a US RQ-170 drone. It is threatening to respond 'outside our borders.' Iran's military said on Sunday it had shot down a US reconnaissance drone aircraft in eastern Iran, a military source told state television.What could go wrong?
"Iran's military has downed an intruding RQ-170 American drone in eastern Iran," Iran's Arabic-language Al Alam state television network quoted the unnamed source as saying.
"The spy drone, which has been downed with little damage, was seized by the Iranian armed forces."
The source said Iran's response to the downed US drone's violation of its airspace will not be limited to the country's borders.
"The Iranian military's response to the American spy drone's violation of our airspace will not be limited to Iran's borders any more," Iran's Arabic language Al Alam television quoted the military source as saying, without giving details.
Iran said in July it had shot down an unmanned US spy plane over the holy city of Qom, near its Fordu nuclear site.
Labels: Iranian nuclear threat, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:20 PM
3 Comments:
Hmmm....This is bad and calls for action....Obama might send in his lawyers now.
Shot down but there's very little damage?
Proof or it didn't happen.
Looks like U.S. Gov has confirmed the downed drone.
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