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.
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.
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