AMERICAN SPY DRONE CAUGHT BY IRAN

As long as there are devices like these and nuclear technology in the world i really don`t think there can be lasting peace in the world.  get the full lowdown on the drone culled from gbooza

REPORTING FROM TEHRAN, BEIRUT AND WASHINGTON -- Iranian television aired footage 

Thursday of what it said is an American radar-evading drone that the country’s armed 

forces recovered during the weekend.

The bat-winged aircraft appeared to be in good condition, based on the footage. It was 

displayed on a platform decorated with a banner saying "We'll trample America underfoot" 

and a U.S. flag with skulls instead of stars. The authenticity of the footage could not be 

verified.

Pentagon officials refused to confirm whether the aircraft seen in the video was a U.S. 

drone. “I am not commenting at all,” said Pentagon Press Secretary George Little.

But other officials said privately that the aircraft shown on Iranian television resembled an

 RQ-170 Sentinel, the kind of drone Iran’s armed forces said Sunday had been brought 

down after it violated the country’s airspace along the eastern border.

U.S. experts were studying the Iranian video, officials said, adding that the drone the 

U.S. acknowledged it lost late last week was still not in U.S. possession.

“We haven't recovered the drone that we believe is missing,” said Navy Capt. John 

Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman.

Iran's armed forces said Sunday that their electronic warfare unit managed to take control 

of a Sentinel and steer it to the ground.  The aircraft was detected over the eastern town 

of Kashmar, about 140 miles from the border with Afghanistan, Iranian media reported.

A senior U.S. official told The Times that the drone was on a mission for the CIA, raising

 fears that its sophisticated technology could be exploited by Tehran or shared with other

 American rivals.

Iranian officials have seized on the incident to promote the prowess of their armed forces

 at a time of deepening diplomatic isolation and growing Iranian anger over the Western 

campaign to stop the country's nuclear program. The United States and its allies accuse 

Iran of working to develop an atomic weapon, a charge denied by Iran, which maintains 

its nuclear program is for civilian purposes.

Esmail Kosari, the conservative deputy speaker of the Iranian parliament, described the 

reported downing of the drone as a “blow to the arrogant power” of the U.S.

“Now the United States can see that after 31 years of sanctions after sanctions Iran has 

achieved a lot in its military industry,” Kosari said.

On Thursday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry  summoned the Swiss ambassador to protest “the

 violation of its airspace,” the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. The United

 States does not have diplomatic representation in the country, so its affairs are handled 

by the Swiss envoy.